[PLUG] Re: sendmail "host not found" error

[Kevin Falcone <kevinfal@seas.upenn.edu>]

>>>>> "JA" == Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com> writes:

  JA> I was perhaps confused. I thought the issue was not wanting to
  JA> have to type the name, and system-wide resolution is one
  JA> way. 

No, the issue was that the original poster had a machine with no
official DNS name, and he wanted to send mail to the ip address to
test his sendmail installation.  The trick is to do user@[ip.address]

There, was that clear now?

-kevin

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