[ale] What is going on with Bellsouth's smtp server?

[H. A. Story]

Greg Freemyer wrote:

>My company has a business dsl with a static IP from Bellsouth.
>
>For years we've been able to use mail.bellsouth.net as our smtp server
>in our e-mail clients even though our return addresses are
>xxx at NorcrossGroup.com
>
>As of some point yesterday Bellsouth's outbound smtp server appears to
>be checking the return address and denying access to anybody that does
>not have a xxx at bellsouth.net address.
>
>I hope I'm wrong but that is certainly the way it is behaving?
>
>Can anyone confirm/deny the above or provide a simple work around?
>
>Unfortunately my company uses Goldmine for most of our e-mail clients
>and they don't have a lot of configurability.
>
>I suspect I can find anouther outbound smtp server I can use, but
>bellsouth is getting to be more and more of a pain.
>
>Greg
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>The Norcross Group
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This is going to be a tough one, I think.   This is really going to kill 
the folks that work form home too.  I know my brother has a web hosting 
account and he uses outlook to send mail as though it came form that 
account.  Since the port is blocked going to the web hosting mail site.  
In the past he had to send mail from mail.bellsouth.net, but still put 
his work domain on the end of the from account.   I bet this is broken 
now,  I will have to ask him about it.

Thanks though I didn't even know it was broken on my end.  I was sending 
email and not getting a bounce back at all.