Hello Roelof Otten, On or about Wednesday, February 05, 2003 at 21:41:18GMT +0100 (which was 3:41 PM in the tropics where I live) Roelof Otten ruminated:
JA>> IP addresses in mailing addresses need to be encased in [ ] JA>> otherwise the mail doesn't send. They're called domain literals in JA>> the RFC (see RFC822 sec 6.2.3). They are strongly suggested JA>> AGAINST... but they should work. It is a temporary solution to JA>> working around issues such as DNS outages. RO> I stand corrected. They aren't mentioned in rfc2822 and I didn't check RO> rfc2821 (where they are mentioned in sec 4.1.3) before I was rebuked. RO> Without [] I got a test delivered and with I didn't, so I thought... When I try it without the brackets, it gets rejected as 'not routeable' and when I try to send it with them, I get 'domain literals not allowed' and the mailer TO: line changes to; spike@[205\.214\.214\.80] Oh well, let's hope there are no DNS failures!! -- Warmest tropical wishes, Spike "One way to better your lot is to do a lot better..." -------------------------------------------------- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign - Against HTML Mail \ / If it aint a webpage it shouldn't be HTML. X Say NO! to bloatmail - ban HTML mail! / \ Ask Spikey, he hates everything (HTML). -------------------------------------------------- Using TheBat! v1.61 hamstrung by Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 3 -------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
