Re: [Exim] Sending to AOL issues (AOL stinks)

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Author: Jeff Green
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Sending to AOL issues (AOL stinks)
At 03:19 PM 4/1/03, Sean W. Kuyper wrote:
>Hello,
>I'm currently running exim as my servers SMTP and have run into one little
>setback... AOL refuses emails from my server because it has a dynamically
>assigned IP. So I was wondering where I would look to set up exim to
>deliver localmail and forward outgoing mail to my ISP's SMTP server.
>Basically I'm a newbie so any help would be great.



It's not a good idea to operate an SMTP mail server with dynamically
assigned IP (other than perhaps ODMR). While I can't cite RFCs that say it
can't or shouldn't be done (perhaps others on the list can and will in
follow-up), a look at the following thread on the RFCI-discuss mailing list
will give you some insight into why not to, and why AOL isn't accepting
your mail.


Jeffrey B. Green                Personal Computer Consultant - Las Vegas,
Nevada
http://jbgreen.com              Networking Las Vegas Since 1986