[NTLUG:Discuss] AOL Rejecting Mail and Sendmail

[Eric Schnoebelen]

Ed Coates writes:
- Quoting Greg Edwards <greg at nas-inet.com>:
- > Add to the mailertable
- > 
- > .aol.com	smtp:[mail.comcast.com]
- > 
- > I think you missed the brackets in your first try.  The brackets will 
- > tell sendmail to ignore your MX for SMTP delivery to that (aol.com) 
- > domain.  Don't forget the leading "." on domain the to relay.  Also do 
- > not have aol.com listed as a local domain.
- 
- Thanks for the reply.  Unfortunately, even with the []s and
- remaking the map, and restarting sendmail, it ignores it.  I
- think that this is only for incoming mail, and not outgoing.

	mailertable is for outgoing routing.

	What you need is the following entry:

		aol.com		smpt:[mail.comcast.com]

	What Greg gave you above would handle mail to
relay.aol.com, but not to aol.com itself. (the leading dot,
actually, the null hostname, means match any hostname with
``.aol.com'' as a suffix.)

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