On 24/02/2019 18:11, Ian Zimmerman via Exim-dev wrote: >> I'd expect conversion to unabbreviated form to have been done too. > > Do you mean I can expect an IPv6 address (mapped or not) to have exactly > 7 separators, whatever these might be? If yes, there is no ambiguity.
That is my hope. But hope is all it is. This is why I say you need to test. And leave the testcases in the testsuite. > > I think I must keep in mind 2 cases: > > 1. Addresses coming from exim itself, for example $sender_host_address. > Unfortunately the spec doesn't say what format this is in (if it is > IPv6). Can you enlighten me about this? That specific expansion returns whatever the library inet_ntop() does. The Linux manpage says, for ipv6, "the most appropriate ... format". I think that means "abbreviated". It does note that ipv6-mapped ipv4 addresses are converted to ipv6, which I assume means "no dotted tail section" (it lists that as a bug, so it could change sometime). > 2. Addresses explicitly written into the configuration by user. This > one is about what I can require from users. I need to document that in > the experimental documentation file. I'm hoping it turns out that you can handle all reasonable input representations with minimal effort, so placing few restrictions on the user. -- Cheers, Jeremy -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-dev Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
