Logging: ensure that an error for a mistyped IPv6 address in a search

[exim.git] / src / src / match.c

diff --git a/src/src/match.c b/src/src/match.c
index 07070362df3199f2956aceee614810c33b3bc831..8b1a3bef6cc88e44326818aa21b7d792993b0748 100644 (file)
--- a/src/src/match.c
+++ b/src/src/match.c
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 *     Exim - an Internet mail transport agent    *
 *************************************************/
 
-/* Copyright (c) The Exim Maintainers 2020 - 2022 */
+/* Copyright (c) The Exim Maintainers 2020 - 2023 */
 /* Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 1995 - 2018 */
 /* See the file NOTICE for conditions of use and distribution. */
 /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later */
@@ -886,14 +886,19 @@ while ((sss = string_nextinlist(&list, &sep, NULL, 0)))
          log_write(0, LOG_MAIN, "%s: accepted by +include_defer", error);
          goto OK_RETURN;
 
-        case ERROR:            /* host name lookup failed - this can only */
-         if (ignore_unknown)   /* be for an incoming host (not outgoing) */
+        /* The ERROR return occurs when checking hosts, when either a forward
+        or reverse lookup has failed. It can also occur in a match_ip list if a
+        non-IP address item is encountered. The error string gives details of
+        which it was. */
+
+        case ERROR:
+         if (ignore_unknown)
            {
            HDEBUG(D_lists) debug_printf_indent("%s: item ignored by +ignore_unknown\n",
              error);
            }
          else
-          {
+           {
            HDEBUG(D_lists) debug_printf_indent("%s %s (%s)\n", ot,
              include_unknown? "yes":"no", error);
            (void)fclose(f);