I would like to see IPv6 support for qmail. I have found a BSD Ports patch on http://www.otsune.com/fswiki/wiki.cgi?page=qmail-ipv6 but I do not know if the patch/.diff file can be integrated with the qmail availbale for Gentoo? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Other sources for IPv6 patch: * http://pyon.org/fujiwara/qmail-1.03-v6-20021006.diff * http://www.blazing.de/qmail/qmail-1.03-v6-20001010.diff * more on Google =)
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IPv6 is definitly something that we need. I'll take look into this soon. Greets, Michael
A quick check of the patch from http://pyon.org/fujiwara/qmail-1.03-v6-20021006.diff showed, that the patch needs to be rediffed. qmail-1.03-v6-20001010.diff is old and has a bug, btw. Greets, Michael
Hello After about two or three hours, I give up after trying hard to merge the IPv6-patch into the new ebuild, -r16. Unfortunately, it requires a lot of changes and clashes with other patches, for example qmail-1.03-moreipme-0.6pre1-gentoo.patch. I think we have to do this later. Sorry. If someone has enough time and understanding of IPv6 and wants provide a patch, please go on. Greets, Michael
Assuming I would plunge into it and go and fix up all other patches, would I get some sort of support? Testing and all? (I'm running a mail server myself which I would like to support sending mail via IPv6, the receiver side is already working) In this time I would be happy if there wouldn't be too much movement so that I don't have to continuously fix up every small change afterwards until it gets included. Where in the patch chain should the IPv6 patch get in? I would personnaly vote for something very early, so that we see what the other patches actually change in IPv4 and IPv6 instead of merging a duplicate for everything else into a jumbo IPv6 patch.
I am looking into the diffs right now and will see what we can do as soon as possible I will bring hansmi in on it seeing he has been handling most of qmail ebuild as of late.
Hello Jory: Thanks for looking into the patches. When I did in January, it would have included almost a rewrite of everything because of the huge modifications that are being done by other patches. Christophe: I would vote for a patch later in the process because otherwise we've to rediff the other patches (which is a pain). Greets, Michael
Yes, but it's more straight-forward. If a patch above the IPv6 patch changes, this would mean that we would have to rediff the IPv6 patch. Since I would assume that the IPv6 patch is more or less stable (and some sort of "core functionality"). Assuming another patch gets a new feature this would mean that the feature might have to be added to the original feature patch and the IPv6 patch, while the other way round we would only have to touch one single patch. Well, anyway, where would you like to place the patch in the chain so that I can start looking?
We are working on getting IPv6 support into qmail-1.03-r16
This is a little off-topic perhaps, but Courier-mta supports IPv6 throughout. Both IMAP, POP3 and SMTP. It may be a valid alternative for those that cannot wait for Qmail patches.
Jory A. Pratt (Anarchy) and I decided to move IPv6 support to -r17, because it's really difficult to implement with our chain of patches.
Is threre still someone on it? Would be really nice :)
Since we won't add custom patches to mail-mta/netqmail beside a few one, this bug can be closed. You can, however, try to use QMAIL_PATCH_DIR.
