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

[Jason Clifford]

On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Tethys wrote:

> My solution was to configure my parents to use one of my machines as a
> smart host. Thus no matter which ISP they're using, they relay via me,
> and I'm not on the AOL DUL list. It does mean that I'm theoretically
> relaying for more people than necessary. In an ideal world, they'd have
> static IPs, and I could restrict it like that. As it is, anyone on either
> of their two ISPs can now relay via me. Since it's only a temporary thing
> (they're in France looking while my Grandad's in hospital there), I don't
> mind, but I wouldn't want to leave it that way for long.

You are probably in breach of your ISPs T&C.

Why don't you set up SMTP AUTH on your box and configure their sendmail 
instance to authenticate? It's very easy to do and you wont then be 
running an open relay.

Jason Clifford
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