Re: SMTP to AOL

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This is a possibility here as we can be sure based on the info thus far, but
they may have you on a blacklist for one reason or another...

Workaround: Since you have a SMTP server that can send to AOL, a workaround
would be to configure a connector for the @aol.com address space to route
through that server as a smart host. You would have to set that SMTP server
to allow relays from your Exchange connector box as well.

Fix: You could get more answers form SMTP protocol logging of the attempt to
connect to AOL (821910 How to troubleshoot for Exchange Server 2003
transport issues
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;821910 ) If they
are dropping the connection you could make contact to AOL support to see if
there is a possibility you are blacklisted and why.


--
Ward Flowers (MSFT)
Microsoft Exchange Support Engineer

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"Kevin A" <kevina@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It's already set to max. Another note. I have an SMTP server, that is on
the same subnet, sitting next to the Exchange Box, and it does NOT have
any problems sending to AOL.


"David Elfassy" <David@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Stop sending mail to AOL ;)
Can you increase Diagnostic Logging to see if you get more information?

"Kevin A" <kevina@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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We started having a problem on the 27th of June. We can't seem to
establish
a connection with AOL anymore. We don't have any problems sending to
other
locations, just AOL. The error we're getting follows, any suggestions
would
be greatly appreciated:

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: MSExchangeTransport
Event Category: Connection Manager
Event ID: 4007
Date: 6/29/2006
Time: 5:35:30 PM
User: N/A
Computer: Exchange01
Description:
Message delivery to the host '205.188.158.121' failed while delivering
to
the remote domain 'aol.com' for the following reason: The connection
was
dropped due to an SMTP protocol event sink.
The SMTP verb which caused the error is 'quit'. The response from the
remote server is ''.








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