[ale] Fun with BellSouth, AOL and SMTP

[dcorbin at machturtle.com (David Corbin)]

Good try, but incorrect.  James has had that setup for many months.  Bellsouth 
support is now telling him that they won't relay email that isn't from 
bellsouth.net or has a reply-to of bellsouth.net.  This would really suck.  

However, I have the same set up, and (so far, fingers crossed) I do not have a 
problem

David

On Sunday 29 June 2003 12:52, Jim Kinney wrote:
> You need to adjust the "smart_host" setting in sendmail to use the smtp
> provided by your ISP. It is a anti-spam feature that helps track spammers.
>
> > I'm looking for a sanity check here from anyone else with BellSouth DSL
> > service.
> >
> > Tonight I started seeing this kind of thing in my mail logs:
> > host mx00.mail.bellsouth.net[205.152.59.32] said: 550 .net 022: Your
> > current IP address is not allowed to relay to hotmail.com Solution:
> > Connect using BellSouth Internet Service.
> >
> > I sent a note to dsl_help at bellsouth.net and they confirmed that they're
> > no longer relaying email through mail.bellsouth.net.
> >
> > Unfortunately, AOL (and probably others) refuses to allow incoming email
> > from dynamically assigned IPs:
> >
> > telnet some.aol.mail.host 25
> > 554- (RTR:DU)  The IP address you are using to connect to AOL is a
> > dynamic 554- (residential) IP address.  AOL will not accept future e-mail
> > transactions
> > 554- from this IP address until your ISP removes this IP address from
> > its list
> > 554- of dynamic (residential) IP addresses.  For additional information,
> > 554  please visit http://postmaster.info.aol.com.
> >
> > So what's a fella to do?
> >
> > Has anyone else tripped over this yet?
> >
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