On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, S�nke Ruempler wrote: > >Do you want to control tha local IP used by the SMAIL server ? > >It's not possible. > > Right. Our server has several ip addresses, but XMail does not send the > mails over that ip address it receives it's mails.
Ok, if you have a multihomed workstation with internal and external IPs XMail ( or better the OS ) will use internal ones when talking to internal IPs and external ones when talking to external. This in 99% of normal configurations. You can force local IP masquerading using netfilter/ipchains but i can't see valid reasons to do this. Which IP from the internal/external IP set is choosen depends on the routing table. If multiple IP have the same "cost", it'll be up to the OS to pickup one. XMail does not have explicit local IP binding because : 1) of request out of thousands does not justify the feature 2) it's very very easy to screw up things by forcing explicit binding And 2) means for me a _lot_ of emails from people trying to do things that they do not understand. Murphy is pretty clear about it: Give someone a thing that he can screw up, and he will. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
