On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, alissa bader wrote:
> if you only have an ip address though, you might be
> able to send mail, but how would you receive it?
well, I just sent mail from my work account to surmonde@[63.68.131.237]
and received it here. I suspect that this *may* require specific setup of
your MTA (but I could be wrong) but apparently works (of course, you have
to have the right IP address -- obviously, if you don't have sendmail on
your machine and relay through someone, then you'd have to have the IP of
the server you receive mail on, *not* your workstation, but I think that's
apparent)
> not user@domainname. and this might throw a lot of
> people off.
You bet. Like I said, I don't suggest it, but it is technically possible.
> 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?
Someone want to test send something to their IP on a box where they know
the mail set up (I don't admin this box) and tell us? Anyway, this is (I
hope) all academic, because I still don't think it's a good idea -- first
because of the obvious social problems (try remember an email address is
user@IP vs user@domain -- not to mention remember those square brackets
and such) and second because it's a lot easier to update DNS than to try
to get everyone, once they remember an IP address, to change to a
different IP address, should you have to change IPs (not to mention
scalability issues, etc etc)
> anyone know if there's an rfc or anything regarding
> this out there somewhere?
I tried searching the RFCs and decided there's way too many for me to want
to read :)
V.
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