[svlug] sendmail + covad DSL

[Fouzi Husaini]

Robert Hajime Lanning wrote:

><quote who="Fouzi Husaini">
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>>hi folks,
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>>a friend recently was recently forced to switch over from earthlink DSL
>>to covad. I had setup a linux box as the gateway/firewall/mail server
>>for them but ever since the switch over to covad it appears that mail
>>forwarding through mail.covad.net is no longer working. when i try to
>>send an email i get this error in the mailer daemon:
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>You are new to Covad, so you have not seen their announcements.
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>>... while talking to mail.covad.net.:
>> >>> DATA
>><<< 553 sorry, that domain isn't allowed to be relayed thru this MTA
>>(#5.7.1)
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>They nolonger will relay email with sender domains other than the Covad.net
>domain.  Has nothing to do with authentications.
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>You will need to talk to Covad for other arangements.
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Sometimes the simplest solutions are over looked. It didn't even occur 
to me that they were just not relaying other domains. The only reason I 
had setup sendmail to do relaying was because our previous ISP would not 
allow outgoing emails that were not relayed through their SMTP server. 
With covad I don't even need to bother with relaying and can make the 
linux box send the emails out directly. Problem Solved!!

Thanks for helping to point my brain in the right direction!

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fouzi
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