[LUAU] Sendmail

[Chris Wong]

On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Zachary Taylor wrote:

> OK, I answered one of my own questions. If I send mail to
> ztaylor at zach.zach.org, I am able to get the mail. Why won't it let me send
> to ztaylor at 192.168.1.1?

Because RFC822 requires email sent to an IP address to be addressed as
ztaylor@[192.168.1.1]

YOu need those brackets.




> 							Zach
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-luau at luau.hi.net [mailto:owner-luau at luau.hi.net]On Behalf Of
> Zachary Taylor
> Sent: Sunday, December 20, 1998 5:54 PM
> To: luau at luau.hi.net
> Subject: [LUAU] Sendmail
> 
> 
> Ok, I have a stupid problem, which I have been trying to solve with a couple
> of members offline, but I am still stuck. What I want to know is what do I
> have to do to send mail to an account on the same computer. I installed
> RedHat 5.2 and if I login as root (just an example) and I try to send mail
> to an account on the same computer, say ztaylor, the mail never reaches the
> destination. I have tried addressing it to ztaylor at 192.168.1.1 and
> ztaylor at zach.zach.org (The ip and domain name are made up since it is not
> connected to the outside.) After the install what do I need to do to be able
> to send mail to another user account on the same computer.
> 
> PS. when I do "mailq" it shows all the messages I have in the queue, like
> they are not making it out.								Zach
>