Bug#610918: exim4: Fails to start when kernel does not support ipv6

Samuel Thibault sthibault at debian.org
Mon Jan 24 18:22:49 UTC 2011


Andreas Metzler, le Mon 24 Jan 2011 19:03:36 +0100, a écrit :
> > exim4 should probably not completely fail when such EAFNOSUPPORT error
> > is returned.
> [...]
> 
> I tend to disagree. If I explicitely tell exim to do the impossible,
> failing safely instead of hiding the error by starting anyway is not
> the worst choice.

Ok, then Debian shouldn't ask exim to do the impossible by including ::1
in the list of listening addresses.

Samuel





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