I just wanted to do a follow up with the AOL issue.  So far I am still unable to 
deliver to AOL.  I call daily and they keep telling me that I have to wait for their 
escalation team to call me back, which can be now to forever.  The mail stopped on 
Friday which they said they reject mail without a Reverse DNS entry.  I explained to 
them I have one and he says it does not show.  The next day I called and the tech said 
that it is showing up now on their test but I would still have to wait for the 
escalation team.  Then today when i called he said it did not show up on their test 
and if it did yesterday we must be having problems. I told him i have been checking it 
daily with dnsstuff and zoneedit and querys by other isp's and always get a return.  
He stated that theirs is more sophisticated and maybe it is corrupt when it is 
returned.  He said if i get it fixed it still takes 48 hours before I can send mail 
again.  He said every 24 hours they check and you have to pass their test on 2 
checks(48 hours) before they will accept mail aga
in.  I even tried setting up another smtp server on a different IP in my class C and 
they wont accept so it looks like they are blocking my whole block of IP addresses.

I have called verio who delegates my IP block to check on their end if there are any 
issues.  If they say no I am going to try to get Verio to try and contact AOL, Verio 
seems more willing to help with the issue.

Does anyone else have any advice on what else I can do to resolve this or change?

Thanks,

keith
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "kzwick  " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date:  Sat,  7 Jun 2003 08:51:55 -0400

>Adam,
>
>I too am not able to send to AOL.  I finally called them and asked them why.  They 
>said that I don't have a DNS reverse lookup, which I do.  I can go to dnsreport, 
>zoneedit and get replies by other ISPs on my IP address.  They said they would hand 
>it over to a technician and they would be in contact within 24 - 48 hours. :(
>
>I do have a question for the list.  I have my mx records set up as mail.cribellum.com 
>but my mail server answers as cribellum.com.  I had reverse lookup records set up for 
>cribellum.com and mail.cribellum.com pointing to the same IP.  I know it is legal but 
>I was wondering if they were blocking me because it returned both.  I removed the 
>mail.cribellum.com so only cribellum.com answers on the reverse lookup but will ISP's 
>base the reverse lookup on the mx record or the host name of the email server?
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Keith
>
>---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>From: "Adam Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Date:  Sat, 7 Jun 2003 07:25:41 -0400
>
>>I have submitted by IP to be tested by AOL.
>> 
>>However, reading AOL's info they specify that they will email the
>>results to root@ or postmaster@ the IP ADDRESS that you submit.  And
>>they do not let you provide domains.
>> 
>>My Imail config (7.x) will not accept mail addressed to the actual IP
>>address.  Is there a config option to change this?  I tried adding the
>>IP as a domain alias on the main domain, and that doesn't help....
>> 
>>Meanwhile, I still am unable to deliver mail to AOL....
>>
>>Adam
>> 
>>Colony One
>>
>>
>
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