[ale] sending mail to bellsouth.net

[Chris Fowler]

I had o do the same.  I believe earthlink bloked all traffic from port 25 on
the internal network.  That is why I made the change.  Sendmail would
timeout sending mail unless it used earthlink as a relay host.

-----Original Message-----
From: James P. Kinney III [mailto:jkinney at localnetsolutions.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 7:44 AM
To: John Mills
Cc: Keith Hopkins; kenn at refriedgeek.com; ale
Subject: Re: [ale] sending mail to bellsouth.net


I had this problem with Earthlink. I resolved it by setting sendmail to
use earthlink's mta (smtp.earthlink.com) as a relay agent. So the mail
was sent from my sendmail with my headers but was forwarded by earthlink
(my ISP). Since the mail was incomming on a line that earthlink knew I
was attached to, the relay was allowed.

On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 22:03, John Mills wrote:
> 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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