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    From Adam H. Kerman@ahk@chinet.com to comp.mail.pine on Tue Sep 19 23:30:50 2023
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    I'm getting very long timeouts during IMAP while submitting credentials.
    The host I'm using has a weird issue in which the server farm took away
    fixed IPv6 addresses as it's changed to a model catering to people who establishing and taking down virtual hosts and get temporary IPv6
    addresses. The host I'm on isn't temporary; this is a lousy model for
    us. The system administrator wants to communicate via IPv4 only to rule
    out that possibility; he still has two fixed IPv4 addresses.

    I don't understand the benefit of that model for other people.

    Is there a command I can give that would use IPv4 for IMAP only or IPv4 throughout all aspects of the alpine session?
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  • From Eduardo Chappa@chappa@washington.edu to comp.mail.pine on Tue Sep 19 20:29:32 2023
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    On Tue, 19 Sep 2023, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

    Is there a command I can give that would use IPv4 for IMAP only or IPv4 throughout all aspects of the alpine session?

    Not to my knowledge. The way to do this is by recompiling alpine and
    during the make process use the command

    make IP6=4
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  • From Adam H. Kerman@ahk@chinet.com to comp.mail.pine on Wed Sep 20 03:01:33 2023
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    Eduardo Chappa <chappa@washington.edu> wrote:
    On Tue, 19 Sep 2023, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

    Is there a command I can give that would use IPv4 for IMAP only or IPv4 >>throughout all aspects of the alpine session?

    Not to my knowledge. The way to do this is by recompiling alpine and
    during the make process use the command

    make IP6=4

    Thanks
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