On 2014-07-09 at 11:26 +0200, Marcin Mirosław wrote:
> W dniu 02.07.2014 03:43, Phil Pennock pisze:
> > Sorry, that's misleading, yes. What it means is "for the hostname or IP
> > address given, couldn't connect to any host matching that hostname". If
> > you had specified "localhost 3310" on an IPv6 system, then it would have
> > tried 127.0.0.1 and ::1 both before reporting that error.
> >
> > So when Exim is working through the list of possible targets, in random
> > order now, each item is tried in turn; when they're IP addresses instead
> > of hostnames, then the message is misleading.
>
> Should I fill bug for this?
Yes, I think so.
It's not trivial to fix, since the code is "working" and working well,
and it's reuse of code which is geared for another context (finding a
mail-server to connect to), but bad diagnostic messages waste human time
and should count as an issue to be addressed.
-Phil
