[ale] Sendmail and Bellsouth DSL?

[James P. Kinney III]

What you are trying to do will most likely get you kicked off BellSouth
DSL. That is the mail forwarding process that generates mountains of
spam. If a friend is having mail delivery problems from their ISP, tell
the friend to have the ISP fix it. 

BellSouth will block all email that is relayed in the manner you
describe. And they should. For a long time, BellSouth was incredibly
permissive on the mail relay from their residential customers. They got
clobbered in the "court of public opinion" and figured out how to read
mail headers before accepting mail from their residential customers.

If you want to forward email, you can with a commercial DSL account. It
costs more but the allowed activity list greater.

On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 10:36, Ryan Neily wrote:
> 
> I am wondering if anyone else has run into this problem...
> 
> I have been sucessfully using Bellsouth's DSL SMTP server with my home 
> linux box by masquerading my local domain.  This works all fine a good 
> since my local linux Boxen cant send e-mail through it's own SMTP server 
> since most everyone blocks mail coming from dialup ip address ranges.
> 
> What I am trying to do, is make a backup MX record for a friend, however 
> when I get mail for his domain, it sends to to the Belsouth SMTP server as 
> masqueraded e-mail. 
> 
> Is there any way around this?  There has got to be a way to to multiple 
> masquerade domains.  i.e. if mail comes from foo.com then masquerade as 
> foo.com else if mail comes from bar.com masqerage as bar.com.   I have 
> played with the function "limited_masqerade", but I cant seem to get it to 
> work.
> 
> I'd be happy with sendmail masqerading only my mail, and doing nothing for 
> his, but masqerading seems to be an "all or nothing" function.
> 
> -- 
> Ryan Neily
> ryan at neily.net
> 
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