[Dovecot] 1.1.1-1 gotcha with Fedora Rawhide package

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Jun 27 10:15:14 EEST 2008


On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 09:11 +0200, Dan Horák wrote:
> > v1.1 changed, because using the same socket for IPv4 and IPv6 caused the
> 
> The change is <http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/da971cec0395>
> 
> > IPv4 connections to use IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses which then caused
> > problems.
> > 
> > So if you want to listen on both IPv4 and IPv6, use:
> > 
> > listen = *, [::]
> > 
> 
> But with this change is the statement about possible listening on IPv4
> with only [::] on some OSes still valid?

With v1.1 [::] listens only on IPv6 addresses on all modern OSes
(AFAIK). Perhaps I should remove the comment about it possibly listening
also on IPv4.

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