Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 23:10:21 -0500 (CDT) From: "David L. Vondrasek" <david@davidv.net> To: Dan Langille <junkmale@xtra.co.nz> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Shawn Ramsey <shawn@cpl.net> Subject: Re: sending mail to IP address? Message-ID: <199810110412.XAA04404@ns1.davidv.net> In-Reply-To: <199810110311.QAA15514@cyclops.xtra.co.nz>
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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
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