Home Linux box can't send to AOL this week

[jkinz at kinz.org (Jeff Kinz)]

Hi anthony , could you please not top post?
Its much easier to track what has been done and the order it was done
in when we follow the "bottom posting" standard.  thanks.

> On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Jeff Kinz wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 12:34:01PM -0400, Anthony J. Gabrielson wrote:
> > > What line do I need in my sendmail.cf file to look at a mailertable file?
> > 
> > Kmailertable hash -o  /etc/mailertable.db
> > 
> > Customize to suit your local config (i.e on Redhat 7.2 the mailtable file
> > is kept in /etc/mail/mailertable.db)
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Anthony
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Mon, 7 Apr 2003 09:59:50 -0400 (EDT)
> > > > Rich Braun <richb at pioneer.ci.net> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Have any of you gotten this, as a result of an apparent policy change
> > > > > at AOL in the past few days?  I have a Linux email server running
> > > > > sendmail 8.12.9, connected to Comcast aka ATT-BI aka MediaOne,
> > > > > formerly Continental Cable:
> > > > This has been discussed in detail last month on GNHLUG.
> > > > The solution is to set your /etc/mail/mailertable:
> > > > aol.com	smtp:mail.attbi.com
> > > > 
> > > > Or another host. Remember that netscape.net addresses have the same
> > > > problem.
> > > > 
On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 01:31:28PM -0400, Anthony J. Gabrielson wrote:
> Hello,
> 	I'm doing this under solaris.  I have created an
> /etc/mail/mailertable.db file that has these contents:
> aol.com         smtp:mail.attbi.com
> netscape.net    smatp:mail.attbi.com
> 
> I have also added this line to my senmail.cf
> Kmailertable hash -o  /etc/mail/mailertable.db
> 
> Have a missed something - I still can't send to aol.com....  I really hate
> aol anyway, why is this a concern....

Hi Anthony.

For sendmail configuration I use the sendmail.mc file which generates
a sendmail.cf file using the m4 macro processor so I can't help you to
much with direct sendmail.cf questions.  The information about 
 Kmailertable hash -o  /etc/mail/mailertable.db
comes directly from the O'Reilly bat book on sendmail.

I notice there are at least four lines in my generated sendmail.cf
that deal with mailertables.  
 grep mailertable sendmail.cf
#####  $Id: mailertable.m4,v 8.18 1999/07/22 17:55:35 gshapiro Exp $  #####
Kmailertable hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable.db
R< $+ > $*              $: < $(mailertable $1 $) > $2   lookup
###  Ruleset 90 -- try domain part of mailertable entry         ###
R$* <$- . $+ > $*       $: $1$2 < $(mailertable .$3 $@ $1$2 $@ $2 $) > $4
R$* < $* > $*           $: < $(mailertable . $@ $1$2 $) > $3    try "."
R< $* > $*              $@ $2                           no mailertable match

Can you use a sendmail.mc file instead?

Another easier fix is to just relay all of your mail through your 
ISP mail service.

Looks like this in sendmail.mc:
define(`SMART_HOST',`mail.attbi.com')dnl

Unless you have reasons for not wanting your mail to go through attbi/comcast.

> 

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