[TriLUG] AOL's new email policy

[Ken Mink]

Hello All,
I recently discovered that any mail I sent from home to an AOL user was
bouncing. I use my server in my house as my outgoing MTA. I'm on RR. The
reason for the bounces was that AOL does not accept mail from a MTA at a
dynamic IP address. I've been running my setup like this for a couple of
years and the bounces just started this week, so I think this is a new
policy. I know almost no one who uses AOL, so it really doesn't matter
to me. However, my wife is an Ebay addict and she's the one that found
this first. So, obviously it is a huge issue.
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.

Thanks in advance,
Ken



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