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| author | Philip Hazel <ph10@hermes.cam.ac.uk> | 2007-01-30 15:10:58 +0000 |
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| committer | Philip Hazel <ph10@hermes.cam.ac.uk> | 2007-01-30 15:10:58 +0000 |
| commit | 41c7c167f4d3552804bfaf7278d72fc448b851ff (patch) | |
| tree | f462813d5fc6fa01ff8523deccf655fa5b806516 /doc/doc-txt/NewStuff | |
| parent | cf8b11a5399e64e50b6cd58f56a98197aca599d8 (diff) | |
Magnus' patch for $sending_ip_address and $sending_port.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/doc-txt/NewStuff | 21 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff index f5b8bd949..bdfe78c22 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff +++ b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.131 2007/01/30 11:45:20 ph10 Exp $ +$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.132 2007/01/30 15:10:58 ph10 Exp $ New Features in Exim -------------------- @@ -203,6 +203,25 @@ Version 4.67 an EHLO command. Therefore, it should normally appear in an ACL controlled by acl_smtp_connect or acl_smtp_helo. + 7. There are two new variables called $sending_ip_address and $sending_port. + These are set whenever an SMTP connection to another host has been set up, + and they contain the IP address and port of the local interface that is + being used. They are of interest only on hosts that have more than on IP + address that want to take on different personalities depending on which one + is being used. + + 8. The expansion of the helo_data option in the smtp transport now happens + after the connection to the server has been made. This means that it can + use the value of $sending_ip_address (see 7 above) to vary the text of the + message. For example, if you want the string that is used for helo_data to + be obtained by a DNS lookup of the interface address, you could use this: + + helo_data = ${lookup dnsdb{ptr=$sending_ip_address}{$value}\ + {$primary_hostname}} + + The use of helo_data applies both to sending messages and when doing + callouts. + Version 4.66 ------------ |