Like a number of folk here on the list, I too have suddenly had problems sending mails to AOL...
Looking back in the archives, it wasn't a recent problem it seems (May 2003)....however up until recently I could send mails fine to ANY AOL address.
could any help diagnose what I suspect is still a DNS issue with my server: mail.eeeff.net
Had similar sending issues with an exchange server on my network. that turned out to be a reverse issue (we werent handling the reverse side of the DNS and so the wrong numbers where being resolved from another source). With a bit of administration we are now managing the reverse AND the forward side of the domain, and mail appears to be sending fine now.
I don't see anything odd about mail.eeeff.net's DNS.
However mail out of mail.eeeff.net is still sitting in the que and resulting in a bounce (see below)
much appreciated
Heath
X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Undeliverable mail: ? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 15:20:39 +0100
Failed to deliver your message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: SMTP: The host does not maintain the SMTP mail service Cannot speak with 'mailin-04.mx.aol.com' for 2 days.
That is very odd. This means that SIMS cannot make a connection at all to that AOL machine, which is really just a name for 4 addresses that seem to rotate on a short schedule. AOL does completely reject connections sometimes when it has difficulties with particular IP addresses or ranges, but it is not a common thing, at least percentage-wise. Not a large fraction of other people are likely to see the same issue.
I know it is awfully generic, but if I were you I'd start at http://postmaster.info.aol.com/trouble/
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Bill Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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