Hello all,

I noticed today that there is a client_addr field in the r/w database that 
stores the source server's IP address.  On my setup (Exim4 -> Amavisd-new -> 
Exim4) this is always populated with NULL.

Having checked the mailing list I see that this is reliant upon the XFORWARD 
feature of Postfix (details on this are here for anybody not aware of it - 
http://www.postfix.org/XFORWARD_README.html).  Obviously Exim doesn't have this 
feature - though there is a patch available 
(http://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20060518.093957.3322cd9c.en.html).

Has anybody found a way / have any suggestion how to get this working using 
Exim rather than Postfix?  I'm not too keen about patching either Exim or 
Amavis because it makes upgrading a headache.  I've not looked into the code 
that deeply though surely the same information could be carried in a standard 
header called 'X-Forward-IP' (or similar)?

Is it really that easy or am I missing something somewhere?  The general 
opinion on the Exim-dev list seems to be that the XFORWARD feature isn't 
required so it doesn't look like the patch will make it into the official 
binary any time soon.

I'd appreciate your comments / suggestions.


Thanks


Richard


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