The whole point is that you are tying to do SMTP AUTH to relay mail.
Virtual Host "without" IP addresses just don't do that because that hostname
is not able to resolve to a static IP address. Should they is a whole
different story.
----- Original Message -----
From: A.J. Ostman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 1:40 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] virtual hosts
> Quentin,
>
> (awwww) I wish I could talk in person to some of you. I realize how an
> IP address would eliminate the need for including the domain name in the
> username, but it seems to me that all the resolving can be done based on
> the username%domain, since the doman is included. Who cares what IP
> address it comes from? It has the necessary domain information in the
> USERNAME to validate it or not. I understand the IP problem if I was
> only providing the username, but since the username includes the DOMAIN
> name.. there should be no need to RESOLVE a host name from the
> connection, but it should be overriden by the domain name in the
> username.
>
> -A.J.
>
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