[ale] Fun with BellSouth, AOL and SMTP

[Jim Kinney]

You need to adjust the "smart_host" setting in sendmail to use the smtp
provided by your ISP. It is a anti-spam feature that helps track spammers.

> I'm looking for a sanity check here from anyone else with BellSouth DSL
> service.
>
> Tonight I started seeing this kind of thing in my mail logs:
> host mx00.mail.bellsouth.net[205.152.59.32] said: 550 .net 022: Your
> current IP address is not allowed to relay to hotmail.com Solution:
> Connect using BellSouth Internet Service.
>
> I sent a note to dsl_help at bellsouth.net and they confirmed that they're
> no longer relaying email through mail.bellsouth.net.
>
> Unfortunately, AOL (and probably others) refuses to allow incoming email
> from dynamically assigned IPs:
>
> telnet some.aol.mail.host 25
> 554- (RTR:DU)  The IP address you are using to connect to AOL is a dynamic
> 554- (residential) IP address.  AOL will not accept future e-mail
> transactions
> 554- from this IP address until your ISP removes this IP address from
> its list
> 554- of dynamic (residential) IP addresses.  For additional information,
> 554  please visit http://postmaster.info.aol.com.
>
> So what's a fella to do?
>
> Has anyone else tripped over this yet?
>
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