Re: root's mail

[Budai Laszlo <lbudai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, if you don't need to send mails often to that IP address, then you 
can do it by telneting to the 25 port of the destinatuon machine and do 
the SMTP protocol by hand.
(hello, mail from, rcpt to, data, quit)

Good luck
Laszlo

Jason Dale wrote:

> Hi, 
>
> Does anyone know how to send mail to an IP address rather
> than a domain name, for example, sending mail to 
>
> root@xxxxxxx
>
> I have put the IP address 1.2.3.4 in the 'local-host-names' file
> and restarted sendmail. Even that did not work. I get 
> "Unrouteable mail domain 1.2.3.4" error messages.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks, Jason
>
>
>
>  



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