Relaying with QMail (to fix the AOL thing)

Jonathan Hutchins hutchins at tarcanfel.org
Fri Jun 20 00:12:06 CDT 2003


How to Fix (using qmail) - Earthlink too! (Score:1)  
by RevRagnarok (583910) <Slashdot at R[ ]agnarok.com ['evR' in gap]> on Sunday 
April 13, @08:59PM (#5724232)  
(http://revragnarok.com/ | Last Journal: Wednesday May 21, @06:03PM)  
 
 
This problem has been around for about 4 weeks or so. I just gave up, but the 
woman couldn't mail her mom or sister. :( Earthlink has the same SPAM 
'solution.' 
  
 Anyway, here's how to fix if you have qmail. You need to create a file 
/var/qmail/control/smtproutes if it doesn't exist. In it, you need to replace 
smtp.comcast.net shown below with your own ISP's mail server: 
  
  
.aol.com:smtp.comcast.net 
 .pipeline.com:smtp.comcast.net 
 .earthlink.net:smtp.comcast.net 
 aol.com:smtp.comcast.net 
 pipeline.com:smtp.comcast.net 
 earthlink.net:smtp.comcast.net  
  
 
 The without the dot gets user at aol.com and the with is for user at domain.aol.com 
. Restart qmail your favorite way. You can check with qmail-showctl to see if 
it worked. 
  
 - RR  
 
For those who didn't follow the slashdot article deep enough to find the 
slashdot article that had the QMail solution, her 'tis: 
 
Re:How to Fix (using qmail) - Earthlink too! (Score:2)  
by Electrum (94638) <david at acz.org> on Sunday April 13, @10:18PM (#5724725)  
(http://david.acz.org/)  
 
 
Restart qmail your favorite way. 
 
You don't need to restart qmail-send. qmail-remote is invoked every time a 
remote message is to be sent, and will read smtproutes at that time. 
 
You can check with qmail-showctl to see if it worked. 
 
qmail-showctl simply displays the contents of all the control files in a human 
readable format. To see if it works, you need to send a test message. 	 
 

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