>I've seen this happen before on the thread, but I always deleted the
>message.
>
>Much of my mail to aol is returned - any ideas why???
Unfortunately, IMail doesn't put the reason in the bounce message (for
example, "550 Mail not allowed from your site since you are an open relay"
or whatever). But, you can check the SMTP log file to find out the reason.
>MESSAGE BELOW
>The original message was received at Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:28:21 -0500
>from host-216-153-151-13.choiceone.net [216.153.151.13]
>
> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
This bounce message came directly from AOL, so they accepted the E-mail,
and then bounced it -- so in this case, looking at the IMail logs may not help.
This is the first time I've ever heard of AOL bouncing an E-mail --
normally they just delete it.
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> (reason: 550 REQUESTED ACTION NOT TAKEN: DNS FAILURE)
Unfortunately, AOL isn't giving you any useful information here. It could
be a problem on their end (they can't reach their own DNS server), or a
problem on your end (no reverse DNS, for example). But from an initial
glance, your server seems to be set up well.
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>... while talking to mailin-01.mx.aol.com.:
> >>> MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
><<< 550 REQUESTED ACTION NOT TAKEN: DNS FAILURE
>554 5.0.0 Service unavailable
Where is this bounce coming from? It's not coming from IMail, and it looks
like it isn't from AOL, either (unless this is an internal bounce within
AOL, but that would be quite unusual).
-Scott
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