[TriLUG] AOL's new email policy
Turnpike Man
turnpike420 at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 29 22:56:58 EST 2003
ok ok... so the aol thing doesn't go in sendmail.cf... I got behind...
after adding that to the file (which it appears will be my first entry to that
file, I do this??
makemap hash /etc/mail/mailertable < /etc/mail/mailertable
and that should update the mailtable database?
weee... learning is happening!
David M.
--- Jon Carnes <jonc at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 19:30, Jason White wrote:
> >
> > > 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
>
> In Sendmail, edit /etc/mail/mailertable:
> aol.com smtp:smtp-server.nc.rr.com
>
> http://www.sendmail.org/m4/mailertables.html
>
> Good Luck - Jon Carnes
>
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