Bugs item #1268939, was opened at 2005-08-24 19:11 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=100103&aid=1268939...

Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: mail delivery Group: 2.1 (stable) Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Daniel (doolyo) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: host_name tag doesn't allow IP addresses

Initial Comment: Hello.

I have realised that we cannot put an IP address in the 'host_name' tag. Normally, we can send an e-mail from a client to a server that doesn't have a domain name by just putting it's IP address into square brackets like this: john@[142.56.2.72] This works, especially if you have put the same IP address on the destination server in your /etc/mail/local- host-names file on one line (for Sendmail): [142.56.2.72]

Now the problem is that if we specify the IP address into square brackets in the 'host_name' tag, then the resolved hostname is returned in the e-mail address instead of this square brackets IP address. I have tried several backslashes like '', [], "", %5B and % 5D but nothing does.

Square brackets are still correct to the standard, so I think that this is a bug.

Regards, Daniel

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