Quoting Philip Hazel: >> I'd say so. There were some people on the list stumbling over that, so >> it seems to be not that obvious. Probably even in detail, like "It is >> not set on outgoing connections, as Exim does not know the address the >> OS will choose." > But it *is* set on outgoing connections - to the value it had when the > message was received!
Oh. I didn't think of that. This makes it even more confusing. > Maybe $interface_address and $interface_port should be renamed as > $received_interface_address and $received_interface_port. Would that > help? Otherwise, yes, I'll put in words to clarify all of this. Absolutely. I think most people will read the current name (and even the spec) as $interface_address being the address of the "current" connection. -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
