[ale] Hellsouth's wonderful email service

Stephan Uphoff ups at tree.com
Sun Jul 18 15:59:19 EDT 2004


Chuck Huber wrote:
> So I reconfigured sendmail
> to send everything through their mail server only to find out that
> relaying was not allowed from the IP address I was using. The 550
> error also stated that the solution was to connect from the
> HellSouth Internet Service.  Duh... what did they think I was using?

Looks like your mail server uses the MX record instead of the IP record
of the relay entry.
Try to put "[" "]" around your relay entry to avoid the mx record.
( There are a number of threads about this in the ale archive)


	Stephan




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