On 4/8/21 7:56 AM, Aki Tuomi wrote:


One has to ask why it has AAAA record in DNS if you don't intend to use it?





Because that's my infrastructure.



As already stated in the OP:



        whereas other services listen at both IPv4 & IPv6 addresses, with IPv6 
preferred over IPv4, postfix listens ONLY on IPv4,



I don't intend to use it for POSTFIX. And therefore, neither for Dovecot.



In _exactly_ the same manner/sense as dovecot's already-existing option to 
limit it's OWN listeners (inet_listener
) to IPv4 only.



On 08/04/2021 14:45 PGNet Dev <pgnet....@gmail.com> wrote:

How do you turn OFF, or reduce priority of, IPv6 connect attempts by submission relay?

On 4/3/21 8:03 PM, PGNet Dev wrote:
my server is a linux, dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 host

it runs multiple services, including, but not limited to, postfix & dovecot

the hostname is

      internal.mx.example.com

its DNS config,

      host internal.mx.example.com
          internal.mx.example.com has address 10.1.1.15
          internal.mx.example.com has IPv6 address fd80:10:1::15
          internal.mx.example.com mail is handled by 5 internal.mx.example.com.

here, for dovecot

      dovecot --version
          2.3.13 (89f716dc2)

submission is configured to relay to the same-host postfix instance, listening 
@ port 465

      ./conf.d/10-master.conf
          ...
          protocols = imap submission lmtp sieve
          ...
          submission_relay_host       = internal.mx.example.com
          submission_relay_port       = 465
          submission_relay_ssl        = smtps
          submission_relay_ssl_verify = yes
          submission_relay_trusted    = yes

whereas other services listen at both IPv4 & IPv6 addresses, with IPv6 
preferred over IPv4, postfix listens ONLY on IPv4,

      postconf inet_protocols
          inet_protocols = ipv4

and, as intended, simply refuses ipv6 connections

      telnet 10.1.1.15 465
          Trying 10.1.1.15...
          Connected to 10.1.1.15.
          Escape character is '^]'.
          ^]
          telnet> quit
          Connection closed.

      telnet -6 fd80:10:1::15 465
          Trying fd80:10:1::15...
          telnet: connect to address fd80:10:1::15: Connection refused

on each/every mail submit -- via dovecot -- dovecot makes the connection

      2021-04-03 19:35:35 submission(mai...@mx.example.com)</tnO6xm/PIqsHgsH>: 
Debug: smtp-server: conn 10.1.2.163:35388 [1]: Server accepted connection (fd=7)
      2021-04-03 19:35:35 submission(mai...@mx.example.com)</tnO6xm/PIqsHgsH>: 
Debug: smtp-server: conn 10.1.2.163:35388 [1]: Connection created
      2021-04-03 19:35:35 submission(mai...@mx.example.com)</tnO6xm/PIqsHgsH>: 
Debug: smtp-client: conn internal.mx.example.com:465 [1]: Connection created
      2021-04-03 19:35:35 submission(mai...@mx.example.com)</tnO6xm/PIqsHgsH>: 
Debug: smtp-client: conn internal.mx.example.com:465 [1]: Disconnected

looks up IP address

      2021-04-03 19:35:35 submission(mai...@mx.example.com)</tnO6xm/PIqsHgsH>: 
Debug: smtp-client: conn internal.mx.example.com:465 [1]: Looking up IP address
      2021-04-03 19:35:35 submission(mai...@mx.example.com)</tnO6xm/PIqsHgsH>: 
Debug: smtp-client: conn internal.mx.example.com:465 [1]: Performing asynchronous DNS 
lookup
      2021-04-03 19:35:35 submission(mai...@mx.example.com)</tnO6xm/PIqsHgsH>: 
Debug: smtp-server: conn 10.1.2.163:35388 [1]: Sent: 235 2.7.0 Logged in.

finds BOTH IPs -- IPv4 & IPv6

      2021-04-03 19:35:35 submission(mai...@mx.example.com)</tnO6xm/PIqsHgsH>: 
Debug: smtp-client: conn internal.mx.example.com:465 [1]: DNS lookup successful; got 
2 IPs

then first tries to connect via the host's IPv6 address,

      2021-04-03 19:35:35 submission(mai...@mx.example.com)</tnO6xm/PIqsHgsH>: 
Debug: smtp-client: conn internal.mx.example.com:465 [1]: Connecting to 
fd80:10:1::15:465
      2021-04-03 19:35:35 submission(mai...@mx.example.com)</tnO6xm/PIqsHgsH>: 
Debug: smtp-client: conn internal.mx.example.com:465 ([fd80:10:1::15]:465) [1]: 
Connecting
      2021-04-03 19:35:35 submission(mai...@mx.example.com)</tnO6xm/PIqsHgsH>: 
Debug: smtp-client: conn internal.mx.example.com:465 ([fd80:10:1::15]:465) [1]: 
Waiting for connect (fd=8) to finish for max 0 msecs

############
   FAILS
############

      2021-04-03 19:35:35 submission(mai...@mx.example.com)</tnO6xm/PIqsHgsH>: 
Debug: smtp-client: conn internal.mx.example.com:465 ([fd80:10:1::15]:465) [1]: 
Client connection failed (fd=8)

then proceeds to connect to the host's IPv4 address

      2021-04-03 19:35:35 submission(mai...@mx.example.com)</tnO6xm/PIqsHgsH>: 
Debug: smtp-client: conn internal.mx.example.com:465 ([fd80:10:1::15]:465) [1]: 
Connecting to 10.1.1.15:465
      2021-04-03 19:35:35 submission(mai...@mx.example.com)</tnO6xm/PIqsHgsH>: 
Debug: smtp-client: conn internal.mx.example.com:465 (10.1.1.15:465) [1]: Connecting
      2021-04-03 19:35:35 submission(mai...@mx.example.com)</tnO6xm/PIqsHgsH>: 
Debug: smtp-client: conn internal.mx.example.com:465 (10.1.1.15:465) [1]: Waiting for 
connect (fd=11) to finish for max 0 msecs
      2021-04-03 19:35:35 submission(mai...@mx.example.com)</tnO6xm/PIqsHgsH>: 
Debug: smtp-client: conn internal.mx.example.com:465 (10.1.1.15:465) [1]: Client 
connected (fd=11)
      2021-04-03 19:35:35 submission(mai...@mx.example.com)</tnO6xm/PIqsHgsH>: 
Debug: smtp-client: conn internal.mx.example.com:465 (10.1.1.15:465) [1]: Connected 
to server (from 10.1.1.15:52880)
      2021-04-03 19:35:35 submission(mai...@mx.example.com)</tnO6xm/PIqsHgsH>: 
Debug: smtp-client: conn internal.mx.example.com:465 (10.1.1.15:465) [1]: Starting 
SSL handshake
      2021-04-03 19:35:35 submission(mai...@mx.example.com)</tnO6xm/PIqsHgsH>: 
Debug: smtp-client: conn internal.mx.example.com:465 (10.1.1.15:465) [1]: SSL 
handshake successful
      ...

and submission continues/completes


I need to get Dovecot to stop trying/failing @ those IPv6 address submission 
connections.

Either by

      (1) trying IPv4 *first*, before IPv6, to avoid the FAIL on submission

or

      (2) turning off submission relay by IPv6 altogether, as I'll never use it

What's the config required to do either/both?


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