[imp] IMP and IPv6

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:

> Quoting Ernie Dunbar <maillist at lightspeed.ca>:
>
>> Does IMP not support IPv6?
>>
>> The reason I ask is that we've finally started using IPv6 on our server
>> network, and now that we have AAAA records in our DNS for our servers, IMP
>> is extremely slow when using the FQDN of our mail server. If I switch to
>> the IPv4 address, the problem goes away.
>>
>> IMP and Horde et al *really* need to support IPv6. There's no excuse for
>> that in this day and age.
>
> Horde and IMP don't generally care about IPv4 vs. IPv6. Can you do  
> some digging into where the slowdown is? Are you sure that there's  
> no v6->v4 translation happening? Is it in the c-client library?  
> Etc... If it seems to be happening in PHP's IMAP functions, it'd be  
> worth trying Horde 4/IMP 5, which uses our own IMAP lib over PHP  
> socket functions.

What Chuck said.  IP configuration fields should be passed as-is to  
the relevant PHP function used to make a network connection.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]