OT: set sendmail client IPv6 address

[Julian Field]

Apparently Postfix has an option "smtp_bind_address6" which sets the 
IPv6 source address of outgoing SMTP connections.
This is useful if your Postfix server has, like many IPv6-configured 
boxes, more than 1 IPv6 address.

Can you do the same in sendmail?
If so, how?

In RedHat 5 and presumably CentOS 5, you always get a global IPv6 
address based on the MAC address of the ethernet card combined with your 
local IPv6 subnet.
We always add another global IPv6 address based on the machine's role as 
well, so that their IPv6 addresses in the DNS don't depend on the MAC 
address of the ethernet card. Sensible if you don't want to have to 
update your DNS just because a network card dies.

So how do I either
a) Stop RedHat 5 + CentOS 5 creating a global IPv6 address based on the 
MAC address,
and/or
b) Set the source IPv6 address of client SMTP connections my mail server 
makes to the outside world
?

All ideas welcome!

Cheers,
Jules.

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