Frank Cox wrote:
You must have a real domain name to send email.
Is there any technical reason (other than "we hate spammers") why email can't
be sent to an IP address instead of a domain name?
I know that mail sent to joeblow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx doesn't work, but have never
really understood why...
Mail is a special case in DNS since most organizations want delivery to
be directed to a small number of servers, so the host/domain lookup
always tries to follow MX records. If you want to use a literal IP
address you have to enclose it in []'s to skip the MX lookup (and if you
are doing it on the command line, enclose in ''s because the []' are
shell metacharacters). mail 'joeblow@[123.0.0.1]' will attempt a
connection, but the receiving system may still not like it.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
