[Mailman-Users] Redirect AOL subscribers

Jon Carnes jonc at nc.rr.com
Wed Jul 2 16:30:27 CEST 2003


On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 08:29, Ed Leafe wrote:
> 	I'm currently running a few lists with Mailman, and it's been working 
> great. One problem has popped up, though: AOL now blocks *all* email 
> coming from servers with RoadRunner IP addresses. Their rationale is 
> that it is necessary to block the inflow of spam.
> 
> 	Some of my subscribers have AOL accounts, and now cannot receives 
> posts to the list. I do have an alternate SMTP server I can use, but I 
> don't want all the traffic to go through that server. Is there any way 
> to redirect just the mail that is addressed to aol.com accounts to that 
> alternate server, and let the rest go through as usual? I'm running 
> Postfix as my MTA on RedHat Linux 8.
> 
Yes, setup a transport for aol
   /etc/postfix/transport

A lot of small installs are seeing this problem, and it's not just with
AOL.  Folks are forcing ISP's to really police themselves for Spammers
(something RoadRunner doesn't do too well).  

Jon Carnes





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