From 9c695f6d10bd63bd44608bd01f0073fd4c7dd6e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeremy Harris Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 14:14:35 +0000 Subject: Make the retry_include_ip_address smtp transport option expanded. Bug 1545 --- doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt | 7 +++---- doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc') 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 diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog index 7359f19ac..ae2b84dd0 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog @@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ Change log file for Exim from version 4.21 ------------------------------------------- +Exim version 4.86 +----------------- +JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now + expanded. + + Exim version 4.85 ----------------- TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as -- cgit v1.2.3