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upload small file to a very large number of emails using star operator '*' just before at '@' and IP

Hi all,

I was reading RFCs and am now wondering how to use the '*' wildcard char to send emails to all the users mailboxes of a given server with the IP
I use IPs instead of domain names for efficiency and the domain name gets translated to IP anyways using DSN and the IP approche lets me
get exhaustive list of IPs. Or coarse there are reserved/excluded IPs such as 127.0.0.1 (loopback).

For example mail *@1.0.0.1 < email.txt => sends email.txt to all users of https://www.cloudflare.com/

This approach has several advantages, first its exhaustive. don't need to input all domain names, second you don't get "mail undelivered"
email messages bouncing back to mailbox for non existing users. third for stealth (using Tor or coarse) make you email untracable.

The only thing the receiving end user sees is "@" in "From:"

I have tried different approaches for *@1.0.0.1 but the command fails even when using mutt, pine, etc

any ideas ?

thank's

on March 15, 2020
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    Forgive me if I've misread your post/question but it looks like you want to send unsolicited Spam to potentially hundreds of thousands of real people who you assume really want to spend their time receiving and reading your email.txt file....

    Mail servers tend to go to great lengths to prevent this kind of action. Thank goodness.

    If your instruction made it through to a listening mail server on your given IP, wouldn't that then check to see if a real mailbox existing with the name '*' ? Realise it didn't and then just reject.

    Either way, I'm not sure how what you're suggesting helps this community or anyone else