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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Sill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: hosts not known by DNS
If the email accounts are on host R and R itself isn't known by DNS then you
will need to address the in the format of user@[10.11.12.13]. Of course I
didn't fully understand the question upon first reading so may be off-base
here.
dG
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >I need to send emails from a host S that uses qmail as a MTA for sending
> >special emails to a special host R that is not known by DNS. Usually the
> >host S sends all his outgoing mail traffic to a mail hub.
> >
> >Our maintenance company says that qmail is unable to send mails to this
> >host in this setting.
> >
> >Is there an easier way, than writing an own mail client that is used by
the
> >program on host S that needs to send mails to this special host R, to
solve
> >our problem?
>
> Yeah, put an entry for R in control/smtproutes (see "man
> qmail-remote"). E.g., if R is r.example.com with IP address
> 10.11.12.13, add an entry like:
>
> r.example.com:[10.11.12.13]
>
> and all mail addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] will be sent to
> 10.11.12.13.
>
> -Dave
