[ale] postfix / Bellsouth as ISP

[Stephen Touset]

Use [mail.atl.bellsouth.net] with the brackets.

Greg Freemyer wrote:

>All,
>
>I'm having problems sending e-mail from postfix to the world via
>Bellsouth.  (I'm experimenting with SUSE 9.1)
>
>It works fine if I originate the mail with evolution, which then
>delivers it to mail.atl.bellsouth.net
>
>If I have postfix configured to forward all mail to the same smtp
>server, it fails.
>
>I get 
>    550 .net 022: Your current IP address is not allowed to relay to
>    norcrossgroup.com Solution: Connect using BellSouth Internet
>Service. (in
>    reply to RCPT TO command)
>
>I am connected using Bellsouth (via a NAT gateway), so I'm not sure what
>the problem is.
>
>Does anybody have postfix forwarding their outbound e-mail to 
>Bellsouth?
>
>My initial thought was that Bellsouth did not support PIPELINING so I
>have configured postfix to use HELO (basic protocol) instead of EHLO
>(advanced protocol)
> 
>Changing postfix's config to use HELO instead of EHLO did eliminate the
>PIPELINING.
>
>Now the "MAIL FROM:" and "RCPT TO:" are being sent in separate packets
>from postfix.
>
>Using ethereal, I don't see anything significantly different between
>postfix and evolution sending out e-mail to my ISPs mail server.
>
>As I said, sending via evolution works fine.  I'm not sure I have ever
>succesfully sent with postfix/bellsouth before.  I'm still guessing
>their is some kind of incompatibility. 
>
>Thanks
>Greg
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