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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: libc.so.3.0 ????? Where the hell can i get this library?
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 07:54:15 +0000
Organization: Erol's Internet Services
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Message-ID: <32521FA7.5FBB@www.play-hookey.com>
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Frederic G. MARAND wrote:
> 
> "David M. Fogarty" <chaos@wsg.net> wrote:
> 
> >Ken Bigelow wrote:
> 
> >> > > please email to
> >> > >
> >> > > tom@205.179.167.58
> >>
> >> I tried to send it both ways as requested, but got a "host unknown"
> >> response and my e-mail returned.
> 
> >You can't really e-mail to an ip from most systems as it will try to
> >look up the host _name_ 205.179.167.58 which will obviously fail since
> >it's not a name....  There are some that will deliver directly to an IP
> >if all else fails but unless yours is configured to do so...It's a no
> >go.
> 
> There IS a workaround if the host is directly connected: you can send
> the message manually using SMTP, for instance with
> "telnet 205.179.167.58 smtp" which will connect you to the SMTP
> server. You can then send the message manually using SMTP data
> transfer. Unwieldy, but I did it a couple of times.

It usually works for me if I do it as recipient@[w.x.y.z] -- the
brackets make the difference. Maybe I overlooked them that time.
-- 
Ken

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