Re: [Fwd: Odd postfix behavior]

[Christian Hammers <ch@lathspell.de>]

Hello

Roberto Sanchez <rcsanchez97@yahoo.es> wrote:
> I have postfix setup to only accept mail from my private subnet and
> clients that authenticate with SMTP AUTH.  However, since I am on a
> Bellsouth dynamic IP, I have added a line to /etc/postfix/transport:
> 
> aol.com                 smtp:[mail.bellsouth.net]
> 
> This is so that my wife can email her dad (who absolutely refuses
> to give up aol.

I don't understand why you have to handle mails to aol.com differently.
Does AOL block your IP but accepts the one from mail.bellsouth.net?
Why not simply route any mail either via a "relay_host = mail.bellsouth.net" or via DNS without any further config?

bye,

-christian-