[Gllug] postfix: ip address for outgoing mail

[Alex Sayle]

On 1 Mar 2006, at 11:48GMT, Martin A. Brooks wrote:

> Benedikt Heinen wrote:
>> How can I control, which IP address postfix is using for sending  
>> email on a
>> machine with several IP addresses  (one network interface with one  
>> main and
>> several aliased IPs; ideally, I'd like postfix just to use the  
>> main IP
>> address, as the aliased ones are only used for different https-hosts)
>
> I imagine postfix has an option for binding to specific interfaces  
> on startup.

  $man smtp
...

smtp_bind_address (empty)
	An  optional  numerical  network  address that the SMTP
	client should bind to when making a connection.
...

would be the one.




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