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Re: [Bug-mailfromd] ipv6 support?


Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@xxxxxxxxxx> 2011-03-03 23:26:
> Hi Brian,
> 
> > It doesn't look like there's much in the way of IPv6 support from
> > mailfromd.  Is that accurate?  Is this inherent to mailfromd or could I
> > potentially just rewrite a bunch of the of the default *.mf modules to
> > add support for it?
> 
> Mailfromd does not support IPv6 so far.  It is not inherent to mailfromd
> itself nor to Milter in general, it is simply a leftover from old days.
> Implementing IPv6 should be fairly straightforward, but it should be done
> in C sources, which are responsible for basic networking support.
> 
> I was just going to do so in the Git version, so if you are interested
> I can make a working snapshot for you when I'm ready (I expect it to
> take a week or so).
> 
> Regards,
> Sergey

That'd be great.

Thanks,
Brian

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