Here's something similar that I noticed a few weeks ago having to do with AOL as well
If you have a forwarding address or alias setup in Imail that forwards to an AOL account, any spam that is sent through and caught by AOL is reporting as originating from the Imail server, according to the AOL Feedback Loop utility. Needless to say, I am NOT happy with that quirk, as it leads to AOL blocking IP's and IP ranges much quicker. Regards, Jamie Price Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.HostMySite.com Get your FREE .com, .net, .org, .biz and .info domain name at HostMySite.com! Phone: International 302.731.4948 | Toll Free: 877-215-4678 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lyndon Eaton Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 10:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] AOL - Reverse DNS Rejections Something else I noticed about AOL, don't know how accurate it is - just my opinion. We have a client who hosts their domain with us, and he wants us to forward his mail to an AOL address. He received a few spams that came from invalid/unregistered domains, and when we tried to forward these to his AOL address, AOL gave a temporary 4xx errors and closed the SMTP connection - leaving the spam sat on our server. It's a shame Declude/Imail between them can't have a CLOSESMTP connection action on preliminary tests instead of first receiving the entire email and then performing an action on it. That way with these kind of preliminary test, our server wouldn't accept the email either - and therefore not keep attempting delivery every x minutes! Anyhow... for this reason I'd make sure that your incoming MX details are correct as well (and do not error on dnsstuff.com) - why have them error when they could be correct? May not make any difference in your situation, especially if you IP is blacklisted, but thought I'd share the above with you all. Regards, Lyndon. ************************************************ Email checked by UKsubnet anti-virus service To prevent email abuse & block spam contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44(0)8712360301 Web: www.uksubnet.net Fax: +44(0)8712360300 Powered by UKsubnet Internet Service Provider Business to Business Internet (ISP) ************************************************ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
