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Subject: Re: users[ip.address]
From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Tue Mar 28 2000 - 10:29:29 CST

Ralf Hildebrandt:
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 11:03:44AM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote:
>
> > Because it isn't a local IP address?
>
> It's supposed to deliver locally on the hub. But it's not in $mydestination
> (I really don't want to add every single IP there [ok, I COULD!])
>
> > There exist several ways to tackle this, all of which suck because
> > they duplicate the in-addr.arpa maps in some way or another.
> >
> > Perhaps yet another feature, to rewrite [local.ip.addr] to $myhostname?
> > I believe qmail has something along those lines.
>
> So you say I should ignore this, since nobody uses it anyway?

I was suggesting a little code in the cleanup daemon that replaces
[any.local.ip.addr] by $myhostname. That could simplify the rest
of Postfix somewhat, and could avoid the need for listing IP
addresses in Postfix configuration files.

        Wietse