Re: [exim] testing to/from IP/port combinations

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Author: Stephen Gran
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] testing to/from IP/port combinations
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 07:25:36PM +1200, Jim Cheetham said:
> I've got a good set of simple tests to confirm that my exim config is
> sensible, that consist of throwing a whole load of invocations of swaks
> and checking whether they get accepted/denied correctly.
>
> I can control which IP/port on the server I connect to just fine (i.e.
> to differentiate between the public IP and localhost where the webmail
> comes from); but I can't see a way of "faking" the IP address I'm
> connecting *from* (especially useful for testing dnslists/RBLs)
>
> 'exim -bh 127.0.0.2' is good for that, as it triggers the dnslists
> checks properly, but I also have an ACL looking for $received_ip_address
> and $received_port (so that I can detect the submission port, for
> example), and '-bh' doesn't seem to populate these variables.
>
> So, can you please tell me how to do this correctly, or share other
> stories about how you do testing?


I frequently test with things like:
exim -d+expand -oMi <my ip>.<my port> -bhc <their ip>
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