[ale] sending mail to bellsouth.net

[Keith Hopkins]

kenn at refriedgeek.com wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> Hmm... OK. Sent a message to a friend at Bellsouth and recieved it back with
> a 220 error saying that they do not relay for my IP address... I am
> confused. How could I have gotten that error? Why di they think I was trying
> to relay through them? I don't think it was my mail server, ( which I am a
> little paraniod about cause I just set up Courier ) I did not botch the
> address either. I am thinking that Bellsouth foobared somewhere but how and
> why and where?
> 
> Any mail server gurus with an idea what happened in that transaction?
> 
> Thanks
> Ken
> 


I'm not sure if this applies to you in this case, but it is common practice among ISP, that unless your hostname resolves to an IP address, and your IP address resolves to a valid hostname, they will drop your mail on the assumption that you are a spammer.
This has been in place at Bellsouth, AOL, and others for several months.

Lost in Tokyo,
   Keith



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