[NTLUG:Discuss] Austin SWBell smtp relay issues (not really a linux topic but... )

[jeremyb@univista.com]

Hey folks,  have any of you had issues with blocked/returned AOL.com
destined email sent from smtp servers on SWBell DSL lines?
  I know this isn't exactly a Linux topic,  but I figured some of you may
have been affected by this.
 I have two Austin clients that can't send any email to AOL email
addresses...   that's a real problem when half the 
 country seems to use AOL.

  ...anyhow,  after doing the usual he-said-she-said song-and-dance with
SWBell, ASI and AOL I discovered that 
SWBell sent a list of 500 or so "suspicious" IPs to AOL.  Suspicious meaning
smtp relaying problems were "known" to exist on these servers.  Well,  my
clients don't relay mail and haven't been sending spam. According to AOL,
the heart of the matter is that SWBell actually has the smtp relaying
problems on their own server.  ...not the necessarily 500 or so customers
they
Pimped out to AOL....   What? ...Huh?  ..when does this start to make sense?
Now I've got clients that can't communicate with their clients... and a
bunch of multinational conglomerates pointing their slimy Draconian fingers
at each other.    I hate this part of the job.
  
    Is Anyone else experiencing this crapola?

Jeremy Brooks
Univista
office: 512-832-6209

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