There were some reports of problems with xtra's smtp server again on the
nog list. It was reported as comming right thou.
Cheers Don
Andrew Packer wrote:
On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 14:17 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
A friend uses xtra as his ISP. His mother has an aol.com account in the
UK. About 50% of the time he is getting his emails to her bounced by
xtra's smtp server claiming not to have delivered them after 4 days. The
rest of the time they appear to go through.
His mother is 80 odd and suggesting that she might get a gmail account
or similar seems too complex for him to contemplate suggesting to her.
Anyone had similar problems with aol? Workarounds? Is it an xtra thing?
If so I'd suggest he tries getting access to another smtp provider.
My sister is on comcast.net in the USA, and they keep bouncing my
e-mails from the Xtra SMTP server. The delivery-failure message I then
receive from Xtra (same day, usually) contains the line
"Your message was not delivered because the return address was refused."
(The Clear addy I use for this list is for reception and Web mail only;
as a Telecom ADSL customer I can't use Clear's SMTP server, or at least
I couldn't in the past.)
I've also had some difficulty getting e-mails accepted by a couple of
different ISPs in Canada.
I suspect the problem lies with our friends at Telecom.
Can your friend be bothered e-mailing his mum via Web mail? If he's got
a Vodafone phone account he can get Vodafone Web mail for free.
=====Andrew
