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 -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
