I think you may have a couple of options here depending on how you're systems are set up. You could set up Imail to listen on an alternate port for SMTP connections (not a great option) or if you use NAT on a router you may be able to set it up to forward all requests from an alternate port (say 125) to port 25 on your Imail server. Some mail gateways may allow you to do this, for example I know (from experience) that ASSP will listen on more than one port and then send all mail to the Imail server.
On the POP side of things I not so sure, I find it unlikely that the POP3 port is being blocked.
My opinion is dump AOL, I wouldn't touch them with a 10 foot barge pole but that's just me :)
Port blocking seems to be more of a problem in the US anyway, the non of the UK based ISP's I have used do this.
Adrian
At 16:26 29/01/2004, you wrote:
Has anyone seen or heard whether AOL is changing their policy on AOL clients
sending/recieving pop3/smtp mail from 3rd party mail servers while connected
to their network? I have several field employees, when dialed up to AOL and
trying to send email using their corporate email account, get the following
message:
"Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for
this include server problems, network problems, or a long period of
inactivity. Account: 'User Name (pop3.domain.com)', Server:
'smtp.domain.com', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number:
0x800CCC0F"
They are not able to telnet to the mail server address or any others for
that matter (I even tried earthlink.net). The telnet connection drops
immediatly. I talked to AOL support and apparently they did not understand
me, but they said that clients using pop3/smtp mail to from other mail
servers were not supported on their network and that this was a recent
change. They could not provide me with any hard documentation.
Thanks,
Henry Isgett
Network Administrator
ACS Technologies
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