[TriLUG] AOL's new email policy

Jon Carnes jonc at nc.rr.com
Sat Mar 29 02:12:00 EST 2003


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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