[TriLUG] AOL's new email policy

[Jason White]

* Ken Mink (kmtrilug at nc.rr.com) [030328 13:09]:
> Hello All,
> I recently discovered that any mail I sent from home to an AOL user was
> bouncing. I use my server in my house as my outgoing MTA. I'm on RR. The
> reason for the bounces was that AOL does not accept mail from a MTA at a
> dynamic IP address. I've been running my setup like this for a couple of
> years and the bounces just started this week, so I think this is a new
> policy. I know almost no one who uses AOL, so it really doesn't matter
> to me. However, my wife is an Ebay addict and she's the one that found
> this first. So, obviously it is a huge issue.

Yep, I told _my_ ebay addict of a wife, and she said the same thing:
big issue.

> The simple solutions are to relay through RR's smtp server or to pony up
> for a static IP. I was wondering if I could set up my MTA to relay
> through RR only mail being set to AOL? I'm using sendmail now, but I'm
> not married to it. Also, I know some people have RR with a static IP,
> what's the charge for the static address? I may go that route for other
> reasons.


Relying all mail destined for aol.com is really easy with qmail, which
is my MTA.  Just add the following line to /var/qmail/control/smtproutes:

aol.com:smtp-server.nc.rr.com

I just added it, and I no longer get the bounces from aol.  

HTH,
Jason