From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Feb 7 13: 6: 1 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 085D937B401; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 13:06:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from lilbuddy.antsclimbtree.com (lilbuddy.antsclimbtree.com [216.27.183.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22A6544025; Fri, 7 Feb 2003 13:05:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@antsclimbtree.com) Received: from adsl-66-122-112-170.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([66.122.112.170] helo=dina) by lilbuddy.antsclimbtree.com with asmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.12) id 18hFh1-0001Ws-00; Fri, 07 Feb 2003 13:05:51 -0800 Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 13:05:47 -0800 Subject: FreeBSD Port: exim-4.12_1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org To: sheldonh@FreeBSD.org From: Mark Edwards Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Since you are now configuring the exim port for IPv6 support by default, I thought I'd share a problem I encountered when updating to the current port. The configure.default file sets: hostlist relay_from_hosts = 127.0.0.1 which is to allow local processes to relay mail. If a process is IPv6-enabled, it may attempt to communicate as ::1 (IPv6 localhost) and receive a "relay denied". One such port that does this by default is /usr/ports/mail/mailman There are several possible solutions to this issue, which I worked out with the help of the exim-users mailing list, but the one that was the best for me was to add local_interfaces = 0.0.0.0 to my /usr/local/etc/exim/configure file, which causes exim to only listen to IPv4 requests. Another possibility is to set hostlist relay_from_hosts = 127.0.0.1 : ::1 which tells exim to allow relaying from both IPv4 and IPv6 localhost. It is probably a good idea to include a quick note in the port documentation describing this potential issue, and these workarounds. After I upgraded I had everything work except my mailman configuration, which was pretty confusing at first. Thanks! -- Mark Edwards Engineer Mr. Toad's San Francisco, CA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message