AOL quietly started this about 8 months ago. If you go back and check your old logs you will see it in them as far back as July of last year.
Bruce Barnes, ChicagoNetTech Inc -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Scott Heath Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 18:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] AOL I've been seeing the following in my imail logs: "America Online (AOL) and its affiliated companies do not authorize the use of its proprietary computers and computer networks to accept, transmit, or distribute unsolicited bulk e-mail sent from the internet. Effective immediately: AOL may no longer accept connections from IP addresses which have no reverse-DNS (PTR record) assigned." I've got rDNS records so its not an issue but is anyone else seeing this? ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Rick Baranowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:10:36 -0700 >Don't think so. I have customer that has two AOL accounts and when they >login with one account it works fine if they login with the other >account(to the same number) they will get this error and they couldn't >telnet to the SMTP server. They got routed to an AOL proxy server and >timed out. > >When I talked to AOL they said that it is not there problem because they >are trying to use a third party email system. > >You could imagine what my response was! > >Rick B. > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Klinge >Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 9:33 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] AOL > >Maybe a LookOut error: > >http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=813514 > >~Rick >> >> Has anyone seen or heard whether AOL is changing their policy >> on AOL clients sending/recieving pop3/smtp mail from 3rd >> party mail servers while connected to their network? I have >> several field employees, when dialed up to AOL and trying to >> send email using their corporate email account, get the following >> message: >> >> "Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. >> Possible causes for this include server problems, network >> problems, or a long period of inactivity. Account: 'User Name >> (pop3.domain.com)', Server: 'smtp.domain.com', Protocol: >> SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800CCC0F" >> >> They are not able to telnet to the mail server address or any >> others for that matter (I even tried earthlink.net). The >> telnet connection drops immediatly. I talked to AOL support >> and apparently they did not understand me, but they said that >> clients using pop3/smtp mail to from other mail servers were >> not supported on their network and that this was a recent >> change. They could not provide me with any hard documentation. >> > >___________________________________________________________________ >Virus Scanned and Filtered by http://www.FamHost.com E-Mail System. > > >To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >List Archive: >http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > >To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
