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?

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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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