From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 5 23:52:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom1-057.telepath.com [216.14.1.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1CAF037B42C for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 23:52:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 80359 invoked by uid 100); 6 Sep 2000 06:52:04 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14773.59796.326575.505048@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 01:52:04 -0500 (CDT) To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: cwaiken@telerama.com Subject: OT: AOL's mail policy (Was: Sendmail / mutt errors) In-Reply-To: <69129889@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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,