[TriLUG] AOL's new email policy

[Corey Mutter]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 07:30:03PM -0500, Jason White wrote:
> * 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
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Just curious, what's wrong with just using smtp-server.nc.rr.com as your
smarthost? (This message brought to you with such a setup). This way, all of
your outbound mail goes through their server, and you needn't worry about 
being on the DUL. (You also needn't worry about how to route mail to anywhere
but Roadrunner). I've not experienced any reliability problems with doing
this, but my volume of email is pretty low, YMMV I suppose.

Corey