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Re: IPv6 address literals probably aren't SMTP either
From: "John Levine" <johnl () iecc com>
Date: 27 Mar 2014 03:28:28 -0000
In article <5333970A.6070107 () direcpath com> you write:
On 3/26/2014 10:16 PM, Franck Martin wrote:and user@2001:db8::1.25 with user@192.0.2.1:25. Who had the good idea to use : for IPv6 addresses while this is theseparator for the port in IPv4? A few MTA are confused by it. At the network level the IPv6 address is just a big number. No confusion there. At the plaintext level the naked IPv6 address should be wrapped in square brackets. From: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.2.2
It's messier than that. See RFC 5321 section 4.1.3. I have no idea whether anyone has actually implemented IPv6 address literals and if so, how closely they followed the somewhat peculiar spec. R's, John
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- Re: IPv6 isn't SMTP, (continued)
- Re: IPv6 isn't SMTP Dave Crocker (Mar 27)
- Re: IPv6 isn't SMTP Lamar Owen (Mar 27)
- Re: IPv6 isn't SMTP Fred Baker (fred) (Mar 26)
- Re: IPv6 isn't SMTP James R Cutler (Mar 26)
- Re: IPv6 isn't SMTP John Levine (Mar 26)
- Re: IPv6 isn't SMTP Tony Finch (Mar 27)
- Re: IPv6 isn't SMTP Enno Rey (Mar 27)
- Re: IPv6 isn't SMTP John R. Levine (Mar 27)
- Re: IPv6 isn't SMTP Franck Martin (Mar 26)
- Re: IPv6 isn't SMTP Robert Drake (Mar 26)
- Re: IPv6 address literals probably aren't SMTP either John Levine (Mar 26)
- Re: IPv6 address literals probably aren't SMTP either Robert Drake (Mar 26)
- Re: IPv6 address literals probably aren't SMTP either John R. Levine (Mar 26)
- Re: IPv6 isn't SMTP Owen DeLong (Mar 26)
- Re: IPv6 isn't SMTP Franck Martin (Mar 27)
- Re: IPv6 isn't SMTP Owen DeLong (Mar 27)
- Re: IPv6 isn't SMTP Tony Finch (Mar 27)
- Re: IPv6 isn't SMTP Jimmy Hess (Mar 25)
- Re: IPv6 isn't SMTP Dave Crocker (Mar 26)