On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:07:29 +0100, Tony Finch <dot@???> wrote:
> >What does Exim say when you do this?
>
> It only sees 127.0.0.1, which brought me to the right direction: I
> have local_interfaces set to 127.0.0.1 on that test system, and exim
> does only seem to honor IP addresses listed in local_interface for @[]
> expansion.
>
> If this is the intended behavior, I now know what is going on. I can
> live with that. Thanks for the pointer.
It is as intended. The manual says:
+---------------------------------------------------------------+
|local_interfaces|Use: main|Type: string list|Default: see below|
+---------------------------------------------------------------+
This option controls which network interfaces are used by the daemon
for listening; they are also used to identify the local host when
routing. Chapter 13 contains a full description of this option and the
related options daemon_smtp_ports, extra_local_interfaces,
hosts_treat_as_local, and tls_on_connect_ports.
You might also like to look at:
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
|extra_local_interfaces|Use: main|Type: string list|Default: unset|
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
This option defines network interfaces that are to be considered local
when routing, but which are not used for listening by the daemon. See
section 13.8 for details.
I will add a reference to these options to the description of @[].
--
Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service
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