[ale] bellsouth and smtp auth on mail.bellsouth.net

Allan Neal allanneal at bellsouth.net
Tue Jul 13 10:12:01 EDT 2004


Not yet.

telnet mail.bellsouth.net 25
Trying 205.152.59.17...
Connected to mail.bellsouth.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mail.bellsouth.net ESMTP server (InterMail vM.5.01.06.08
201-253-122-130-108-20031117) ready Tue, 13 Jul 2004 10:07:50 -0400
ehlo
250-imf18aec.mail.bellsouth.net
250-HELP
250-PIPELINING
250-DSN
250-8BITMIME
250 SIZE 26214400
quit
221 imf18aec.mail.bellsouth.net ESMTP server closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.


Not very impressed with the promptness of this.  I tried turning it on
to no avail yesterday.  Guess I'll just have to keep checking so see if
they are actually going to do this.

Allan

On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 11:52:23PM -0400, Mike Murphy wrote:
> Yes, I did to, and did the same figuring for sendmail, and am annoyed 
> that they don't yet have AUTH turned on, so I can't tell if it works. I 
> expect well find out sometime tuesday.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> Allan Neal wrote:
> 
> >Anyone else get the message that Bellsouth will be doing smtp auth on
> >mai.bellsouth.net starting on the 13th (tomorrow)?
> >
> >I have done a telnet to mail.bellsouth.net 25 and issued a ehlo command.
> >It does not return AUTH in any options as of yet.
> >
> >I have exim and think I have found the correct entries to put in the
> >config to allow my exim server to do smarthost relay through bellsouth,
> >but am not sure.  Any others that have seen this and know how to get it
> >working?  I would like to discuss to make sure I'm still able to send
> >mail after tomorrow.
> >
> >Allan
> >
> >
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