Control: retitle -1 dovecot-core: IPv6 addresses in brackets no longer accepted Control: tags -1 + pending upstream
Hi, On Thu, 16 May 2013 16:19:50 +0200 Olaf Zaplinski <o...@zaplinski.de> wrote: > Package: dovecot-core > Version: 1:2.1.7-7 > Severity: normal > Tags: ipv6 > > Dear Maintainer, > > since the upgrade from Debian 6 to 7, dovecot no lomger accepts IPv6 > addresses: > > # /etc/init.d/dovecot restart > [....] Restarting IMAP/POP3 mail server: dovecotFatal: service(imap-login) > Can't resolve address [::1]: Name or service not known > > This is the 'wrong' entry from my old config: > address = 127.0.0.1, [::1] > > When I change that line to > address = ip6-localhost, localhost > > everything is fine. Funny is the fact that [::] is accepted, see below. Indeed, IPv6 addresses in brackets are not accepted until 2.2.20 (see [1]). However, IPv6 addresses *without* brackets should work: address = 127.0.0.1, ::1 [::] works because it is explicitly searched for in the configuration parser. [1] https://github.com/dovecot/core/commit/a03a29b0b12b9a071995a7e94e74c46c993d5013 Regards, Apollon
