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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 12:57:58 +0200
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit AT familiehaase DOT de>
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To: Herb Martin <HerbM AT LearnQuick DOT Com>
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Subject: Re: Exim 4.50 with Content filtering and SPF
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Herb Martin wrote:

>>>It looks mostly like IPv6 stuff is causing the glitches.
>>
>>This is the problem with libspf2, making the IPv6 stuff 
>>conditional should do it, but I am not a programmer so I have 
>>not really an idea how to start, all the IP stuff is mixed 
>>together in several functions and it will be some work to do 
>>to divide it into IPv4 and IPv6.
> 
> 
> Although I didn't look at this enough to even have
> a right to an opinion, it occurred to me that SPF
> really does need to be able to process an IPv6 format
> address to calculate SPF correctly.

libspf does not require IPv6 to be present.


> Perhaps just digging up the correct .h file or the
> correct structure settings is the right way to go --
> it's not like SPF actually sends any network data
> other than querying DNS perhaps.
> 
> But when the SPF/txt record comes back from DNS it
> might have 'mechanisms' such as ip6: within it and
> thus the address format for IPv6 will follow.....

IPv6 is not supported with Cygwin, there are no headers.

http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#SHTDI


Gerrit
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