Make the retry_include_ip_address smtp transport option expanded. Bug 1545

[users/jgh/exim.git] / doc / doc-docbook / spec.xfpt

diff --git a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
index 8b1a17b26f91fc2339bde898e3c56b403180817c..3bd98cd716715beaa9a309612fc73831f7c1bd55 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
+++ b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
@@ -23281,7 +23281,7 @@ connecting, as an outbound SSL-on-connect, instead of using STARTTLS to upgrade.
 The Internet standards bodies strongly discourage use of this mode.
 
 
-.option retry_include_ip_address smtp boolean true
+.option retry_include_ip_address smtp boolean&!! true
 Exim normally includes both the host name and the IP address in the key it
 constructs for indexing retry data after a temporary delivery failure. This
 means that when one of several IP addresses for a host is failing, it gets
@@ -23291,9 +23291,8 @@ addresses is not affected.
 However, in some dialup environments hosts are assigned a different IP address
 each time they connect. In this situation the use of the IP address as part of
 the retry key leads to undesirable behaviour. Setting this option false causes
-Exim to use only the host name. This should normally be done on a separate
-instance of the &(smtp)& transport, set up specially to handle the dialup
-hosts.
+Exim to use only the host name.
+Since it is expanded it can be made to depend on the host or domain.
 
 
 .option serialize_hosts smtp "host list&!!" unset