[fetchmail-users] how to avoid ipv6 address?

[Christian E. <bla...@gm...>]

Hello,

When polling, fetchmail gives the following warning after the
first message:

Trying to connect to ::1/25...connection failed.
fetchmail: connection to localhost:smtp [::1/25] failed: Connection refused.
Trying to connect to 127.0.0.1/25...connected.

I believe this is due to the ipv6 loopback interface in my
/etc/hosts:

$ cat /etc/hosts
##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting.  Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1	localhost krille.blacktrash.org
::1		localhost krille.blacktrash.org
255.255.255.255	broadcasthost

Otherwise everything is working fine, I just wanted to know
whether there's an "innocent" way to get rid of this warning?

$ fetchmail -V
This is fetchmail release 6.3.8-rc2+SSL.

Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 Eric S. Raymond
Copyright (C) 2004 Matthias Andree, Eric S. Raymond, Rob F. Funk, Graham Wilson
Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Sunil Shetye
Copyright (C) 2005-2007 Matthias Andree
Fetchmail comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you
are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. For details,
please see the file COPYING in the source or documentation directory.

Fallback MDA: (none)
Darwin krille.blacktrash.org 7.9.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0: Wed Mar 30 20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC  Power Macintosh powerpc
Taking options from command line and /Users/chris/.fetchmailrc
Idfile is /Users/chris/.fetchids
Fetchmail will show progress dots even in logfiles.
Fetchmail will forward misaddressed multidrop messages to chris.
Options for retrieving from *******@pop.gmx.net:
  True name of server is pop.gmx.net.
  Protocol is POP3 (forcing UIDL use).
  Password authentication will be forced.
  SSL encrypted sessions enabled.
  SSL key fingerprint (checked against the server key): *************
  Server nonresponse timeout is 60 seconds.
  Default mailbox selected.
  All messages will be retrieved (--all on).
  Fetched messages will not be kept on the server (--keep off).
  Old messages will not be flushed before message retrieval (--flush off).
  Oversized messages will not be flushed before message retrieval (--limitflush off).
  Rewrite of server-local addresses is enabled (--norewrite off).
  Carriage-return stripping is enabled (stripcr on).
  Carriage-return forcing is disabled (forcecr off).
  Interpretation of Content-Transfer-Encoding is enabled (pass8bits off).
  MIME decoding is disabled (mimedecode off).
  Idle after poll is disabled (idle off).
  Nonempty Status lines will be kept (dropstatus off)
  Delivered-To lines will be kept (dropdelivered off)
  Fetch message size limit is 100 (--fetchsizelimit 100).
  Do binary search of UIDs during 3 out of 4 polls (--fastuidl 4).
  Messages will be SMTP-forwarded to: localhost (default)
  Single-drop mode: 1 local name recognized.
  No UIDs saved from this host.


TIA

c
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