From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 10 20:07:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA04019 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 20:07:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.corp.hiatt.net (cx80894-b.alsv1.occa.home.com [24.1.171.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA03662 for ; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 20:03:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from william@corp.hiatt.net) Received: from corp.hiatt.net (client-pc1@gateway.corp.hiatt.net [24.1.173.119]) by mail.corp.hiatt.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id UAA23208; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 20:05:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <36202019.54AD247C@corp.hiatt.net> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 20:03:54 -0700 From: "William H. Hiatt III" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b2 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG CC: Shawn Ramsey Subject: Re: sending mail to IP address? References: <19981010193509.21785@cpl.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I believe the correct address should be: shawn@[209.150.92.68] In otherwords, surround the IP address with brackets. will Shawn Ramsey wrote: > Is it possible to send mail to an IP address? I put the IP address in > sendmail.cw, and if I send the mail from the same machine sendmail is on, it > works. But if I do it from any other machine, either outside our network or > in, I get the following error in maillog : > > Oct 10 19:31:45 solo sendmail[4201]: TAA04199: to=shawn@209.150.92.68, ctladdr=shawn > (1028/1001), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, > relay=209.150.92.68, stat=Host unknown (Name server: 209.150.92.68: > host not found) > > Any suggestions would be appreciated, even though this message is really off > topic. :-) > > Thanks. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message