[Gllug] AOL blocking mail from DSL lines (again)

Rickey Costas rickey at lefteris.co.uk
Tue Jul 8 10:35:19 UTC 2003


You could have an email server that AOL is happy with acting as a smarthost for your roaming email connections.

Rickey.



Richard Jones wrote:

> Does anyone actually have a solution for this?[1]
> 
> Situation is this: my dad connects to the internet through a variety
> of different ISPs. So I configured his sendmail to send mail directly
> (not through a smarthost). This has worked fine with everyone until
> very recently when AOL instituted their stupid change in policy. Now
> he can't go editing /etc/sendmail.cf every time he wants to connect
> through a different ISP. How can I set it up so he can talk to his
> friend on AOL?
> 
> Rich.
> 
> [1] http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/13/2215207&mode=thread&tid=120



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