On Sun, 27 May 2007, Tim Jackson wrote:
> Philip Hazel wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Tim Jackson wrote:
> >> Is there any way to log which local interface was used for the outbound
> >> connection, on the "=>" log line?
>
> [...]
>
> > at present there is no mechanism for passing this
> > information back from the process that actually makes the connection to
> > the main delivery process, which is the one that writes the log line.
>
> How is this handled for the smtp_confirmation log selector? Is that not
> the same situation?
Yes, and there *is* a mechanism for passing that information back (along
with other information such as which host was actually used). My point
was that the "passing back information" mechanism would need to be
extended, and somewhere would have to be found to store the data.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service
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