You are correct and I was wrong. smtproutes does not need the []s.
dns_ip() is coded such that it is simply looking for a dotted quad IP
address, regardless of whether there are braces. :)
Sorry for the confusion on my part. DJB is fairly strict on his syntax
for other files and it surprises me that it is not the case for
smtproutes.
On Thu, 6 May 1999, Chris Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 04:00:49PM -0400, Timothy L. Mayo wrote:
> > According to the qmail-remote man page, the brackets ARE required.
> >
> > "host can be either a fully-qualified domain name:
> >
> > silverton.berkeley.edu
> >
> > or an IP address enclosed in brackets:
> >
> > [128.32.183.163]"
>
> The bit you've referenced has nothing to do with what goes in
> control/smtproutes. The above is a requirement for the 'host' argument to
> qmail-remote.
>
> The qmail-remote man page seems to suggest that you shouldn't use IP addresses
> in smtproutes at all: "...qmail-remote will connect to relay, as if host had
> relay as its only MX." Since an MX record can't be an IP address--only a host
> name--this might lead one to believe that only a host name should appear after
> the colon. We know, however, that it does work with IP addresses. The man page
> doesn't address using IP addresses at all, with or without brackets.
>
> Chris
>
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