Package: exim4-config Version: 4.72-6+squeeze2 Severity: normal Tags: ipv6 When configuring exim4, the IPv6 localhost cannot be used as the local_interfaces setting because it removes colons. Furthermore, if one would expand the address like so: 0000:0000::1, only the first segment is kept. The standard method of explicitly denoting an IPv6 addresses in brackets is not accepted either.
Some examples: Answer Result __________________________________________________________________________ ::1 Malformed IP address ":1" in local_interfaces [::1] Malformed IP address ":1" in local_interfaces 0000::1 Malformed IP address "0000:1" in local_interfaces [0000::1] Malformed IP address "0000:1" in local_interfaces 0000:0000::1 Malformed IP address "0000" in local_interfaces [0000:0000::1] Malformed IP address "[0000" in local_interfaces The workaround is to append a semicolon to the address. Kill any running exim4 process, remove /var/log/exim4/paniclog if it exists and configure "::1;" as the IP address to listen on. -- Package-specific info: Exim version 4.72 #1 built 12-May-2011 18:50:41 Copyright (c) University of Cambridge, 1995 - 2007 Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 4.8.30: (April 9, 2010) Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages DKIM Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb dsearch nis nis0 passwd Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp Fixed never_users: 0 Size of off_t: 8 GnuTLS compile-time version: 2.8.6 GnuTLS runtime version: 2.8.6 Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages exim4-config depends on: ii adduser 3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36.1 Debian configuration management sy exim4-config recommends no packages. exim4-config suggests no packages. -- Configuration Files: /etc/exim4/passwd.client [Errno 13] Toegang geweigerd: u'/etc/exim4/passwd.client' -- debconf information: exim4/dc_smarthost: exim4/dc_relay_domains: exim4/dc_relay_nets: * exim4/mailname: debian * exim4/dc_localdelivery: mbox format in /var/mail/ * exim4/dc_local_interfaces: ::1 * exim4/dc_minimaldns: false * exim4/dc_other_hostnames: debian * exim4/dc_eximconfig_configtype: local delivery only; not on a network exim4/no_config: true exim4/hide_mailname: exim4/dc_postmaster: exim4/dc_readhost: * exim4/use_split_config: false exim4/exim4-config-title: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
