Hi.
This has been a recent problem with major ISPs (AOL, Mindspring,
Earthlink, etc.) To make a long story short, these ISPs block SMTP to all
hosts except for their own mail servers. This is to eliminate spammers who
relay through an unsuspecting third party's SMTP server. This isn't the
fault of your setup, AOL is doing it. I'm not sure if AOL provides SMTP
servers or not because they have their own mail system.
Ian
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Ben Schumacher wrote:
> Howdy-
>
> I have just recently setup one a new domain for one of our customers, and
> there seems to be a problem with roaming users. Our customer uses an AOL
> dialup account and says he is able to check messages fine, but can't
> send. I looked at the relay table (we're using MySQL) and it appears that
> his IP is getting written there properly, however, he is still unable to
> send messages out.
>
> Has anybody else had a similar problem. I am at a loss to explain what is
> going on. I know that roaming users is working properly for our other
> accounts (over 500 POPs), but his seems to be a problem.
>
> I have gone over his settings, and everything sounds correct. I haven't
> been able to verify this in person, but I went through the setup
> step-by-step in Outlook Express with him over the phone.
>
> Does anybody on how I might figure out what's going on here? I thought I
> might try logging (temporarily) failed smtp connections, but I'm not quite
> sure how to do this.
>
> BTW- Here is the command I'm using to startup qmail-smtpd:
>
> tcpserver -pR -c50 -x/var/qmail/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u82 -g81 0 smtp \
> rblsmtpd -b qmail-smtpd 2>&1 | splogger smtpd 2 &
>
> Thanks in advance,
> - Ben Schumacher
>
