[ale] Bellsouth Turning SMTP authentication on on their mail server

[Mike Murphy]

I got this from Bellsouth today. It seems they will soon be requiring 
SMTP clients to authenticate before sending mail. Now, if I can just 
remember how to configure sendmail to do that...

Mike


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	BellSouth e-mail service will now be protected by password
validation.
Date: 	Wed, 07 Jul 2004 12:22:41 -0000
From: 	fyi at bellsouth.net
To: 	BellSouth Internet Service Customers


*Dear Valued Customer,*

* *

We are pleased to inform you that BellSouth will be upgrading its e-mail
service this month to reduce junk e-mail or ?spam? on the Internet.
This message applies to you if you use an e-mail client program to read
and send your e-mails.  Some examples of e-mail client programs are
Outlook and Outlook Express.  /If you only use
http://webmail.bellsouth.net, http:// home.bellsouth.net or another
ISP?s Webmail program to access your e-mail, you may disregard this
notification, because it only applies to e-mail client software./



Most BellSouth Internet Service Customers already have their e-mail
client program set up for this enhancement to work properly, but we ask
that you check your e-mail client program settings to ensure that you
are able to enjoy these additional benefits as soon as possible.



This spam fighting upgrade to the BellSouth e-mail service requires you
to make a small change to your e-mail client by *July 13, 2004*.  This
change must be made to *each* account that uses your e-mail client
program.  These accounts include any account you have that ends in
/@bellsouth.net/ as well as accounts from other ISPs, such as yahoo.com,
msn.com, etc.  The change is*:*



     * Add additional validation to your existing e-mail account.



Your e-mail service will also now require additional validation to
promptly send your messages from the BellSouth network.  We ask you to
check the box in your e-mail properties that specifies ?My server
requires authentication? and enter your e-mail account password in the
appropriate field.



For detailed instructions on how to do this, go to:
_http://help.bellsouth.net/blscontent/commoncontent/faq/smtp_desc.asp
_click on your e-mail client program and follow the steps to verify that
your email client software is set-up properly.



This change applies to all customers who send their e-mail with an
e-mail client through the BellSouth e-mail servers at mail.bellsouth.net.



If you do not ensure this change by *July 13, 2004*, after that date,
you will be asked to enter the account password each time you send an
e-mail.  These changes will be required in order to send e-mail with our
enhanced protection.



If you have any questions on this upgrade, please visit us at

_http://help.bellsouth.net/blscontent/commoncontent/faq/smtp_desc.asp
_or contact us at 1-888-321-2375.   Thank you for choosing BellSouth as
your Internet Service Provider!


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Mike Murphy
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Landline: 404-653-1070
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Email: mike at tyderia.net
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