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RE: [cobalt-users] Recieving mail to postmaster@ip address
- Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Recieving mail to postmaster@ip address
- From: Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat Oct 11 07:22:02 2003
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Dan Kriwitsky wrote:
> > I get all emails for the host domain ns.iseeserv.co.uk like
> > root etc but not when they are sent to the ip address. they
> > bounce back.
> >
> > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors
> > ----- <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > (reason: 550 Host unknown)
> >
> > ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > 550 5.1.2 <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>... Host unknown (Name server:
> > 212.67.000.000: host not found)
> >
>
> I believe the correct format for email to an IP is root@[212.67.000.000]
> Otherwise it's trying to find a 000.000 domain name as if .000 was .com.
Dan is correct! root@[212.67.000.000] will fly, root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx will
fail.
Gerald
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