Re: IPv6 recap

Sam Varshavchik <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.courier.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Joe Laffey writes:

> One interesting thing. We've established I have no ESMTP_PREFER_IPV6_MX line  
> in my config, and that ipout is a single ipv4 address, and I have no ip6out.
>
> The server is still sending mail via IPv6 to places like Gmail. So it seems  
> it is "preferring" IPv6, but since the ipout is only IPv4 is this correct?  
> Should it be not using IPv6 at all?

No, ip6out just sets an explicit outbound IP address for IPv6 connections.  
If not set you get whatever is your default IPv6 address.

Just like you'll have no issues sending to IPv4 addresses without an  
explicit ipout. You just get the default outbound IPv4 address.

> Or is the issue that with NO ip6out it still uses the first IPv6 address it  
> finds for sending?

Correct.

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