[epub] Re: AOL

[Henrik Leghissa <soulreaper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 19:17 2003-10-08, Doug Lipman wrote:
> At 2:32 AM +0200 10/8/03, Henrik Leghissa wrote:
>
> > When the issue of ALL mail-traffic from Telia getting blocked was
> > resolved, the computers that ran in Telia's network weren't able to
> > host their own smtp-servers for example. This I noticed when trying
> > to send email to AOL (and some other american ISPs), which I
> > resolved by having my ISPs main smtp-server stand as a "smartrelay"
> > in my mailserver's configuration.
> >
> > Maybe the above could be something for you and others Ross?!
>
> Can you explain this a little more? Are you saying that your outgoing
> email goes from your domain's SMTP server to your ISP's SMTP server
> somehow?

Yes exactly.


An example if you are using sendmail:

open "/etc/mail/mailertable" and add the following line for example aol.com

aol.com smtp:smtp.isp.com


(it's not harder than that! :-))



If you want to use your isp's email-server for ALL emails going from your 
own smtp-server (also sendmail):

open "/etc/mail/sendmail.mc" and then add the following line:

define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.isp.com')

and after you saved your changes, rebuild the configuration by doing this:
"m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf"

Restart sendmail, and presto!



 / H 


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