AOL email messages sitting in queue 1

[dave2korg]

Hello,

Is there a way I can setup where my AOL messages don't sit in the queue under exchange system manager? All messages say 'rety'.

Yesterday i went in to the SMTP protocol under the mail server and set it from 'all unassigned' to the ip address of the server, and since then have not seen any messages sit in the queue (these are older messages from about 3 days ago).

Does clicking 'force connection' do anything?

 

[E1Designs]

I would wager it is because you do not have reverse DNS set up on your mail server. Relay it through your ISP, or perhaps get a reverse DNS listing set up.

 

[xmsre]

http://dnsreport.com

 

[dave2korg]

PASS Duplicate MX records OK. You do not have any duplicate MX records (pointing to the same IP). Although technically valid, duplicate MX records can cause a lot of confusion, and waste resources.
PASS Reverse DNS entries for MX records OK. The IPs of all of your mail server(s) have reverse DNS (PTR) entries. RFC1912 2.1 says you should have a reverse DNS for all your mail servers. It is strongly urged that you have them, as many mailservers will not accept mail from mailservers with no reverse DNS entry. Note that this information is cached, so if you changed it recently, it will not be reflected here (see the

http://www.DNSstuff.com

Reverse DNS Tool for the current data). The reverse DNS entries are:

163.100.238.69.in-addr.arpa 163.100.238.69.in-addr.arpa. [TTL=7200]

 

[dave2korg]

We use ultradns.com for our offsite dns hosting with a high TTL, and pretty much everything on dnsreport.com comes up with PASS

 

[TechyMcSe2k]

Check your DNS and you may need to add some DNS forwarders to point your outside ISP host DNS for proper resolution.

 

[dave2korg]

yea it was the reverse dns settings.

thanks guys.