Somewhat OT email addresses

[Jeff Kinz]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 01:29:32PM +1100, Graeme Nichols wrote:
> Hello Folks,
> 
> I know this is somewhat OT but I was wondering if it is possible to send 
> an email with an address in the following format; username@[IP address]
> 
> I have been fiddling around because a person with whom I was writing to 
> has suddenly become unknown, possibly because of DNS failure, I'm not 
> sure, and the mail is returned undeliverable as the domain is unknown. 
> They are having the same problem sending mail to me.
> 
> I did a ping on my ISP's SMTP mail server and while there was a 100% 
> failure rate on the packets, most probably due to some firewall setting, 
> I was given the IP address, in this case, 203.12.160.34
> 
> I sent a test email to name at 203.12.160.34 but it bounced with the 
> following error;



Graeme, I see one issue here that you would need to fix, assuming you
are trying to send am email to someone other than yourself.

You need to enter the IP address of their domain (or their domain's SMTP
server), not the IP of your ISP's SMTP server.

Or have I misunderstood your intent?


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