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:
>>> 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.

Potentially dangerous with postfix -- if, like me you don't know
the parameters you'd have to change there ;)
 
>> And, of course,
>> 
>> 4) Edit your /etc/hosts, add another alias for 127.0.0.1 and specify that
>> as fetchmail's smtphost.

That's what I'm doing now, and also added the alias to postfix'
$mydestination.

Thanks.

c
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