Re: root's mail

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 07:49:13PM +0200, scan wrote:
> try [email protected]@123.123.123.123
> 
> and care the percent hack conf in your mta to get it work.
> 
> regards~andreas
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Jason Dale
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 12:09 PM
> > To: Seawolf List
> > Subject: root's mail 
> > 
> > 
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > Does anyone know how to send mail to an IP address rather
> > than a domain name, for example, sending mail to 
> >  
> >  [email protected]
> >  
> > I have put the IP address 1.2.3.4 in the 'local-host-names' file
> > and restarted sendmail. Even that did not work. I get 
> > "Unrouteable mail domain 1.2.3.4" error messages.
> >  
> >  Any ideas?
> >  
> >  Thanks, Jason
> >  
I don't why you people are making this so complicated. An entry in /etc/aliases will
do the trick. I do this all the time. Just run newaliases after changing the file.
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