From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 10 21:14:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA11434 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 21:14:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.davidv.net (davidv.net [206.138.229.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA11361 for ; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 21:13:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@davidv.net) Received: from workbox.davidv.net (david@workbox.davidv.net [10.124.239.13]) by ns1.davidv.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA04404; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 23:12:21 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from david@davidv.net) Message-Id: <199810110412.XAA04404@ns1.davidv.net> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199810110311.QAA15514@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 23:10:21 -0500 (CDT) Reply-To: david@davidv.net Organization: My Little unix network at Home From: "David L. Vondrasek" To: Dan Langille Subject: Re: sending mail to IP address? Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Shawn Ramsey Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id VAA11430 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 11-Oct-98 Dan Langille wrote: > On 10 Oct 98, at 19:35, 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) > > I think the problem is DNS isn't it? I'm not sure, but the receiving > host > may be trying to locate you by DNS methods. Just a guess. The IP has to be in blocks as such: shawn@[209.150.92.68] otherwise it see's the Ip as a domain not an IP. But most/some mail servers will reject it. --- Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message