Re: [cobalt-users] Acceptance of domain literals problem

[David Lucas <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:22 PM 3/16/2003, you wrote:
> Gerald Waugh wrote:
>
> > The test your using at  www.dnsreport.com  wants brattain.com to 
> receive email
> > addresed to postmaster...
> > The only 'user' postmaster is the server.
> > If brattain.com is the server then you may have a problem.
> > If you want to get rid of the error, use an email server alias of 
> postmaster
> > for the site admin of brattain.com
>
> I don't know about Qubes (which aren't inherently multi-domain systems)
> but on the RaQs all domains have the postmaster alias by default.
>
> And that's not the failed test, anyway, as Santiago has pointed out.
>
> The problem is that no domain is accepting email at
> "postmaster@[64.65.134.155]"; there's a relevant rfc (see my last post)
> that requires mail sent to both the I.P. and the I.P. surrounded by
> square brackets to receive email (postmaster@[64.65.134.155] is just the
> test that dnsreport.com tries, and the results are simply an example).
> Somehow his Qube3 and our RaQ3 aren't.

Actually it doesn't have to be "postmaster".  It can be any user, and that 
was user and not alias.
Big thing was your comment to use the square brackets!!!  as the earlier 
post I don't think that was stressed for us non... people.
DNS didn't make a difference, it was the "[]"'s

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