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They don't think to look at their own users or those of hotmail, yahoo and every other webmail spammer's heaven. :(

Yep. I read this on /. and they seem to be taking a particularly brain dead way of trying to combat it. And yes again, 99% of the spam I get is generated from AOL, Hotmail, and Yahoo accounts. The funny thing is even the spam that doesn't seem to be directly from any of these webmail services picked up dramatically after I renewed my Yahoo account in order to read the replacement news group junk for the now defunct LOKI games. I remember have problems accessing the quasi-Loki news site on Yahoo and reconfiguring my user profile to be able to read it. Well within the week I started getting spam (stuff like the Nigerian and South African, etc, claims about being the son of a diplomat or assassinated President and having money tied up in some foriegn acct that ony I can help them with - some ppl must be really trusting - - but I digress). Within a month I was getting loads of it, and even offers to BUY hundreds of thousands of email addresses that were gathered with a spider. It all happened after I set up my Yahoo account. So, it seems that all AOL and others need to do is look in their own backyard to find the culprits - but that might hurt their revenue. So, it's safe to say that this won't be stopping anytime soon (Idiots in the suits no doubt won't let the admins do what they should to "really" stop this crap). LOL! Cheers. Curtis. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+oQ8I7WVLiDrqeksRAn1wAJ9icVjnIvBSZ6w4CaACct4x3gFsuACg7bIn LEgOj/0+J4n5UHSoMM9rXvY= =nmSz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Is there anyway I can configure my mail server (SuSE default postfix) to deliver mail direct for all email address apart from a selected list of domains that will be be delivered via my ISPs SMTP Server. Regards Adam On Sat, 2003-04-19 at 13:23, Robt. Miller wrote:

On Sat, 19 Apr 2003, Ben Rosenberg wrote:

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Yep. It was a big story a couple days ago. AOL is blocking a lot of dynamic ip DSL lines and even some static ip DSL lines that it doesn't think should send email to AOL'ers. It's there way of fighting spam since they say most spam comes from dynamic ip DSL and dialup. They don't think to look at their own users or those of hotmail, yahoo and every other webmail spammer's heaven. :(

Earthlink and Prolog do the same thing. I had to switch to my provider's smtp server.

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Is there anyway I can configure my mail server (SuSE default postfix) to deliver mail direct for all email address apart from a selected list of domains that will be be delivered via my ISPs SMTP Server.

This probably won't be of much help, but I know you can do this with Exchange, so I would imagine Postfix, qmail, sendmail, et al probably have a similar setting. I've only ever set Postfix to use a smart host for all delivery, never for a specific domain or domains. -- John LeMay KC2KTH Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC | http://www.njmc.com | Phone 732-557-4848 Specializing in Microsoft and Unix based solutions

* Theo v. Werkhoven [04-19-03 18:05]:

On Sat, 19 Apr 2003, Adam just had to get this off his chest:

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Is there anyway I can configure my mail server (SuSE default postfix) to deliver mail direct for all email address apart from a selected list of domains that will be be delivered via my ISPs SMTP Server.

/etc/postfix/main.cf: transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport

/etc/postfix/transport: aol.com smtp:mail.isp.tld

hash transport and reload Postfix.

This works perfectly for me, but... I added to /etc/postfix/transport (last line) aol.com smtp:smtp-server.indy.rr.com ran: postmap /etc/postfix/transport postfix reload sendmail -q and the three msg's to aolers in mailq that had been there for 4 days immediately went upon their merry way. tks, -- Patrick Shanahan Please avoid TOFU and trim >quotes< http://wahoo.no-ip.org Registered Linux User #207535 icq#173753138 @ http://counter.li.org Linux, a continuous *learning* experience

Quoting Sean Akers :

"Robt. Miller" wrote on 19/04/2003 13:23:40:

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Earthlink and Prolog do the same thing. I had to switch to my provider's smtp server.

I think Supanet also do this. I had to start using my ISPs SMTP server to get mail there. Kept getting "Service Unavailable" errors when going direct.

Sean Akers.

AOL just started rejected mail from my cable modem address. Last week they accepted it. Jeffrey