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List:       inet-access
Subject:    Re: Problems delivering mail to AOL?
From:       Bill Brunton <bbrunton () intcon ! net>
Date:       2002-12-19 1:37:26
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Here is what I see. They obviously have some fancy forwarding on the 
hardware level going on.


 telnet  mailin-01.mx.aol.com 25
Trying 152.163.224.26...
telnet: connect to address 152.163.224.26: Connection refused
telnet: connect to address 205.188.156.122: Connection refused
telnet: connect to address 64.12.136.57: Connection refused
Connected to xg.mx.aol.com (64.12.137.89).
Escape character is '^]'.
220-rly-xg04.mx.aol.com ESMTP mail_relay_in-xg4.7; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 
18:43:40 -0500
220-America Online (AOL) and its affiliated companies do not
220-     authorize the use of its proprietary computers and computer
220-     networks to accept, transmit, or distribute unsolicited bulk
220      e-mail sent from the internet.
 





On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 jlewis@lewis.org wrote:

> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 18:38:21 -0500 (EST)
> From: jlewis@lewis.org
> Reply-To: list@inet-access.net
> To: list@inet-access.net
> Subject: Re: Problems delivering mail to AOL?
> 
> On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Lance Julander wrote:
> 
> > In the last few days we've had a rash of customers complaining that
> > email sent to their AOL friends is bouncing back.  We've tried
> > connecting to the AOL SMTP servers and can only get through a small
> > percentage of the time.  The rest of the time the connection seem to die
> > prematurely.
> > 
> > We've noticed the connection issues specifically with:
> > 
> > mailin-01.mx.aol.com (sporadic)
> > mailin-02.mx.aol.com (no response at all)
> > mailin-03.mx.aol.com (no response at all)
> > 
> > Has any one else been experiencing these problems?
> 
> I noticed the same thing and more.  With some of their MX's, I get no 
> response to attempted SMTP connections.  Some open and close the 
> connection with no output.  Some work fine.  Some (even if you connect 
> to the same IP) will work on one connection attempt, then do the 
> open/close thing on the next connection.  Some spit out the following and 
> immediately close the connection:
> 
> 550-The information presently available to AOL indicates that your server
> 550-is being used to transmit unsolicited bulk e-mail to AOL. Based on AOL's
> 550-Unsolicited Bulk E-mail policy at http://www.aol.com/info/bulkemail.html
> 550-AOL cannot accept further e-mail transactions from your server or your
> 550-domain.  Please have your ISP/ASP contact AOL to resolve the issue at
> 550 703.265.4670.
> 
> I called the number and a ticket was opened.  The guy I talked to couldn't
> tell me why we were being blocked.  He couldn't tell me if/when they'd
> lift the block.  He took contact info from me, gave me a ticket number,
> and directions to send a couple of test emails to 2 aol addresses that are
> supposedly unfiltered.  One bounced.  The other made it through.
> 
> 7 hours later, I've gotten no response.  Earlier today, I realized there
> are other ways to get mail from the blacklisted server into AOL and solved 
> the problem with a few simple commands on our side.
> 
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