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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news1.mpcs.com!hgoldste From: hgoldste@bbs.mpcs.com (Howard Goldstein) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: No incoming mail Date: 7 Jun 1996 16:16:14 GMT Organization: disorganization Lines: 19 Message-ID: <slrn4rglef.h1o.hgoldste@bbs.mpcs.com> References: <31b82c75.8010668@news.ameritel.net> Reply-To: hg@n2wx.ampr.org NNTP-Posting-Host: bbs.mpcs.com X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.5) On Fri, 07 Jun 1996 13:19:50 GMT, Scott Gregory <sgregory@pubspo.hq.af.mil> wrote: : I have set up a 2.1 machine. I can send mail inside and outside the : system, but noone can send mail to the system from the outside. I : don't have a domain name (known to anyone other than the BSD box), : just an IP address which is where I send the mail. I keep getting a : host unknown error. If I'm sending mail directly to the IP address : why am I getting that error?? : : Why can't I receive mail??? How are they addressing the mail? IIRC sendmail wants to see something like: sgregory@[127.0.0.1] -- Howard Goldstein <hg@n2wx.ampr.org>