>I too just installed IMail and ran into the same problem. And I also just
>made the entries for MX, A and PTR in the DNS about 24 hrs ago. These
>changes seem to have filtered through already, but is it possible that AOL
>is just plain slow, and that is causing the emails to be kicked back to me?
It depends on your TTL for the domain's DNS records. If the records
didn't exist but were asked for, then there is a "negative caching"
where a DNS will cache for the TTL period the failed requests, ie
cache the negative answers, just it caches the positive answers.
When the emails are bounced to you, show us the log lines and error
number/reason that AOL is giving.
AOL does not / cannot reject when reverse lookup fails because it
would reject 50% of Internet's mail servers. AOL does reject if the
"Mail From: sender@senderdomain" domain is not in DNS as A and/or MX records.
Len
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