if you only have an ip address though, you might be
able to send mail, but how would you receive it?
i mean, if you are [EMAIL PROTECTED], you could send
mail out, sure. but if users wanted to respond to
you, they'd have to send a message to user@ipaddress,
not user@domainname. and this might throw a lot of
people off.
also, i haven't looked into configuring sendmail that
much really, but i do know that you need to have the
domain name in sendmail.domains in order for the
machine to accept/send out stuff. or hrm. how would
this work with just ip addresses?
anyone know if there's an rfc or anything regarding
this out there somewhere?
--alissa
--- Vinnie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Kath wrote:
>
> > Can you have a mail server without a domain name
> for it (just an IP)?
>
> I do recall having a linux server set up just this
> way in high school (the
> addresses were actually something like
> user@[255.255.255.255] as I recall,
> but don't take that for gospel -- this was five
> years ago and I was a
> user, not an admin on that box)
>
> I strongly suggest *not* doing that, however.
>
> V.
>
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