[TriLUG] semi-OT: mail relaying broken for other time warner customers?

[Lisa Lorenzin via TriLUG]

to close the loop on this...

an anonymous TWC management type who reads the list (and is a linux 
supporter) saw my note, found an error in their back-end systems that was 
causing the problem, and fixed it!  mail relaying is working again without 
authentication, as it was originally.  i really appreciate the 
intervention and the assistance.

regards,
lisa


On Mon, 23 Mar 2015, Lance A. Brown wrote:

> On 2015-03-23 3:17 pm, Lisa Lorenzin via TriLUG wrote:
>> matt, thanks for confirming that we're not the only ones running into 
>> this... :(
>> 
>> lance, thanks for the suggestion!  we considered just going with that
>> kind of workaround for this (especially since we just switched from
>> their DNS servers to OpenDNS to bypass the DNS resolution problems due
>> to unreachability of their DNS servers). but to be honest, i'm rather
>> incandescently pissed off at them for just breaking this with no
>> warning, enough so that i'm willing to fight with their tech support
>> to see if we can get it fixed.
>
> When TWC blocked outbound SMTP connections, I started relaying through 
> smtp.nc.rr.com and that worked for a while.  Then I noticed delays in message 
> delivery; sometimes as much as 12 hours!  That led me to set up relayhost 
> delivery to my linode.com machine.
>
> Relayhost-ing through the TriLUG server is an excellent idea in my opinion. 
> The only drawback to either solution is having to put a password on your 
> server someplace for sednmail/postfix to authorize its connection to the 
> relayhost.
>
> --[Lance]
>
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