Re: [exim] $interface_address, was: Paging Marc Perkel: rDN…

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] $interface_address, was: Paging Marc Perkel: rDNS on junkemailfilter.com checking host(s)
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Jakob Hirsch wrote:

> I'd say so. There were some people on the list stumbling over that, so
> it seems to be not that obvious. Probably even in detail, like "It is
> not set on outgoing connections, as Exim does not know the address the
> OS will choose."


But it *is* set on outgoing connections - to the value it had when the
message was received!

Maybe $interface_address and $interface_port should be renamed as
$received_interface_address and $received_interface_port. Would that
help? Otherwise, yes, I'll put in words to clarify all of this.

-- 
Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
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