[Mimedefang] New spammer trick?

[Cormack, Ken]

::snip:

> Killing off legit users of "consumer broadband" who
> want to use their own servers is, for me, going
> too far.

I deal with this myself at home (where I run my own sendmail box on a cable
connection), as AOL blocks consumer IPs.

My solution?  Using my mailertable trick described earlier, any outbound
mail I send that is addressed to anyone "@aol.com" gets routed (via
mailertable) by my sendmail box, to my cable-provider's "sanctioned" smtp
relay host.  From there, that sanctioned host is able to relay my mail to
aol.

Outbound mail from my box to anyone else is delivered direct to the target
server.

The argument that my "own server" has been "killed" by aol's blacklisting of
consumer IPs is not an issue for me.

KEN CORMACK, RHCE
Sr. UNIX Systems Analyst,
    Open Systems Group
Sr. Software Analyst,
    TSG Midrange Systems Group
AFFILIATED COMPUTER SERVICES, INC.
    557 E. Tallmadge Ave., Akron, OH  44310
    mailto:kcormack at acs.roadway.com
    mailto:ken.cormack at acs-inc.com
    Phone: (330) 643-6372
    Fax: (330) 643-6367
    Pager: (800) 946-4646 Pin 1412819

"If that that is 'is' is that that is not 'not is', is that that is 'not is'
that that is not 'is'?  It is!" - Ken Cormack

"Sendmail administration is not black magic.  There are legitimate technical
reasons why it requires the sacrificing of a live chicken." - Unknown