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by **M. Buchenried** » Sat, 13 Sep 1997 04:00:00

>I set up a mail server using smail, and can sent outgoing mail
>from the server through ISP's mailhost.
>Because there is no DNS for the IP address for my mail
>server, I try to send E-mail to my mail srver from outside by using
>using the machine's IP as domain part, but it won't work.

This is a perfectly legal way of addressing. But it will only work
if your smail config files have been setup to use SMTP AND if a
working IP connection has been established prior to you sending out the
message (including a reachable DNS server, IIRC)
otherwise all those messages will end in the /var/spool/smail/error
directory.

Quote:>Would someone please give me some advices?

Please use comp.mail.smail, as this is completely Linux-unrelated.

Michael
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by **M. Buchenried** » Sat, 13 Sep 1997 04:00:00

>>Because there is no DNS for the IP address for my mail
>>server, I try to send E-mail to my mail srver from outside by using
>>using the machine's IP as domain part, but it won't work.
>The correct syntax is:

Ooops. You're of course correct. I was overlooking the obvious.

Michael
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