Testsuite: avoid assuming 127.0.0.2 is a viable sending address

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@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ EXPORTABLE EXIM TEST SUITE
 
 This document last updated for:
 
-Test Suite Version: 4.67
-Date: 20 February 2007
+Test Suite Version: 4.87
+Date: 30 January 2016
 
 
 BACKGROUND
@@ -73,12 +73,13 @@ In order to run this test suite, the following requirements must be met:
 
       Defaults:exim-build     timestamp_timeout=480,!tty_tickets
 
-(3) The login under which you run the tests must be in the exim group so that
-    it has access to logs, spool files, etc. The login should not be one of the
-    names "userx", "usery", "userz", or a few other simple ones such as "abcd"
-    and "xyz" and single letters that are used in the tests. The test suite
-    expects the login to have a gecos name; I think it will now run if the
-    gecos field is empty but there may be anomalies.
+(3) The login under which you run the tests must have the exim group as a
+    secondary so that it has access to logs, spool files, etc.  However, it
+    should have a different primary group (eg. "users" vs. "eximgroup"). The
+    login should not be one of the names "userx", "usery", "userz", or a few
+    other simple ones such as "abcd" and "xyz" and single letters that are used
+    in the tests. The test suite expects the login to have a gecos name; I think
+    it will now run if the gecos field is empty but there may be anomalies.
     The login must not contain a dash or an equal sign. (Otherwise some tests
     about local_from_{suffix,prefix} will fail.)
 
@@ -213,10 +214,12 @@ THE RUNTEST SCRIPT
 ------------------
 
 If you do not supply any arguments to ./runtest, it searches for an Exim
-source tree at the same level as the test suite directory. It then looks for an
-Exim binary in a "build" directory of that source tree. If there are several
-Exim source trees, it chooses the latest version of Exim. Consider the
-following example:
+source tree at the same level as the test suite directory. A source tree
+is a source tree, if it contains a build-* directory.
+
+It then looks for an Exim binary in a "build" directory of that source
+tree. If there are several Exim source trees, it chooses the latest
+version of Exim. Consider the following example:
 
   $ ls -F /source/exim
   exim-4.60/  exim-4.62/  exim-testsuite-x.xx/
@@ -260,6 +263,17 @@ There are some options for the ./runtest script itself:
             (If it turns out that most people prefer to use diff, I'll change
             the default.)
 
+  -FLAVOR <flavor>
+  -FLAVOUR <flavour>
+            This allows "overrides" for the test results. It's intended
+            use is to deal with distro specific differences in the test
+            output. The default flavour is "foo". If during the test
+            run differences between the current and the expected output
+            are found and no flavour file exists already, you may update
+            the "common" expected output or you may create a flavour
+            file. If  a flavour file already exists, any updates will go
+            into that flavour file!
+
   -KEEP     Normally, after a successful run, the test output files are
             deleted. This option prevents this. It is useful when running a
             single test, in order to look at the actual output before it is
@@ -827,6 +841,12 @@ terminated by four asterisks. Even if no data is required for the particular
 usage, the asterisks must be given.
 
 
+  background
+
+This command takes one script line and runs it in the background,
+in parallel with following commands.  For external daemons, eg. redis-server.
+
+
   catwrite <file name> [nxm[=start-of-line-text]]*
 
 This command operates like the "write" command, which is described below,