Fri Jul 23 09:03:46 PDT 2004<\/p>\n
Ran into some issues with aol.com and others blocking email from dynamic IP addresses on my Verizon business DSL account. This is a very bad thing, but fortunately, there’s a reasonable workaround. The solution is to relay the mail through a static-ip machine, and verizon provides one: outgoing.verizon.net. So for a linux sendmail configuration, add the line:<\/p>\n
define(SMART_HOST,outgoing.verizon.net)<\/p>\n
to your \/etc\/mail\/sendmail.mc (assuming your layout is something like a redhat or fedora box) and then, this is the critical part, you need to authenticate to outgoing.verizon.net as described by "Benway" in this thread:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.webservertalk.com\/archive58-2004-6-260816.html<\/a> —————————————————————————— My memory is a bit hazy on this but, try adding the following line to \/etc\/mail\/access:<\/p>\n AuthInfo:smtp.server.com "U:username" "I:username" "P:password" "M:PLAIN"<\/p>\n Changing the server name, username and password to that of your account. Then run make all in \/etc\/mail. This will tell sendmail to always send this info by default.<\/p>\n You can test the above manually by uuencoding the details with:<\/p>\n