Sendmail to AOL accounts

[harold molly]

Quite labour-intensive is maintaing a (large) hostfile and modify
your nsswitch.conf, for the time being.

On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 01:09:54 +0100, Bill Watson <bill at magicdigits.com>  
wrote:

> Used to be, thought it was, isn't, crap.
>
> My ISP (XO.COM) technical dude said that he's been getting a lot of  
> requests
> for reverse DNS entries the last few days.
>
> As a heads up to y'all, you can test your reverse DNS from  
> www.DNSstuff.com
> and their free website tools. I don't have anything to do with these  
> folks
> other than having just used their tool.
>
> Bill Watson
> bill at magicdigits.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-sysadmin-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-sysadmin-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of
> moti at 101tech.net
> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 3:26 PM
> To: redhat-sysadmin-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Sendmail to AOL accounts
>
>
> Do u have reverse dns setup ?
> Thank You,
> Moti Levy
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Bill Watson" <bill at magicdigits.com>
> Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 15:16:57
> To:<redhat-sysadmin-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Sendmail to AOL accounts
>
> Hiya Group,
>
> I have recently been seeing a huge buildup of outbound mail stuck in my
> /var/spool/mqueue and it appears that almost all of the emails have an  
> AOL
> destination address. I may not be the only one on this planet with this  
> same
> trouble as I have read of others as I google'ed.
>
> I have AS4.0 with sendmail-8.13.1
>
> I have read that sendmail-8.13.5 solves this, and that sendmail-8.13.8 is
> available.
>
> I tried rpm'ing the later versions of sendmail and get dependencies.
> Installing those get more dependencies. Installing those gets file
> incompatability messages. Yuck.
>
> Does anybody have an elegant solution? My first few attempts sucked.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Bill Watson
> bill at magicdigits.com
>
>
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