Thijs Kinkhorst:
> Hi,
>
> I was reading the documentation on smtp_address_preference:
>
> | smtp_address_preference (default: any)
> | The address type ("ipv6", "ipv4" or "any") that the Postfix SMTP client
> | will try first, when a destination has IPv6 and IPv4 addresses with equal
> | MX preference. This feature has no effect unless the inet_protocols
> | setting enables both IPv4 and IPv6. With Postfix 2.8 the default is
> | "ipv6".
>
> The header indicates the default to be "any" but I was confused by that
> last sentence that the default would have been changed to "ipv6" since 2.8
> while source code inspection shows that it's only in 2.8 that it was
> "ipv6" and that it has been changed since then.
>
> Maybe it helps to change "is" to "was" or otherwise make it more explicit
> that the final sentence refers only to the 2.8 branch and not to
> later/current versions?
With Postfix before 2.8 the preference is hard-coded. Postfix is
an evolving system, with multiple supported stable releases. Using
past tense for a supported release seems odd, and it is unpractical
to change text from present tense to past tense when a release is
no longer supported.
Wietse
