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

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

* Peter Pentchev on Monday, March 26, 2007 at 18:40:08 +0300:
> 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:
>>>> 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--->
>>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> And, of course,
>> 
>> 4) Edit your /etc/hosts, add another alias for 127.0.0.1 and specify that
>> as fetchmail's smtphost.

Then I also loose mail, with specifying a port as well.

Might be due to some postfix config, or to Apple's
/etc/hostconfig:

$ cat /etc/hostconfig
##
# /etc/hostconfig
##
# This file is maintained by the system control panels
##

# Network configuration
HOSTNAME=krille.blacktrash.org
ROUTER=-AUTOMATIC-

# Services
AFPSERVER=-NO-
AUTHSERVER=-NO-
AUTOMOUNT=-YES-
CUPS=-YES-
IPFORWARDING=-NO-
IPV6=-YES-
MAILSERVER=-YES-
NETINFOSERVER=-AUTOMATIC-
NFSLOCKS=-AUTOMATIC-
NISDOMAIN=-NO-
RPCSERVER=-AUTOMATIC-
TIMESYNC=-YES-
QTSSERVER=-NO-
WEBSERVER=-YES-
SMBSERVER=-NO-
DNSSERVER=-NO-
COREDUMPS=-NO-
VPNSERVER=-NO-
CRASHREPORTER=-YES-
ARDAGENT=-NO-

Probably I could unset ipv6 there, but I'd prefer not to.
Probably the best bet is to upgrade postfix -- once I find the
time.

Thanks for the advice though.

c
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