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Subject: Re: SSH tunnel: postfix wrongly detects mail loop
From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Tue Sep 12 2000 - 10:12:18 CDT

Claus Fischer:
> It seems that the transport table entry on the server must be
> written as
>
> client.com smtp:[127.0.0.1:5001]
>
> where I had put
>
> client.com smtp:[127.0.0.1]:5001
>
>
> The latter form was accepted but the :5001 was silently discarded.
> Also the latter form seems more natural or intuitive to me.
>
> Is it somehow possible to
> (a) correct the parsing if [a.b.c.d]:port is also acceptable
> (b) notify the admin if it's not acceptable?

Yup, that's poor parsing and error reporting. One for the TODO list.

        Wietse