[TriLUG] OT: new BS from AOL

[Jon Carnes]

If you are a registered member of trilug, you can use the LUG's
authenticated smtp services for outbound mail... that's what I do.

Jon

On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 11:05, Gregory Woodbury wrote:
> "It was written once upon a time (by Greg Brown):"
> > 
> > This is nice, now I cannot e-mail my uncle, mother and father, or aunt 
> > from my home because AOL, in it's freaking "wisdom" has decided not to 
> > allow mail from my host since my sendmail box is on a dynamic IP 
> > address:
> > 
> > <<< 550-The IP address you are using to connect to AOL is either open to
> > <<< 550-the free relaying of e-mail, is serving as an open proxy, or is 
> > a
> > <<< 550-dynamic (residential) IP address.  AOL cannot accept further 
> > e-mail
> > <<< 550-transactions from your server until either your server is 
> > closed to
> > <<< 550-free relaying/proxy, or your ISP removes your IP address from 
> > their
> > <<< 550-list of dynamic IP addresses.  For additional information,
> > <<< 550-please visit http://postmaster.info.aol.com.
> > <<< 550 Goodbye
> > 
> > Losers.
> > 
> > Sorry, had to vent.
> 
> Yeah
> 
> More of the "e-mail tresspassing" meme going around.  Their claim is
> that you should be using your ISPs mail relays for your outbound mail. I
> had to re-arrange my configuration about 9 months ago to send most mails
> out via the Verizon relay for the same reasons.
> 
> --Greg
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