[ale] Sendmail and Bellsouth DSL?

[Ryan Neily]

I can see where Bellsouth would have problems witht he usual user 
configuring sendmail and causing all kinda of open relays.  I guess being 
a backup MX is out of the question unless I dont masquerade through their 
SMTP server (and then I wont be able to send mail anywhere that blocks 
e-mail coming from bellsouth reesidential IP ranges!) or convert to a 
business DSL connection (way too pricy for this!)

Thanks for the reply...

On 24 Jul 2002, James P. Kinney III wrote:

> 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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