send e-mail without use sendmail

Frank Cox theatre at sasktel.net
Thu Nov 1 02:41:28 UTC 2007


On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:05:11 -0500
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:

> You must have a real domain name to send email. 

Is there any technical reason (other than "we hate spammers") why email can't
be sent to an IP address instead of a domain name?

I know that mail sent to joeblow at 123.456.789.001 doesn't work, but have never
really understood why...

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MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com




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