Hi all,
Last week, the ISP we rent rack space from made an error in their DNS
and our mailserver got swamped with other people's mail. We only have
one machine so Imail is running with CF, IIS, and DNS. This is normally
not a problem (I've got configuration just right so only reboot when I
feel like it). In various attempts to block this extra mail (over
10,000 got queued), get rid of it, etc., I'm afraid I may have broke
something. They fixed their DNS problem, so we're back to only our own
mail. Now, we can't mail to, amongst others, AOL. The log has:
Stack connect fail "205.188.146.8"
That example is one of many AOL addresses. There are other domains it
can't get to as well, but there are a few it can. It does finally get
there, but only when it has enough tries to go to thru the other
gateway. Unfortunately, the other gateway is our ISP and they never
clear out old records. SO, email that goes thru them has a 50/50 chance
of having the "FROM" field altered somehow (some of the IPs we have are
the same IP addresses we had while on their servers).
SO, is anybody familiar with this particular "stack connect fail" error
and what could cause it? I've tried resetting everything the way it
was, but I must have missed something? SMTP security is set to relay
mail for anyone.
Thanks in advance,
Tonya
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