Re: [exim] separating IP of mailing list

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Author: Jasen Betts
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] separating IP of mailing list
On 2014-01-18, Chris Knadle <Chris.Knadle@???> wrote:
> On Saturday, January 18, 2014 16:28:41 Jeremy Harris wrote:
>> On 18/01/14 16:16, Chris Knadle wrote:
>> > Is there a way of setting what IP address should be used to send out mail?
>>
>> Interface option on the smtp transport. It's an expanded string, so for
>> your case make it conditional on "is-mailinglist". Presence of a
>> suitable header line is probably a good marker.
>>
>> http://exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-the_smtp_transport.h
>> tml#SECID146
>
> Yep, the interface option in the transport did it. Thank you very much. (And
> I'm a bit in awe at how quickly and concisely you answered this.)
>
> Furthermore I think you're implying with a conditional that I could end up
> merging the two separate daemons/configurations back into one and yet
> accomplish the same thing. :-O Nice.


You could, but to get that setting to work reliably you need to also set
SMTP_RCPT_MAX=1, this will hurt efficiency.

A better approach is to set it statically but duplicate the transport
, have one for each interface and then, in the router, use a conditon
or use an expansion for the transport name.

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