Morgan Wajda-Levie on Thu, 29 Jul 1999 08:10:13 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [Plug] Inability to send e-mail to IPs


On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 02:57:40AM -0400, Kevin Falcone wrote:
> >>>>> "MW" == Morgan Wajda-Levie <mpwl@locke.ccil.org> writes:
> 
>   MW> I'm using smail with Debian potato, and I can't seem to be able
>   MW> to send e-mail to an ip address.  The same e-mail can be sent if
>   MW> the respective ip address's domain name is used.
>   MW> Any thoughts on what's wrong?
> 
> Have you enclosed the IP address in square brackets?  If you are going
> to send to just an IP, you need to do it like this.
> 
> kevinfal@[158.130.64.177] instead of kevinfal@seas.upenn.edu
> 
> -kevin

That's something I never knew.  Thanks :)

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