Re: [fetchmail-users] how to avoid ipv6 address?

[Peter P. <ro...@ri...>]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:16:51PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 02:48:22PM +0000, Rob MacGregor wrote:
> > On 3/26/07, Christian Ebert <bla...@gm...> wrote:
> > > 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.
> > <---SNIP--->
> > > Otherwise everything is working fine, I just wanted to know
> > > whether there's an "innocent" way to get rid of this warning?
> > 
> > 1) Have your mail server listen on IPv6 loopback
> > 2) Disable IPv6 on your host
> > 3) Edit your /etc/hosts and comment out the IPv6 loopback
> > 
> > I don't believe there is any way in fetchmail to tell it not to use
> > IPv6.  I think your only option is to either ensure that your SMTP
> > server listens on IPv6 or disable IPv6 (or at least the lookup), with
> > the first being the cleanest approach IMO.
> > 
> > You could also simply specify the smtphost as 127.0.0.1.
> 

...resending my own reply, since the berlios server seems to dislike
multipart/signed messages containing a text/plain part and
an application/pgp-signature part:

> And, of course,
> 
> 4) Edit your /etc/hosts, add another alias for 127.0.0.1 and specify that
>    as fetchmail's smtphost.

G'luck,
Peter

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