[ale] Bellsouth SMTP Problems?

[James CE Johnson]

>
> Anyone figured out a way to get around this?  Seems Bellsouth has turned
> off relaying for all IP's, and adding their SMTP server to the SMARTHOST
> directive in sendmail.mc doesnt work either.

I found a workaround with postfix, dunno if it'll work for you with
sendmail. The fact that the workaround works is just stupid...

I setup redir thusly:
        redir --laddr=127.0.0.1 --lport=10027 \
              --cport=25 --caddr=mail.bellsouth.net \
              --timeout 15 \
              --syslog --name='mail.bellsouth.net ' \
              &
Then I tell postfix to use 'localhost:10027' as the relayhost.

For some reason, mail.bellsouth.net will happily relay for me when I do
this. My only guess is that, maybe, postfix's origin socket is on port 25
(or maybe some port < 1024) and the BS mailserver is triggering its
"no-relay" policy based on that.

>
> I have read elsewhere that you can now get a static IP from them for a
> whopping $14.95 additional for residential users.
>
> I wonder if these "static" IP's are in the "dial-up-IP" lists that
> Mailabuse.org and others use.  Might be justification for me to order a
> static IP today!
>
> --
> Ryan Neily
> ryan at neily.net
>
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