| Yes I'm talking about outgoing mails. I have 10 IP addresses on my
| Linux box. I want send First 10 emails from IP address 1 then next 10
| from 2nd and so on.
This is an open message to everyone on the Exim mailing list, because
I unwisely can't hold my tongue any more. I know that you like solving
technical problems involving Exim (I do too, it's neat). But maybe you
want to take a step back here to ask yourself an important question:
Why are you spending your own time, gratis, to help someone
(apparently) avoid or bypass IP address ratelimits on their
outgoing email?
There are very few legitimate reasons to want to spread one's email
sending out among multiple IP addresses more or less at random and the
original request did not explain *why* they wanted to do such an odd
thing. Further, you (as a postmaster) would almost certainly not like
it if a sender tried this trick (and I call it a trick deliberately) on
you.
I am not saying that you should not answer the sender's question or
anything like that. I am just suggesting that perhaps you might not
want to answer it reflexively, without thinking about why you are
helping them out (and if you really want to enable this).
I apologize if this is considered annoying or (highly) off topic
for the mailing list and will shut up now. This is very much not
intended as an incitement to a mailing list argument about this;
as far as I'm concerned everyone can make up their own minds in
private and there is no need to justify your decision to me (or
anyone else).
- cks
