delivery to aol recipients has been delayed - error
delivery to aol recipients has been delayed - error
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I'm getting the aol delivery error when people send mail from my domain to aol.
This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY.
YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE.
Delivery to the following recipients has been delayed.
xxx@aol.com
I've done some searching and haven't found any clear answer about this one. I'm running E2K3.
thanks.
This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY.
YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE.
Delivery to the following recipients has been delayed.
xxx@aol.com
I've done some searching and haven't found any clear answer about this one. I'm running E2K3.
thanks.
RE: delivery to aol recipients has been delayed - error
RE: delivery to aol recipients has been delayed - error
RE: delivery to aol recipients has been delayed - error
which test did you do?
RE: delivery to aol recipients has been delayed - error
RE: delivery to aol recipients has been delayed - error
RE: delivery to aol recipients has been delayed - error
yes, it shows a PASS.
RE: delivery to aol recipients has been delayed - error
When I PING my mail server's dns name it gives the correct IP.
So why is my connection from my mail server coming from a different IP?
RE: delivery to aol recipients has been delayed - error
RE: delivery to aol recipients has been delayed - error
i have a dual nic server that is my mail server, so maybe it's originating from the wrong interface?
RE: delivery to aol recipients has been delayed - error
I just had the owner of my IP address setup my PTR record. It was a completely different company to my ISP, but they set it up very quickly for us. And immediately afterwards, aol emails started working.
I did some tests via manual telnet SMTP on my mail gateway.
First, I used nslookup to get an aol MX mailserver... mailin-01.mx.aol.com
ie... nslookup
set type=mx
aol.com
exit
Our conversations went like this:
(Blue writing is my commands)
(Red writing is aol responses)
(the "peer name unknown" is the telling part)
----------- BEFORE PTR RECORD SET UP ---------------
CODE
220-rly-xg06.mx.aol.com ESMTP mail_relay_in-xg6.3; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 13:44:13 -0400
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. Effective immediately: AOL
220- may no longer accept connections from IP addresses which
220 have no reverse-DNS (PTR record) assigned.
ehlo mydomain.co.uk
250-rly-yg05.mx.aol.com peer name unknown
250 HELP
mail from:<nickpark@mydomain.co.uk>
250 OK
rcpt to:<test.user@aol.com>
250 OK
data
354 START MAIL INPUT, END WITH "." ON A LINE BY ITSELF
hello
.
421-: (DNS:NR) http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/421dnsnr.html
421 SERVICE NOT AVAILABLE
CODE
220-rly-xg06.mx.aol.com ESMTP mail_relay_in-xg6.3; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 17:46:15 -0400
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. Effective immediately: AOL
220- may no longer accept connections from IP addresses which
220 have no reverse-DNS (PTR record) assigned.
ehlo mydomain.co.uk
250-rly-xg06.mx.aol.com mx1.mydomain.co.uk
250 HELP
mail from:<nickpark@mydomain.co.uk>
250 OK
rcpt to:<testuser@aol.com>
250 OK
data
354 START MAIL INPUT, END WITH "." ON A LINE BY ITSELF
hello
.
250 OK
quit
221 SERVICE CLOSING CHANNEL
Connection to host lost.
Does your NSLOOKUP work and do you get the "peer name unknown" when you say 'EHLO'?
RE: delivery to aol recipients has been delayed - error
thanks for the response.
my nslookup does work and i don't get the "peer name unknown". though i do get a syntax error when i do the "mail from:<me@mydomain.com>" command.
MCI created a pointer to the IP that my mail server is supposedly originating from. So I'm not getting the AOL error anymore. I just can't figure out why the IP changed and why it's not originating from my external IP anymore.
RE: delivery to aol recipients has been delayed - error
Check your routing... 'ROUTE PRINT'