Further to this my ISP has told me that AOL will not whitelist my static IP address because my mail server runs on a "home" (not "business") account.
Hence I'm looking at the gateway set-up in RemoteDelivery. Is there a way to configure this so that James first tries sending through MX-derived SMTP servers (as it does today) and if these fail it uses the specified gateway(s)? Thanks, John Hornsby > -----Original Message----- > From: John Hornsby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 14 July 2004 18:32 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Could not connect to SMTP host > > Surprisingly, to me, the problem seems to be: > > http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/554rtrbb.html > > I must be on a list of guilty people who have residential IP > addresses. That seems a bit harsh. Oh well, I'll try to get > my ISP to take me off this list. > > Ps. I found out by doing a: > > Telnet 205.188.159.217 smtp > > ... and all was revealed. > > John Hornsby > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 14 July 2004 18:00 > > To: James Users List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: Could not connect to SMTP host > > > > > Today I upgraded from 2.1.2 to 2.2.0 and the results were as you > > predicted. > > > > Great. :-) > > > > > Strange that I still seem to have problems with the AOL address I > > started > > > out with - but I can see that it tries a large number (16) of > > > different mail servers before giving up ("No mail server(s) > > available > > > at this > > time") > > > > That can happen, but if it is chronic you might want to > check to see > > why the servers were not available. If you are in a banned > IP block, > > for example, although when I checked www.openrbl.org, your > "everton" > > server seems to be OK: > > http://openrbl.org/ip/212/159/70/187.htm. > > > > --- Noel > > >
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