Re: [exim/exim] [Bug]: host_lookup not applied for client addresses passed via proxy protocol (Issue #3221)

jgh via Exim-dev <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:27:00 +0100
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Message-ID <exim/exim/issues/3221/comment/[email protected]>
Currently the handling of the *host_lookup* option is done before even checking on *hosts_proxy* (let alone running the proxy-protocol startup), so it'll be picking up the inside IP of the proxy itself. We need to a) avoid that, and b) do the *host_lookup* thing on the remote IP as reported by proxy-protocol, when that is in use. And setup the process-info.

For now, I suggest configuring host_lookup = : so that a reverse lookup is only done if and when a name is required for the IP.

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