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This router has no private options. Unless it is being used purely for
verification (see verify_only
) a transport is required to be defined by the
generic transport
option. The router accepts the address if its domain part
takes the form of an RFC 2822 domain literal. For example, the ipliteral
router handles the address
root@[192.168.1.1] |
by setting up delivery to the host with that IP address. IPv4 domain literals consist of an IPv4 address enclosed in square brackets. IPv6 domain literals are similar, but the address is preceded by ‘ipv6:’. For example:
postmaster@[ipv6:fe80::a00:20ff:fe86:a061.5678] |
Exim allows ‘ipv4:’ before IPv4 addresses, for consistency, and on the grounds that sooner or later somebody will try it.
If the IP address matches something in ignore_target_hosts
, the router
declines. If an IP literal turns out to refer to the local host, the generic
self
option determines what happens.
The RFCs require support for domain literals; however, their use is
controversial in today's Internet. If you want to use this router, you must
also set the main configuration option allow_domain_literals
. Otherwise,
Exim will not recognize the domain literal syntax in addresses.
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