[TriLUG] AOL's new email policy

Joseph Tate jtate at dragonstrider.com
Sat Mar 29 23:01:50 EST 2003


NOT < !!!!!

Use >

You should have a Makefile in /etc/mail.  Just type "make" and it will 
"do the right thing"



Turnpike Man wrote:
> 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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