Hi,

My postfix mail program has been working fine for months. However, If I send an email to an aol or msn user, It gets bounced back.

Anyone know of any issues with aol msn blocking certain email?

Basically it says " Refused mail service" as the bounce error.

Do I need a special set-up for these 2 hosts?

thanks.

Yep. AOL and Hotmail (among others) are trying to combat spam by blocking mail originating from dial-up pools and dynamic IP pools on broadband connections. Your best bet is to use an upstream 'smarthost' smtp server like the one provided to you by your ISP.

You can thank all the black hearted spammers for measures like this and more that will be coming down the pipe.

I am not sure what you mean by smarthost upstream? Do you mean I will have to send all of my mail through att now?

Please explain more.

Thanks

If att is your isp and that's the connection you're using then ya-huh, that would be the case. Essentially you'll be using the smtp server your ISP provided when you signed up. You can still use your server for inbound mail without any problems, provided that your ISP allows that type of thing.

Ok, I just did a search on upstream smarthost configuration for postfix and didnt find much. Any help with the main.cf file is appreciated...thanks for your reply.

lspci -vv

Now I guess it does see as d-link
but the module still doesnt work...any help?

00:0e.0 Network controller: Linksys: Unknown device 8201 (rev 11)
Subsystem: D-Link System Inc: Unknown device 3503
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32 (16000ns min, 32000ns max), cache line size 08
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: I/O ports at d800 [size=256]
Region 1: Memory at e5822000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=100mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-