AT&T outsourced their customer email services to Yahoo after Ameritech
had outsourced their email to prodigy(many years ago and why you see the
mx records pointing to prodigy.net). Yahoo was purchased by what is now
Verizon Media. There is an active project ongoing to move email off to
AT&T. But it's been a multi-year project. I know, I work as an IT
consultant and here in the Chicago area, there are many of my customers
still using ameritech.net email accounts. Bellsouth.net is in the same
shape. Moved to Yahoo and now being moved to AT&T owned services.
When customers are moved off of Yahoo to AT&T, suddenly their Outlook
doesn't work. AT&T is using OAuth and if you have an old version of
Outlook(2016 is considered old and doesn't support OAuth), you have to
get a secure mail key to use instead of your normal password to access
your email via Outlook.
Lyle
On 12/4/20 4:54 PM, Scott Mutter via mailop wrote:
Who is hosting mail for bellsouth.net <http://bellsouth.net> ?
bellsouth.net <http://bellsouth.net>. 10571 IN MX
10 ff-ip4-mx-vip2.prodigy.net <http://ff-ip4-mx-vip2.prodigy.net>.
bellsouth.net <http://bellsouth.net>. 10571 IN MX
10 al-ip4-mx-vip2.prodigy.net <http://al-ip4-mx-vip2.prodigy.net>.
bellsouth.net <http://bellsouth.net>. 10571 IN MX
10 al-ip4-mx-vip1.prodigy.net <http://al-ip4-mx-vip1.prodigy.net>.
bellsouth.net <http://bellsouth.net>. 10571 IN MX
10 ff-ip4-mx-vip1.prodigy.net <http://ff-ip4-mx-vip1.prodigy.net>.
Is bellsouth's mail handled by Verizon? That'd be weird.
Have to assume that bellsouth.net <http://bellsouth.net>'s email is
being handled by AT&T, since bellsouth's MX records and AT&T's MX
records are the same
att.net <http://att.net>. 14400 IN MX 5
ff-ip4-mx-vip2.prodigy.net <http://ff-ip4-mx-vip2.prodigy.net>.
att.net <http://att.net>. 14400 IN MX 5
al-ip4-mx-vip1.prodigy.net <http://al-ip4-mx-vip1.prodigy.net>.
att.net <http://att.net>. 14400 IN MX 5
ff-ip4-mx-vip1.prodigy.net <http://ff-ip4-mx-vip1.prodigy.net>.
att.net <http://att.net>. 14400 IN MX 5
al-ip4-mx-vip2.prodigy.net <http://al-ip4-mx-vip2.prodigy.net>.
On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 3:53 PM Marcel Becker
<marcel.bec...@verizonmedia.com
<mailto:marcel.bec...@verizonmedia.com>> wrote:
On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 12:13 PM Scott Mutter via mailop
<mailop@mailop.org <mailto:mailop@mailop.org>> wrote:
Anybody from AT&T able to contact me off list concerning an
issue with messages sent from our server (192.158.238.23) to
AT&T related email addresses and being delivered into their
spam folder?
That highly depends on which domain you are sending to. Most
consumer domains are not hosted by ATT but by us.
Also remember that there are other reasons why emails might be
delivered to an individual's spam folder, which have nothing to do
with your reputation.
Cheers,
Marcel
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