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Tonya Pope wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Last week, the ISP we rent rack space from made an error in their DNS
> and our mailserver got swamped with other people's mail. We only have
> one machine so Imail is running with CF, IIS, and DNS. This is normally
> not a problem (I've got configuration just right so only reboot when I
> feel like it). In various attempts to block this extra mail (over
> 10,000 got queued), get rid of it, etc., I'm afraid I may have broke
> something. They fixed their DNS problem, so we're back to only our own
> mail. Now, we can't mail to, amongst others, AOL. The log has:
>
> Stack connect fail "205.188.146.8"
>
> That example is one of many AOL addresses. There are other domains it
> can't get to as well, but there are a few it can. It does finally get
> there, but only when it has enough tries to go to thru the other
> gateway. Unfortunately, the other gateway is our ISP and they never
> clear out old records. SO, email that goes thru them has a 50/50 chance
> of having the "FROM" field altered somehow (some of the IPs we have are
> the same IP addresses we had while on their servers).
>
> SO, is anybody familiar with this particular "stack connect fail" error
> and what could cause it? I've tried resetting everything the way it
> was, but I must have missed something? SMTP security is set to relay
> mail for anyone.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Tonya
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