Re: why is SA scanning outgoing mail? (exim)

I demand that Justin C may or may not have written...

> On 2005-08-25, Darren Salt <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I demand that Justin C may or may not have written...
[snip; scanning only incoming mail, not fetched via SMTP]
>>> Problem I got was with fetchmail, I think it's because mail from
>>> fetchmail appears (at least to sa/exim) to come from the localhost and
>>> therefore isn't scanned. [...]

>> Try this:
>> # ifconfig lo:0 192.168.169.1
>> [and tell fetchmail to deliver to that address]

> I suppose that's lo:0 like eth0, eth1, eth2, etc.?

No: it's a way of attaching more than one address to an interface.

> In which case, if I can have lo:0, what is lo, isn't it numbered?

It may help to think of it as the container for the primary address for the
loopback interface.

[snip]
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