> Add the following lines to your sendmail.mc:
>
> DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA-IPv4, Family=inet')
> DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA-IPv6, Family=inet6')
>
> This is for 8.11.6. My only problem is that MTA-IPv6 also catches IPv4
> traffic for some reason - but I don't think that's Sendmail's fault.
> In either case it's not a big issue.
>
> Also, a disclaimer: I do not _know_ if this works. Sendmail listens on
> IPv6 (``telnet ::1 25'' is your friend) but I have yet to see a mail
> being delivered over IPv6 in my logs. Maybe some day it will happen.
>
>
> Michael Kj�rling
>
>
> On Feb 4 2002 10:29 +0530, Sharath Kumar Gajare wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> > I have been working on modifying sendmail to use ipv6. While i was
> > successfull in using sendmail to send emails to users on the same machine, i
> > was not lucky enough for hosts across the network. For users on local
> > machines - i changed the /etc/mail/sendmail.mc(added my local host ipv6
> > addresses{ ::1, link local addrs, global scope addrs) and did a
> > "m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf" and then restarted
> > "/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail".
> >
> > What would i have to do to get sendmail working across machines? Any
> > leads/suggestions would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Sharath.
>
> - --
> Michael Kj�rling -- Programmer/Network administrator ^..^
> Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- FidoNet: 2:204/254.4 \/
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>
> ``And indeed people sometimes speak of man's "bestial" cruelty, but
> this is very unfair and insulting to the beasts: a beast can never be
> so cruel as a man, so ingeniously, so artistically cruel.''
> (Ivan Karamazov, in Dostoyevsky's 'The Brothers Karamazov')
FWIW, my internal machines exchange mail over IPv6 with the above
options - it works fine. The headers of this mail should be an
example.
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