Email hosed - bet I'm not the only one!

[Adrian Mink]

Thanks, I delete those Cox emails without reading them. Sure enough, my
postfix queue was backed up as well. I set postfix to use smtp.west.cox.net
as the relay host and all is well now. Can't really blame them too much
given the volume of spam being sent from their network.

Adrian

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lynn David Newton" <lynn.newton@cox.net>
To: "PLUG" <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 11:58 AM
Subject: Email hosed - bet I'm not the only one!


> This may seem like a dumb question, but where do I set my SMTP server.
> (Using RH 8.0)
>
> I would be very much surprised if I am the only person on this list to be
> affected by this problem:
>
> This morning I just happened to notice that my mail queue was backing up.
> After a little looking around, I read an email message from Cox sent a
> couple of days ago saying that starting today they were going to "improve"
> service with a filter that would block all email sent to 3rd party
outgoing
> SMTP mail servers. Huh??? My mail has always gone out, and as far as I
know
> I have been using smtp.west.cox.net, and have no reason not to do so. (Not
> yet, anyhow.) But I suppose I could be wrong. I didn't have to do anything
> special that I remember to set it up two years ago when I started using
Cox.
> It just all worked.
>
> I can send mail from my iMac because I have Entourage set up to use the
> proper SMTP address. (I've not bothered yet to configure it to send using
> Xemacs VM on the Mac.) I don't know how the system knows at a lower level
to
> send it to the right place. As far as I understand, the Mac uses sendmail
to
> deliver mail. Whatever the case, when I send mail off the iMac, as I am
> about to do with this message, it goes out just fine. Meanwhile, I'm
> receiving incoming email just fine.
>
> And of course, if I call Cox and complain bitterly, they'll tell me they
> don't support Linux.
>
> -- 
> Lynn Newton
> Phoenix, AZ
>
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