Re: IPv6 address literal issue in 'smtp'

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 02:30:50PM -0800, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote:

> I've run into an issue with the IPv6 support in postfix when it is
> set up to deliver to a literal IPv6 address in the transport table.
> It looks like 'smtpd' will only accept IPv6 address literals in RFC
> 2821 format while 'smtp' will only accept IPv6 address literals in
> the unadorned form (without the ipv6: prefix).

The documented smtp(8) nexthop syntax is:

    http://www.postfix.org/smtp.8.html

    SMTP DESTINATION SYNTAX
        SMTP destinations have the following form:

        ...

        [address]:port
              Connect to the host at the specified address, and
              connect to the specified port (default: smtp). An
              IPv6 address must be formatted as [ipv6:address].

If this is not the case, perhaps you are reporting a bug, rather
than a missing feature?

-- Viktor.

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