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Re: [Nmh-workers] specifying SMTP server in mts.conf broken by TLS certi
From: |
Ralph Corderoy |
Subject: |
Re: [Nmh-workers] specifying SMTP server in mts.conf broken by TLS certificate changes |
Date: |
Mon, 20 Feb 2017 16:20:57 +0000 |
Hi Ken,
> we have to decide how to parse that, assuming that you just want to
> add something to the server hostname. As I've learned recently you
> can't use a colon as a separator because that's a valid character in
> an IPv6 address.
The rule for URLs is to enclose the IPv6 address in brackets, with the
`:42' following.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_address#Literal_IPv6_addresses_in_network_resource_identifiers
It seems to have spread beyond URLs now, e.g. Postfix.
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Cheers, Ralph.
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- Re: [Nmh-workers] specifying SMTP server in mts.conf broken by TLS certificate changes, (continued)
Re: [Nmh-workers] specifying SMTP server in mts.conf broken by TLS certificate changes, Ken Hornstein, 2017/02/19