On Sun, 28 May 2000, Mark Baker wrote:
> On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 10:52:23PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> > Exim normally knows if a MX record it is going to try points to itself and
> > refuses to send email to it. This prevents mail loops. But, this feature
> > does not work for IPv6 hosts and causes exim to go into a loop when
> > mis-addressed mail is sent:
> [...]
> > I suppose Exim is not doing the right call to get the IPv6 interface list.
>
> Yes, that appears to be the case.
This can't be done (yet) for IPv6 as I understand it. That is why the
Exim notes for IPv6 suggest that you set local_interfaces to tell Exim
what the local interface addresses are. I will improve README.IPV6 for
the next release. It is somewhat decayed.
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