On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Gustav Schaffter spewed into the bitstream:
GS>Chuck,
GS>
GS>I tried sending mail from one PC to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but that didn't work
GS>neither. I can do both forward and reverse nslookups between the two
GS>PCs. (Actually between all my PCs.)
GS>
GS>Having typed this far I thought "I'll follow his tip to the point" and
GS>tried to send mail to gus@[10.0.0.1] and it worked!!!
We had an acronym for what you were doing when I was in the Army... it was
FFI (failure to follow instructions). :-)
GS>Please, explain to me why. :-)
GS>
GS>> ...and you have MTA's listening on all hosts...
GS>
GS>Could you please be more specific. I'm a real mail illiterate. :-)
The brackets [] tell MTA's (e.g. sendmail, postfix etc.) not to query DNS
but to send directly via IP.
GS>Chuck Mead wrote:
GS>>
GS>> On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Gustav Schaffter spewed into the bitstream:
GS>>
GS>> GS>I feel a little bit stupid here, but...
GS>> GS>
GS>> GS>I have had a few PCs in a LAN for more than a year. I have often sent
GS>> GS>mail between users *within* a PC, but I've never had the need to send
GS>> GS>mail between users in *different* PCs in my LAN. Until now... And it
GS>> GS>doesn't work...
GS>> GS>
GS>> GS>If I send a mail (using 'mail') from PC 'odin.yggdrasil.home' to user
GS>> GS>'[EMAIL PROTECTED]' I get the mail in return with the error 'user
GS>> GS>unknown'. (Yes, the user 'gus' exists on freja.yggdrasil.home)
GS>> GS>
GS>> GS>What do I need to setup to make this work? What do I need to read?
GS>>
GS>> If it's just a small network and you have MTA's listening on all hosts you
GS>> can do it this way and avoid these troubles (which are DNS issues BTW):
GS>>
GS>> mailto:user@[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] (where xxx == ip of destination host)
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