>Sandy said:
>
>Parsing out an IPv4-like domain and treating it as if it were a
>domain-literal address is a nicety that they (and IMail) offer, but in
>RFC terms they are twisting the meaning of the original address to fit
>a routable purpose, rather than bouncing it immediately.
Ok, I learn something new every day.
> Both situations require that all source, intermediate, and destination
>MTAs "look the other way." "Broken" might indeed be too strong a word,
>then--maybe "trusting" is better, but we all know how far that gets
>you in the mail world...
>And Scott said:
>
>If you are trying to send E-mail directly to the server at 199.79.180.51,
>it must be addressed in the format "FPRD1@[199.79.180.51]". Otherwise, it
>is assumed that you are referring to a host (not an IP) called
"199.79.180.51".
OK, so I am going to send a test message to postmaster@[64.171.65.17] so
that I understand this fully. Lo and behold, it works.
Received: from dst1 [64.171.65.149] by mail.reliance.net with ESMTP
(SMTPD32-7.13) id A2894DE0102; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 12:48:25 -0700
Message-ID: <000801c2754c$b2e26160$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <postmaster@[64.171.65.17]>
Subject: test
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 12:46:19 -0700
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0005_01C27512.065EEA60"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106
X-Declude-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [64.171.65.149]
X-Declude-Spoolname: Dc28904de010296f0.SMD
X-Note: This E-mail was scanned by RelianceSoft, Inc. (www.reliancesoft.com)
for spam.
X-RCPT-TO: <postmaster@[64.171.65.17]>
Status: U
X-UIDL: 300139942
But what is interesting is that Outlook 2002 will not accept [64.171.65.17]
as the domain part of the address, but Outlook Express 5 will.
So once again, everyone is not following the "rules."
John Tolmachoff
IT Manager, Network Engineer
RelianceSoft, Inc.
Fullerton, CA 92835
www.reliancesoft.com
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