I guess I'm not surprised either. Unfortunately with ISPs blocking outgoing SMTP there are few alternatives. I wonder if any of the pay SMTP servers would work any better.
On 2/24/2013 8:45 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 2/24/2013 12:48 PM, Dennis Putnam wrote: >> It appears that hotmail offers a free relay. Is that a viable alternative? > > I tested two more freemail servers, AOL (smtp.aim.com) and Hotmail > (smtp.live.com). Neither of these is viable as a Mailman outbound relay. > > AOL refuses to accept the mail unless both the envelope sender and the > From: header address are addresses associated with the authenticating > AOL/AIM account. In addition, AOL's server says this in it's reply to > the connect: > > 220-mtaout-ma03.r1000.mx.aol.com ESMTP MUA/Third Party Client Interface > 220-AOL and its affiliated companies do not > 220-authorize the use of its proprietary computers and computer > 220-networks to accept, transmit, or distribute unsolicited bulk > 220-e-mail sent from the internet. > 220-Effective immediately: > 220-AOL may no longer accept connections from IP addresses > 220 which no reverse-DNS (PTR record) assigned. > > If you have an appropriate reverse-DNS, you probably should just be > sending directly and not through a smarthost. > > Hotmail is a bit worse than Gmail. It accepts the mail but rewrites both > the envelope sender and the From: including display name to the address > and display name associated with the authenticating Hotmail/Live > Mail/Outlook.com account. This differs from Gmail in that Gmail rewrites > only the address in From: and not the display name. > > None of this is surprising to me. I think all large ISPs take similar > measures in an attempt to avoid relaying spam with spoofed senders. >
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