Finally!

[bjarvis]

After much pain & trauma, I finally got my Linux box to talk nicely with Earthlink yet again.

Without prior notice, Earthlink switched their SMTP service to AUTH SMTP. This isn't a major issue and most mail clients can be converted with a couple of quick clicks. Sendmail, however, turned out to the a cast iron bitch. In the end, I upgraded Sendmail to the latest & greatest, updated the SASL application and spent most of the day debugging issues and exploring alternatives. It shouldn't have been this difficult, and perhaps it wouldn't have been if I was firing on all cylinders. Ah, well.

The spam filters are still off-line but I'll worry about that tomorrow. I'm going to sleep now.

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[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

I've whitelisted stuff from Earthlink so the odds are against it being pitched. You'd think they'd have left something in my Earthlink mailbox since it's regularly packed with other promotional & system status messages from Earthlink.