[ale] Sendmail and Bellsouth
Rob Fauls
rob at fauls.com
Sun Feb 19 16:46:35 EST 2006
didnt see this post till i looked further through my mial... this is a
good suggestion, but i havent fooled with it myself, so couldnt say
whether or not it works with bellsouth's setup.
-Rob
H. A. Story wrote:
> NO,
> Almost, Everyone blocks port 25 now. And it is not a sendmail viruses.
> It is spamers that are viruses. I dare say even exchange would be
> blocked. If you have a dynamic IP and you have some made up domain,
> chances are the receiver will block your incoming mail as spam also. My
> favorite lately is to send mail out on my made up domain name and then
> having some other reply to address. When users try to send mail to
> <mydomain>.homelinux.org they get a bounce back. The port is closed to
> the outside world.
>
> You need to configure sendmail correctly. One part of it is to add
> define(`SMART_HOST',`[mail.bellsouth.net]')
> to /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
> It depends on how your sendmail was complied and installed. You will
> more than likely need to change the domain name in the same file also.
> This is so your mail goes through mail.bellsouth.net
>
> And another suggestion is to use postfix(sp). as someone else on this
> list will suggest. I am too lazy to switch.
>
> Adrin
>
>
> Rob Fauls wrote:
>
>
>> Bellsouth is blocking port 25 "as a result of recent sendmail viruses"
>> which means that they are using this as a way to further lockdown their
>> internet...suggestion: use a different isp. it could be something else,
>> but im pretty sure thats what this is.
>> -Rob
>>
>> Brandon Colbert wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Has anybody got sendmail to work off the bellsouth network? The server
>>> works great off Charter's network. Any ideas?
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