Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 20:03:54 -0700 From: "William H. Hiatt III" <william@corp.hiatt.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@cpl.net> Subject: Re: sending mail to IP address? Message-ID: <36202019.54AD247C@corp.hiatt.net> References: <19981010193509.21785@cpl.net>
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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
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