Root cause seems to be that the connection w/ AOL is timing out.

Is bayes_auto_expire turned on (1) in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf? If so, turning it off would be a good idea.

If you're running spamdyke (a good idea anywise), you can use that to whitelist the domain. Then at least you won't be a relay (I think - Sam could say for sure).

Josh Hopkins wrote:
Last week we started to have problems receiving emails from AOL customers.  
They would get the following back.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:50:32 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details

*** ATTENTION ***

Your e-mail is being returned to you because there was a problem with its
delivery.  The address which was undeliverable is listed in the section
labeled: "----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----".

The reason your mail is being returned to you is listed in the section
labeled: "----- Transcript of Session Follows -----".

The line beginning with "<<<" describes the specific reason your e-mail could
not be delivered.  The next line contains a second error message which is a
general translation for other e-mail servers.

Please direct further questions regarding this message to the e-mail
administrator or Postmaster at that destination.

--AOL Postmaster



  ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<[email protected]>

  ----- Transcript of session follows -----
451 4.4.1 reply: read error from mx01.pd360.com.
<[email protected]>... Deferred: Connection timed out with 
mx01.pd360.com.
Message could not be delivered for 3 hours
Message will be deleted from queue

Final-Recipient: RFC822; [email protected]
Action: failed
Status: 4.4.7
Last-Attempt-Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:50:32 -0500 (EST)


I added the sender to the whitelist. That did not work. Called AOL. Not fun. They gave me their outbound server list. I added them to the tcp.smtp file with the relayclient="" option and now I get emails again from AOL. There needs to be a better way to fix this as now I am an openrelay for AOL email servers. Anyone else having problems receiving emails from AOL?


Joshua R. Hopkins
Director Information Technology
[email protected]
The School Improvement Network Know-How Now
Phone: 801 566-6500
Fax: 801 566-6885
8686 S. 1300 E.
Sandy, Utah  84094
www.schoolimprovement.com


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