[ale] Sendmail and Bellsouth

[Rob Fauls]

didnt see this post till i looked further through my mial... this is a 
good suggestion, but i havent fooled with it myself, so couldnt say 
whether or not it works with bellsouth's setup.
-Rob
H. A. Story wrote:
> NO,
> Almost, Everyone blocks port 25 now.  And it is not a sendmail viruses.  
> It is spamers that are viruses.  I dare say even exchange would be 
> blocked.  If you have a dynamic IP and you have some made up domain, 
> chances are the receiver will block your incoming mail as spam also.  My 
> favorite lately is to send mail out on my made up domain name and then 
> having some other reply to address.  When users try to send mail to 
> <mydomain>.homelinux.org they get a bounce back.  The port is closed to 
> the outside world. 
>
> You need to configure sendmail correctly.    One part of it is to add
> define(`SMART_HOST',`[mail.bellsouth.net]') 
> to /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
> It depends on how your sendmail was complied and installed.  You will  
> more than likely need to change the domain name in the same file also.
> This is so your mail goes through mail.bellsouth.net
>
> And another suggestion is to use postfix(sp). as someone else on this 
> list will suggest. I am too lazy to switch.
>
> Adrin
>
>
> Rob Fauls wrote:
>
>   
>> Bellsouth is blocking port 25 "as a result of recent sendmail viruses" 
>> which means that they are using this as a way to further lockdown their 
>> internet...suggestion: use a different isp.  it could be something else, 
>> but im pretty sure thats what this is.
>> -Rob
>>
>> Brandon Colbert wrote:
>>  
>>
>>     
>>> Has anybody got sendmail to work off the bellsouth network? The server 
>>> works great off Charter's network. Any ideas?
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