[sclug] Broadband

[Smiles, Mark Mark]

Use smtp.ntlworld.com.
This does assume the DNS server is running in NTL which has been a bit
flaky of late.

Mark Smiles

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Edmunds [mailto:keith at midnighthax.com] 
Sent: 20 January 2004 12:36
To: sclug at sclug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [sclug] Broadband

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:55:58 +0000
Tony Sumner <whittycat at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> There is one problem (not serious and possibly OT),
> viz AOL reject mail from me because I send mail directly. They want me
> to route mail via a trusted relay, eg via ntl, but how do I do that? I
> think it's a simple tweak to sendmail but I don't know what.

AOL refuse mail from what they consider to be dial-up access lines. I
had this problem with a customer recently, so I set up Postfix to relay
any AOL-destined mail via the ISP's SMTP server. AOL can be a complete
pain to work with...

Keith
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