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authorJeremy Harris <jgh146exb@wizmail.org>2014-11-16 14:14:35 +0000
committerJeremy Harris <jgh146exb@wizmail.org>2015-01-12 18:58:33 +0000
commit9c695f6d10bd63bd44608bd01f0073fd4c7dd6e6 (patch)
treef00e318ac5e4895c1e958e9d3a5ca468f36dd0f7 /doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
parent44cb15a8ff06c99f6791440c61a161935d0ccf8c (diff)
Make the retry_include_ip_address smtp transport option expanded. Bug 1545
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
index c831e6cc4..c6aeea145 100644
--- a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
+++ b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
@@ -23268,7 +23268,7 @@ connecting, as an outbound SSL-on-connect, instead of using STARTTLS to upgrade.
The Internet standards bodies strongly discourage use of this mode.
-.option retry_include_ip_address smtp boolean true
+.option retry_include_ip_address smtp boolean&!! true
Exim normally includes both the host name and the IP address in the key it
constructs for indexing retry data after a temporary delivery failure. This
means that when one of several IP addresses for a host is failing, it gets
@@ -23278,9 +23278,8 @@ addresses is not affected.
However, in some dialup environments hosts are assigned a different IP address
each time they connect. In this situation the use of the IP address as part of
the retry key leads to undesirable behaviour. Setting this option false causes
-Exim to use only the host name. This should normally be done on a separate
-instance of the &(smtp)& transport, set up specially to handle the dialup
-hosts.
+Exim to use only the host name.
+Since it is expanded it can be made to depend on the host or domain.
.option serialize_hosts smtp "host list&!!" unset