IPv6-working freemail status

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:37:37PM -0800, SM wrote:
> At 11:00 14-01-10, Frank Bulk - iName.com wrote:
> >Which of the freemail providers (Google, Hotmail, AOL, Yahoo!, etc) have
> >IPv6-based e-mail transport working?  And a working IPv6 webmail?
> 
> These freemail providers currently do not support SMTP over IPv6.
> 
> Some mail filters unfortunately consider MX hosts resolving to IPv6 
> addresses as invalid and the message is rejected because of 
> that.  

Can you name some specifics?  I've had an MX with IPv6 record since
5 years or so, and have not encountered mail unreachables due to that.

> You won't encounter that problem with the freemail providers 
> you mentioned.

I've heard that excuse before.  "Something might break, let's stick to
legacy IP!!" (instead of "find out what breaks, and go fix it").  *sigh*.

Gert Doering
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