[Dovecot] Simplest (static?) build & config for loopback access?

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 10:16 -0400, FZiegler wrote:
> 1) Initially Dovecot would not respond to Thunderbird ("Could not 
> connect to server localhost; the connection was refused"). Eventually, a 
> "Trying ::1..." in the telnet log (see below) made me find hidden pref 
> "network.dns.disableIPv6" and set it to FALSE. Which solves the problem 
> -- but is this really needed, or have I done something wrong?

So localhost tried to use ::1 instead of 127.0.0.1? With Dovecot v1.0 if
you set

listen = [::]

It listens for IPv6 and may also listen for IPv4 (don't know about OSX).
With v1.1 you could have made sure Dovecot listens on both:

listen = *, [::]

> 2) The Dovecot I built on OS X 10.4 appears to work fine when copied on 
> another Mac running 10.5. Now, I'd love to avoid installing developer 
> tools on both machines, but I fear this an illusion (some libraries are 
> changing under us, e.g. libiconv.2.2.0.dylib --> libiconv.2.4.0.dylib). 
> Does this mean I should try a static build? If so, what are the flags 
> and how do I go about specifying a minimal set of libraries to include 
> for my purposes?

No idea about this. configure doesn't directly support this.
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