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Mike Murphy wrote:

> bellsouth's dns set up for mail.bellsouth.net is a little non-standard:
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> mail.bellsouth.net
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> mail.bellsouth.net.     9004    IN      A       205.152.59.17
> mail.bellsouth.net.     9004    IN      A       205.152.59.16
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> mail.bellsouth.net MX
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> mail.bellsouth.net.     10800   IN      MX      0 
> mx01.mail.bellsouth.net.
> mail.bellsouth.net.     10800   IN      MX      0 
> mx00.mail.bellsouth.net.
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> mx01.mail.bellsouth.net
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> mx01.mail.bellsouth.net. 1100   IN      A       205.152.59.33
>
> So, as you can see, the machine's answering to the mail.bellsouth.net 
> A record are different than the machines answering to the 
> mail.bellsouth.net MX record. They do this because they want to be 
> able to use 2 different sets of machines to handle incoming mail and 
> outgoing mail, while using the same dns record. Strictly speaking, 
> there is nothing wrong with this.
>
> However, it requires a little trick to get sendmail (and other MTAs) 
> to understand it correctly. If you put mail.bellsouth.net in brackets, 
> ie [mail.bellsouth.net], in your sendmail.mc, that tells sendmail to 
> do a straight lookup of the A name, instead of looking up MX's and 
> following the priorities implied in those records.
>
> In other words, try it with brackets around the servername in your 
> sendmail.mc, and sendmail will work correctly.
>
> Its a good thing too, since Bellsouth blocks port 25 *inbound*, 
> preventing you from receiving mail directly from the outside world.
>
> Mike
>
>
> Adrin Story wrote:
>
>> I hate to start this again. BUT until I get my password sent to 
>> change my ale email and also look through the archives I have this 
>> age old problem.
>>
>> I have changed internet providers after almost 10 years with the same 
>> ISP.  I was just tried of the dropped service and cost.  I wish I 
>> could have used something like speedfactory or speakeasy but I am to 
>> far away from the CO, by about 2,000 feet for the new higher speed 
>> connections.  So bellsouth it is now.    Now the questions
>>
>> I was using sendmail, fetchmail and netscape to do email.   But the 
>> after editing the sendmail.mc file and remaking sendmail.cf. I still 
>> can't email other accounts from the command line.  So perhaps I am 
>> missing something.  Thought all I had to do was change the smarthost 
>> setting?  I get a bounce back
>>
>> (reason: 550 .net 022: Your current IP address is not allowed to 
>> relay to mindspring.com Solution: Connect using BellSouth Internet 
>> Service.)
>>
>> I am assuming at this point sendmail will never work right. So I need 
>> a solution.  I would like is to use my linux box as a email server 
>> LDAP? Have it download email from email accounts and put them in a 
>> system user account or accounts.  Then I could setup my own spam 
>> filters and blocks and have family use that email account. Would help 
>> me stop bad attachments in the future?
>>
>> Perhaps this will move me that much closer to a PDC with SAMBA in the 
>> future.
>>
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>> by the way,  I understand that the netscape mailer works different.  
>> I can email out and my from address has the correct email address of 
>> the old account.
>> Adrin
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