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

[Paul Cartwright]

On Fri March 17 2006 11:57 am, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> My company has a business dsl with a static IP from Bellsouth.
I have just a bellsouth DSL setup, not static.

>
> 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

I have a bunch of accounts setup to use bellsouth as SMTP server, just 
setup username+login for each account.
>
> 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 found this to be true on a few of my latest trips, when I was on a 
site that WASN'T Bellsouth, I could NOT send mail, but I could receive 
it. 

> Unfortunately my company uses Goldmine for most of our e-mail
> clients and they don't have a lot of configurability.

I use kmail & thunderbird. Thunderbird on my windows box( laptop) that 
travels with me.
>
> I suspect I can find anouther outbound smtp server I can use, but
> bellsouth is getting to be more and more of a pain.

good luck there, 

-- 
Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800