[ale] postfix / Bellsouth as ISP [Solved]

[Greg Freemyer]

It worked, thanks a lot.

Can you explain what the issue was?  

ie. I have no idea what '[x.y.z]' does different from 'x.y.z'.

Thanks
Greg
-- 
Greg Freemyer

On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 18:23, Stephen Touset wrote:
> Use [mail.atl.bellsouth.net] with the brackets.
> 
> Greg Freemyer wrote:
> 
> >All,
> >
> >I'm having problems sending e-mail from postfix to the world via
> >Bellsouth.  (I'm experimenting with SUSE 9.1)
> >
> >It works fine if I originate the mail with evolution, which then
> >delivers it to mail.atl.bellsouth.net
> >
> >If I have postfix configured to forward all mail to the same smtp
> >server, it fails.
> >
> >I get 
> >    550 .net 022: Your current IP address is not allowed to relay to
> >    norcrossgroup.com Solution: Connect using BellSouth Internet
> >Service. (in
> >    reply to RCPT TO command)
> >
> >I am connected using Bellsouth (via a NAT gateway), so I'm not sure what
> >the problem is.
> >
> >Does anybody have postfix forwarding their outbound e-mail to 
> >Bellsouth?
> >
> >My initial thought was that Bellsouth did not support PIPELINING so I
> >have configured postfix to use HELO (basic protocol) instead of EHLO
> >(advanced protocol)
> > 
> >Changing postfix's config to use HELO instead of EHLO did eliminate the
> >PIPELINING.
> >
> >Now the "MAIL FROM:" and "RCPT TO:" are being sent in separate packets
> >from postfix.
> >
> >Using ethereal, I don't see anything significantly different between
> >postfix and evolution sending out e-mail to my ISPs mail server.
> >
> >As I said, sending via evolution works fine.  I'm not sure I have ever
> >succesfully sent with postfix/bellsouth before.  I'm still guessing
> >their is some kind of incompatibility. 
> >
> >Thanks
> >Greg
> >  
> >
> 
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