Re: why I can't receive email?

From: Shawn Bayern (shawn.bayern@yale.edu)
Date: Sat Jan 29 2000 - 08:31:17 EST


On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Yahoo mail wrote:

> Here is a newbie's question. I installed Redhat 6.1 with ethernet
> connection. I have no problem sending out emails, but when I
> try to send emails from outside, those emails were always bouced back
> with error message:
[...]
> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> <root@130.132.197.223>

What made you think that email address would work?

Use root@net197-223.student.yale.edu instead. (Even better, set up a user
account to receive mail at... but that's a different issue.)

Shawn



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