Re: email to aol stuck in the que?
From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 05/27/04
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Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 21:26:08 -0400
Gary Massengale wrote:
> we have reverse DNS configured, static IP, and AOL says we are not on
> any of their blacklists. Although when I check on dnsstuff.com under
> their spamlisting we do show up under BLARSBL, which has blocked a
> range of IPs from Charter(and wants $2000 to remove the address)
Ouch. Talk to your ISP.
> and
> FIVETENSRC, which has also blocked a range of IPs from Charter, who
> is our ISP.
> Talk to Charter?
> Had never heard of either one of these before, so
> hopefully noone is using them to block us.
>
> But if we are blacklisted, wouldnt we be getting DNR's? Or does it
> just backup in the queue as I see happening here?
>
> Sounds like I need to setup that SMTP connector like you mentioned.
> I have read a little about smarthosts, is setting up an SMTP
> connector the same thing?
Yes - set up a connector w/aol.com in the address space & specify your ISP's
SMTP server as smarthost. But again, ouch, re blacklists and extortion.
>
> thanks.
>
> gary
>
>
> "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
> <lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com> wrote in
> message news:uS8eUuzQEHA.1048@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> AOL has started rejecting mail from a lot of servers in an effort to
>> stop spam. Some reasons for being blocked would be -
>>
>> Your SMTP server has no reverse lookup records (PTR)
>> Your IP is considered to be on a dialup or dynamic IP [1]
>> Your IP or SMTP server has been blacklisted as an open relay
>>
>> For the reverse lookup, check out your domain at www.dnsreport.com;
>> ask your ISP to create the record for you, presuming you have a
>> static IP.
>>
>> If you don't have a static IP, you can set up an SMTP connector that
>> points to your ISP's SMTP server & add aol.com there...also might
>> want to do hotmail.com as I've heard rumors they're starting to do
>> the same thing.
>>
>>
>> Gary Massengale wrote:
>>> since last Saturday ALL email we have sent to AOL is sitting in a
>>> queue on my exchange 2000 server. About 180 of them. We never get
>>> any undeliverable messages.
>>>
>>> We also have a few in a queue for Juno, but all the other queues are
>>> maybe 1 or 2 emails. I have been having intermittent problems
>>> sending to Juno, probably need to be whitelisted but never was able
>>> to get a reply from their support desk to do so. We have been
>>> getting the could not be deliverd messages from Juno accounts.
>>>
>>> I have quite a few queues showing up, but most of them are for
>>> domains I never heard of, probably due to all the DNRs from infected
>>> emails.
>>>
>>> My DNS appears to be correct, I could use NSLOOKUP and resolve AOL's
>>> email server, and AOL says we are not blacklisted from them.
>>>
>>> AOL seems to think it is a DNS issue. I have exchange 2000 running
>>> on windows 2000 server. The windows 2000 server handles DNS
>>> in-house, and then forwards to the DNS servers of our internet
>>> provider.
>>>
>>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> Gary
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