-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, February 05, 2003, Roelof Otten wrote...
> AGSAA> I have found a bug which prevents messages to be sent to an > IP AGSAA> address directly (e.g. mailbox@[192.168.203.12]). Here is > a AGSAA> good example. > [192.168.203.12] isn't an ip-address. Leave the brackets and it'll > do as you expected. So the address would be [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The difference is clear when you type the addresses in the editor: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] is immediately underlined as a valid url > mailbox@[192.168.203.12] is seen as plain text. IP addresses in mailing addresses need to be encased in [ ] otherwise the mail doesn't send. They're called domain literals in the RFC (see RFC822 sec 6.2.3). They are strongly suggested AGAINST... but they should work. It is a temporary solution to working around issues such as DNS outages. - -- Jonathan Angliss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQA/AwUBPkFxoiuD6BT4/R9zEQLUJwCg68XP2Ey+KAPXkzP/hfCjd5bNDJYAoPoY m1XGHAc2bf2q017UVzn2OIz+ =oAx4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
