Re: [exim] $interface_address

Quoting Philip Hazel:

>> 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!

Oh. I didn't think of that. This makes it even more confusing.

> 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.

Absolutely. I think most people will read the current name (and even the
spec) as $interface_address being the address of the "current" connection.