[ale] What is going on with Bellsouth's smtp server?

[Rob Fauls]

I havent checked with bellsouth yet, but i wouldnt doubt thats what they 
are doing, considering that they have already blocked outgoing access to 
smtp.  It looks like they are trying to tighten that noose on the 
spammers, but at the same time, they are screwing their customers. Call 
them up, ask them what the dilio, and let us know. They wont talk to me 
anymore, as i dropped them about 4 months ago.
-Rob

Greg Freemyer wrote:
> My company has a business dsl with a static IP from Bellsouth.
>
> For years we've been able to use mail.bellsouth.net as our smtp server
> in our e-mail clients even though our return addresses are
> xxx at NorcrossGroup.com
>
> As of some point yesterday Bellsouth's outbound smtp server appears to
> be checking the return address and denying access to anybody that does
> not have a xxx at bellsouth.net address.
>
> I hope I'm wrong but that is certainly the way it is behaving?
>
> Can anyone confirm/deny the above or provide a simple work around?
>
> Unfortunately my company uses Goldmine for most of our e-mail clients
> and they don't have a lot of configurability.
>
> I suspect I can find anouther outbound smtp server I can use, but
> bellsouth is getting to be more and more of a pain.
>
> Greg
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> The Norcross Group
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