Scott,
When I first got your email, I tried a telnet session to the AOL IP in the
log and got in 3 consecutive times. I just tried again (couple of hours
later, been busy!) and got a 'host connection lost' on the first attempt and
success on the next 2. My read is that the AOL servers are _very_ busy, so
may close the connection, shortly after accepting. This is a valid and
possible response, for an email server. Unfortunately, it does mean that by
accepting the connection (rather than refusing it) that IMail won't try
other MX records (it was allowed to connect), so the outgoing message gets
requeued and tried later. AOL may not have 'problems', but....
The log portion you show, indicates this message has only been tried once.
Give it some time.
Daniel Donnelly
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Scot Desort" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 4:11 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] AOL Mail server problems?
> Anyone else notice tons of outbound AOL mail sitting in their IMAIL
queues?
> Ever since yesterday, most of our outbound AOL mail can't be delivered.
> Here's some log info:
>
> 01:25 15:41 SMTP-(00000158) Trying aol.com (0)
> 01:25 15:41 SMTP-(00000158) Connect aol.com [205.188.156.97:25] (1)
> 01:25 15:41 SMTP-(00000158) rl-recv: (00002746) connection reset
> 01:25 15:41 SMTP-(00000158)
> 01:25 15:41 SMTP-(00000158) SMTP_DELIV_FAILED
> 01:25 15:41 SMTP-(00000158) >QUIT
> 01:25 15:41 SMTP-(00000158) rl-recv: (00002746) connection reset
> 01:25 15:41 SMTP-(00000158)
> 01:25 15:41 SMTP-(00000158) requeuing e:\IMail\spool\Q1f27cc1.GSP R0 T1
>
> This is happening on MULTIPLE Imail boxes. Some AOL mail is going through,
> but most mail that connects to one of the AOL servers on their 205.188.x.x
> network seem to be the ones that are failing consistently.
>
> I've reached out to some folks I know at AOL, and they know of no
problems.
>
> Just wondering if anyone here has peeked inside the queues and noticed AOL
> mail sitting there...
>
> --
> Scot
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