[Dovecot] "listen=*, ::" broken?

Phil Howard ttiphil at gmail.com
Thu Aug 5 19:50:14 EEST 2010


On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 09:56, Tom Hendrikx <tom at whyscream.net> wrote:

> This is not true for my linux distro at least, which does not listen on
> ipv4 interface when setting "listen = [::]" (in dovecot 1.2.13).
>
> I need "listen = *, [::]" to enable support for both ipv4 and ipv6. This
> sounds like some distro specific implementation/configuration, so saying
> 'On Linux' is not true.
>
> FWIW: I run gentoo linux (in an openvz container).

Then I guess this is distribution specific.  Or maybe kernel version
specific.  The C library may also be influencing this.

So try all combinations and use what works.

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