[ale] "UPDATE" What is going on with Bellsouth's smtp server?

[adrin at bellsouth.net (Howard A Story)]

Greg Freemyer wrote:

>My company has a business dsl with a static IP from Bellsouth.
>
>For years we've been able to use mail.bellsouth.net as our smtp server
>in our e-mail clients even though our return addresses are
>xxx at NorcrossGroup.com
>
>As of some point yesterday Bellsouth's outbound smtp server appears to
>be checking the return address and denying access to anybody that does
>not have a xxx at bellsouth.net address.
>
>I hope I'm wrong but that is certainly the way it is behaving?
>
>Can anyone confirm/deny the above or provide a simple work around?
>
>Unfortunately my company uses Goldmine for most of our e-mail clients
>and they don't have a lot of configurability.
>
>I suspect I can find anouther outbound smtp server I can use, but
>bellsouth is getting to be more and more of a pain.
>
>Greg
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Well,  I I can send email from the CLI and Mozilla again.  But any 
messages form root will get bounced.  Forget about trying another SMTP 
as bellsouth has those ports blocked.   Looks like you are stuck using 
their webmail client when you are away. ICK!!!  And I would assume at 
this point that if you are access a mail server through port 25 not on 
bellsouth's network.  You are not now unless you have a VPN to that 
server.   I think it has been this way for a little while now though. 

Looks like they have turned off some of the relaying.

Adrin