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Old 04-09-2003, 11:48 PM   #1
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Can someone explain how this worked?

I was just playing around on my Slackware box, and i sent an email to my hotmail account from the command line using the 'mail' command. I didnt think it would work or anything, but when I checked my hotmail account a week later, i got an email from root@osiris.example.org... How did that work?

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Old 04-10-2003, 12:23 AM   #2
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well, ur ISP allowed the 'relaying' of your mail (which is from a nonexistent domain).
 
Old 04-10-2003, 12:22 PM   #3
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If you're asking a more fundamental 'how did that work' it's because you have an MTA installed such as exim or sendmail.

If you have a FQDN or even a free service like no-ip you can create your own email addresses.
 
  


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