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Date:      Wed, 2 Apr 2003 13:34:01 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To:        Mark Edwards <mark@antsclimbtree.com>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Port: exim-4.12_1
Message-ID:  <20030402113401.GM725@starjuice.net>
In-Reply-To: <EDF6398A-3ADF-11D7-BA93-0005025E566F@antsclimbtree.com>
References:  <EDF6398A-3ADF-11D7-BA93-0005025E566F@antsclimbtree.com>

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On (2003/02/07 13:05), Mark Edwards wrote:

> 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

Sorry, I dropped the ball on this one.

Please refer me to the original discussion on the exim-users mailing
list and I'll take a look.

Ciao,
Sheldon.



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