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Re: emailing by IP question



On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 10:29:54AM -0500, Lance_Hoffmeyer@augustmail.com wrote:
| Is it possible to send email by IP instead of Domain?

Yes.

| No one does it and I have never seen an example of it
| but it seems possible?  If so, how?  What would be an 
| example?

echo "hello world" | mail -s "test message" dsh8290@129.21.3.3

Domains resolve to IPs anyways, though RFC 2821 (the SMTP RFC) says
that using domains is recommended.

-D



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