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alvarnell

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I know that you are still unable to process IPv6 and although I don't understand why it has taken so long, I'm only a programming hack, so I fully accept this explanation.

But in looking at this report that my wife just received

<http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z5289635500z16378c05fd5d4dde0a8c11817145f277z> I see only one IPv6 associated with server <MailboxCluster3.adsroot.uts.edu.au> which I can easily locate as IP 138.25.27.135. I'm not understanding why you would not use such a workaround to process such spam?

There is no way to know whether they intentionally inserted an IPv6 to thwart SpamCop in this case, but I'm sure you are aware of instances where that has been done.

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I know that you are still unable to process IPv6 and although I don't understand why it has taken so long, I'm only a programming hack, so I fully accept this explanation.

But in looking at this report that my wife just received

<http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z5289635500z16378c05fd5d4dde0a8c11817145f277z> I see only one IPv6 associated with server <MailboxCluster3.adsroot.uts.edu.au> which I can easily locate as IP 138.25.27.135. I'm not understanding why you would not use such a workaround to process such spam?

There is no way to know whether they intentionally inserted an IPv6 to thwart SpamCop in this case, but I'm sure you are aware of instances where that has been done.

The main problem as to why IPv6 is taking so long is, how can you properly check for accurate IPv6 headers? Below is a snippet of email that I get which uses IPv6 in transit. I was not immediately able to locate the RFC that is more specific than RFC 2822. RFC 2822 does not dictate the format as exact as one would like. This can make decoding the lines by scri_pt or program more difficult to decode.

Received: from hub.freebsd.org (hub.freebsd.org [iPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36])

by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22EA01587C2;

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:37:01 +0000 (UTC)

Received: from hub.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1])

by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C3841065675;

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:37:01 +0000 (UTC)

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Parsing IPv6 headers requires a huge and complicated change to SpamCop's code.

- Don D'Minion - SpamCop Admin -

- service[at]admin.spamcop.net -

Please have a look at this tracker:

http://www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z5365951489zf...02d05da767f8ebz

There is an IPv6, but it occurs entirely within a domain that is on my mailhosts list, rollernet.us.

Rollernet received the email from yahoo.com.

Until the IPv6 parser is ready, could something such as this be treated as an exception?

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