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rfs9999

IMAP Tools
Yes, it seems that Yahoo is having problems. Sometime this morning I started getting the following error when connecting to their IMAP server on the SSL port (993):

Error connecting to imap.yahoo.com: IO::Socket::INET6 configuration failed

-Rick
 

EQ Admin

EQ Forum Admin
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Do you prefer and try the IPv6 record first or did that happen because the connection using IPv4 failed?

Technically looking at both the A and AAAA responses they both come back as CNAMEs, but I'm still wondering if you have an ipv6 vs ipv4 preference in your scripting based on the error above.

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;imap.mail.yahoo.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
imap.mail.yahoo.com. 145 IN CNAME imap4-rr.mail.global.gm0.yahoodns.net.
imap4-rr.mail.global.gm0.yahoodns.net. 145 IN CNAME imap4-rr.mail.any.am0.yahoodns.net.
imap4-rr.mail.any.am0.yahoodns.net. 145 IN CNAME imap4-rr.mail.us.am0.yahoodns.net.
imap4-rr.mail.us.am0.yahoodns.net. 145 IN A 66.196.81.222
imap4-rr.mail.us.am0.yahoodns.net. 145 IN A 98.138.227.202
imap4-rr.mail.us.am0.yahoodns.net. 145 IN A 67.195.13.49


;; QUESTION SECTION:
;imap.mail.yahoo.com. IN AAAA

;; ANSWER SECTION:
imap.mail.yahoo.com. 136 IN CNAME imap4-rr.mail.global.gm0.yahoodns.net.
imap4-rr.mail.global.gm0.yahoodns.net. 136 IN CNAME imap4-rr.mail.any.am0.yahoodns.net.
imap4-rr.mail.any.am0.yahoodns.net. 136 IN CNAME imap4-rr.mail.us.am0.yahoodns.net.
 

rfs9999

IMAP Tools
Well, I am not sure what is going on. My web just got an SSL upgrade so that might be the reason; however, I have no trouble connecting to Outlook.com or Gmail on the SSL IMAP port, just Yahoo.

My code has a preference for IPV4. The following code snippet specifies an IPV4 connection: 'Domain => AF_INET'.

$$conn = IO::Socket::SSL->new(
Proto => "tcp",
SSL_verify_mode => 0x00,
PeerAddr => $host,
PeerPort => $port,
Domain => AF_INET,
);

The odd thing is that unlike my web site my test server is not having trouble making an SSL connection to Yahoo. So I am not certain what is going on.

-Rick
 
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