OT: High speed without ISP?

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 09:46 -0700, Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 18:58 -0700, Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> >> Just to let everyone know what happened:
> >>
> >> I found out that I have vDSL from Qwest. Normal DSL is not available, 
> >> and neither is a static IP address. I can't use another ISP either. I'm 
> >> locked in to Qwest for my ISP, with no static IP. My only option would 
> >> be Cox, and I'm not going there.
> >>
> >> I decided to use DynDNS's Mailhop Outbound service. There's a limit of 
> >> 150 relays/day, but it only costs $15/yr, and $10/yr for additional 
> >> increments of 150. The only destinations I've had a problem with are 
> >> cox.net and my brother's work. I seemed to remember getting a bounce 
> >> from AOL too, but I can't confirm.
> >>
> >> I found out how to tell qmail to route outgoing email through DynDNS's 
> >> service only for domains that I specify (control/smtproutes file), and 
> >> it's working nicely. Everything else (the majority by far) goes straight 
> >> out from my server to its destination.
> >>
> >> BL, I don't need a static IP address after all. I'm really liking 
> >> DynDNS.org. qmailtoaster.com is pretty nice too, but the documentation 
> >> is sketchy (welcome to Linux ;) ).
> >>
> >> Thanks for all the input.
> > -----
> > Use smarthost features...
> > 
> > Sendmail
> > define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.west.cox.net') 
> > 
> > Postfix
> > relayhost = smtp.west.cox.net
> > 
> > Of course, you would need to change the smtp.west.cox.net to
> > pop.phnx.qwest.net or whatever it is for Qwest but it's something very
> > close to that.
> > 
> > This would get all your mail delivered.
> > 
> > Craig
> > 
> > 
> I haven't been able to get that to work with Qwest.
> 
> When I try to use their smtp server directly from my email client, they 
> reject it because the sender address in the *body* isn't from their domain.
> 
> When I try to authenticate from qmail (like I'm doing with dyndns's 
> mailhop), quest's server doesn't recognize the authentication method:
> No supported AUTH method found, continuing without authentication.
> 63.231.195.31 does not like recipient.
> Remote host said: 553 relaying denied.
> Giving up on 63.231.195.31.
> 
> Any idea how I can get qmail to authenticate with qwest's server(s)?
> I'm running qmail-toaster.com's release of qmail, which includes the 
> qmail-remote-auth patch:
> Robert Sander - qmail-remote-auth
> http://www.ornl.gov/lists/mailing-lists/qmail/2002/03/msg00091.html
> 
> Thanks for the assist.
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for reasons that have been hashed on list many times, I don't use qmail
so I am of no use there.

for usage of smarthost...you might want to check with Qwest DSL support.
Cox has an interesting arrangement...if you are a residential user
(DHCP), you can use smtp.west.cox.net. If you are a business user (fixed
ip addresses), you have to call their technical support and get your ip
address permitted to relay via a different smarthost. Qwest might permit
you to use a smarthost if you register...best worked out through them.

Qwest does offer fixed ip addresses, if I recall, they are $15 a month
for a 255.255.255.248 subnet mask (8 ip addresses, 5 usable). They will
also fix the reverse lookups to point to whatever fqdn you want which
basically solves all issues.

Craig