I'm doing the same thing, but I'm using sendmail.  I found that some sites
were blocking the address ranges of Road Runner users, but I haven't seen
anyone blocking Road Runners mail servers.  RR allows me to relay off them
because the message is coming from one of their ip's (just like a user
sending mail with Outlook Express)

I had to create a couple of entries in my /etc/mail/mailertable like the
following:
aol.com		smtp:smtp-server.mn.rr.com
netscape.net	smtp:smtp-server.mn.rr.com
mn.rr.com		smtp:smtp-server.mn.rr.com

Basically what this is telling sendmail is that for aol.com addresses
forward those messages to smtp-server.mn.rr.com using smtp.  The Road
Runner server then forwards the mail onto the approriate location.

Hope this helps
Jim

> Hi,
>
> I'm running a small shop in my house for providing email/web hosting for
> a couple domains for friends, nonprofits, etc.  I'm using Road Runner as
> my provider on a business class account.  Mostly mjust want to learn how
> all this stuff works and at the same time make a buck or two.
>
> My mail server is qmail.  What I'm finding is that mail to certain
> addresses are getting bounced back because Road Runner's SMTP server
> relays the mail and the destination is configured to block everything
> from rr.com.  The googling I've done points to configuring qmail to use
> a smarthost by setting up smtproutes, but I'm a bit at a loss as to how
> to do this.  As usual, the qmail documentaion is somewhat cryptic (to me
> anyway).  Does this imply finding out from Road Runner what their
> smarthost SMTP server is and putting that in smtproutes?  Or can I
> somehow tell qmail that my box is the smarthost?
>
> Ideally I'd like my SMTP server to not even talk to Road Runner's, but
> I'm not sure if this is possible.
>
> Any thoughts/suggestions?
>
> Josh
>
>
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