At 11:43 AM 8/3/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello All,
>
>I've got a Windows 2000 server running IMail 6.06. I have a user who is
>having troubles sending emails to folks using AOL. I checked the logs and
>found the following:
>
>SMTP (2168) ldeliver sofwerks.com thilton-Sent (1) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 658
>SMTP (2168) Trying aol.com (0)
>SMTP (2168) Connect aol.com [205.188.156.186:25] (1)
>SMTP (2168) 220-rly-yd05.mx.aol.com ESMTP mail_relay_in-yd5.1; Fri, 03 Aug
>It looks like the email is being sent but one of AOL's relay servers
>doesn't like it. By the way, I'm not getting and "undeliverable" message
>back. Any thoughts as to what happening here?
>
>Thanks for your help!
>
>Troy Hilton
>SofWerks LLC.
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Troy,
I just went through this. Make sure your dns reverse lookup for your
mail server is correct as AOL seems to trash messages that do not match
up. Also, If you check your logs you are also likely to see AOL's relay
tester trying to check if your connection is a relay. The quickest way to
do this is by looking for a AOL.NET connection to your server in your
logs. You'll see the relay tester trying to perform a relay back to
AOL.NET using the usual spam methods. If it receives the message back, I
presume your connections mail is automatically dropped.
-Pete
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