Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 13:26:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline <kline@sage.thought.org> To: mph@pobox.com (Matthew Hunt) Cc: kline@thought.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail//sendmail question Message-ID: <199805162026.NAA20370@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <19980516135814.A10424@flarn.dyn.ml.org> from Matthew Hunt at "May 16, 98 01:58:14 pm"
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According to Matthew Hunt: > On Fri, May 15, 1998 at 10:50:15AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > If I say ``mail myfriend@10.0.0.2'' or the like, zip. Is there some > > somemail configuration to achieve this magic? Or smail3.X? > > In mail addresses, IP's need to be enclosed in square brackets. > > Try "mail myfriend@[10.0.0.2]" and see if that helps. > > This worked: specifying my internal IP: $ `mail myfriend@[10.0.0.2]' (using ash). But sendmail -bv myfriend@sage.thought.org routes the mail to my uucp-dom Smarthost (tera). In /etc/hosts I have 10.2 declared properly. I'd think that sendmail would the hosts file before going off to check with ^DS first. sendmail gurus? thanks.... gary -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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