Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 01:52:04 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: cwaiken@telerama.com Subject: OT: AOL's mail policy (Was: Sendmail / mutt errors) Message-ID: <14773.59796.326575.505048@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <69129889@toto.iv>
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Dan Nelson writes: > In the last episode (Sep 05), Alan Clegg said: > > Unless the network is lying to me again, Christopher W. Aiken said: > > > How can I set up "sendmail" or "mutt" to avoid the following errors > > > that I'm getting with FreeBSD 4.1? I changed the email address to > > > "protect the innocent". :) > > > > > -|<<< 550-AOL no longer accepts connections from dynamically assigned > > > -|<<< 550-IP addresses to our relay servers. Please contact your ISP > > > -|<<< 550 to have your mail redirected through your ISP's SMTP servers. > > Send mail via YOUR provider (not directly) by setting the SMTP relay in > > your sendmail.cf. > The AOL message is very badly worded; there's nothing your ISP can do > about it, although you might need to ask them what IP you should > forward mail to, if you don't already know. For information on telling > sendmail (and other MTAs) about parent mail servers, see > http://www.mail-abuse.org/dul/gateways.htm . Gag. Retch. No - wait! Why were you trying to talk to an AOL relay server? Do they route mail to their users through relay servers, so that people who send mail direct (personally, I do it because I use no fewer than five different ISPs, and don't want to reconfigure my mail software to dial in behind a different firewall) are *all* going to have to reconfigure their mail servers? Bleah, <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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