On 23-Sep-2003/20:34 -0500, christopher j bottaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >ok, since i've been trying to get procmail to work for the past few days, >i've also gotten interested in how email works in general. i noticed on >my home system, i can email between all my users just by using mutt and >emailing to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" or even just emailing to >"username". when i do that, i notice that stuff ends up in >/var/spool/mail/username. interesting. so i thought, maybe i can email >myself from outside my lan, i.e. send an email to >"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" from an external email account (like >hotmail) and it would end up in /var/spool/email/cjb and i would be able >to see it with mutt. wrong! why not though? where can i read about how >email work in linux? specifically redhat 9?
The correct format for using an IP address in an email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] The square brackets are required. This is a deprecated feature of SMTP and may not be supported by the sending mail software. That said, the default in RH9 is for sendmail not to listen for external connections. On top of that, your ISP may be blocking incoming connections on port 25 that are not destined for it's SMTP servers. Tony -- Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Messenger: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> Linux. The choice of a GNU generation <http://www.linux.org/> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
