Re: [Exim] Exim rejects valid IPv6 literal in EHLO.

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Autor: Philip Hazel
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A: David Woodhouse
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Assumpte: Re: [Exim] Exim rejects valid IPv6 literal in EHLO.
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, David Woodhouse wrote:

> Your fix for this differs from mine. It accepts IPv6 literals even when
> IPv6 isn't configured in -- which is OK, I suppose -- but it also
> accepts IPv4 addresses with of the form [IPv4:xx.xx.xx.xx], and IPv6
> addresses _without_ the 'IPv6:' prefix; neither of which I see
> documented in RFC2821. Is this intentional permissiveness?


Yes. The latter for backwards compatibility.

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