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Subject: Re: [2] how to bind smtp client to specific address?
From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Thu Mar 30 2000 - 08:13:01 CST


Michael Ju. Tokarev:
> Currently postfix can't use specific address for outbound connections,
> it always uses INADDR_ANY (as you seen), and lefts this choice to

That is inaccurate. Postfix performs an explicit bind(2) when
main.cf is configured such that the inet_interfaces parameter
specifies only one IP address.

It is not my fault that some IP stacks are broken and ignore
the explicit bind(2) call.

        Wietse