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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
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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>