[ale] sending mail to bellsouth.net

[John Mills]

On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Keith Hopkins wrote:
> > 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'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.

I got this error message for (AFAIK) the first time today when replying to
a piece of mail. As recently as two weeks ago I had sent mail to the same
bellsouth.net recipient with no problem.

My mail is sent through mail.telocity.com, but I do have a static IP which
is not the target of any name server at the moment. I also set my
'Reply-To:' and 'From:' lines explicitly, as well as my user-domain. Is
there a way I should set this up so as to avoid the BellSouth whine?

Thanks for any comments.

Regards -
 John Mills


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