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

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