[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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