On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Marc Haber wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:07:29 +0100, Tony Finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >What does Exim say when you do this?
> 
> It only sees 127.0.0.1, which brought me to the right direction: I
> have local_interfaces set to 127.0.0.1 on that test system, and exim
> does only seem to honor IP addresses listed in local_interface for @[]
> expansion.
> 
> If this is the intended behavior, I now know what is going on. I can
> live with that. Thanks for the pointer.

It is as intended. The manual says:

  +---------------------------------------------------------------+
  |local_interfaces|Use: main|Type: string list|Default: see below|
  +---------------------------------------------------------------+
  
  This option controls which network interfaces are used by the daemon
  for listening; they are also used to identify the local host when
  routing. Chapter 13 contains a full description of this option and the
  related options daemon_smtp_ports, extra_local_interfaces,
  hosts_treat_as_local, and tls_on_connect_ports.

You might also like to look at:

  +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
  |extra_local_interfaces|Use: main|Type: string list|Default: unset|
  +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
  
  This option defines network interfaces that are to be considered local
  when routing, but which are not used for listening by the daemon. See
  section 13.8 for details.

I will add a reference to these options to the description of @[].

-- 
Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
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