Re: AOL mail server problems?

[jlewis () lewis org]

On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Brian Bruns wrote:

> I've noticed some weird things going on with AOL's smtp servers today -
> 2003-10-12 12:37:48 1A8k8X-0002OC-0c Remote host mailin-04.mx.aol.com
> [64.12.138.89] closed connection in response to initial connection
> 2003-10-12 12:37:55 1A8k8X-0002OC-0c Remote host mailin-04.mx.aol.com
> [64.12.136.153] closed connection in response to initial connection
> 2003-10-12 12:38:35 1A8k8X-0002OC-0c Remote host mailin-04.mx.aol.com
> [152.163.224.122] closed connection in response to initial connection

They're probably blocking you.  Have you gotten many scomp complaints 
recently?...perhaps a big backlog of them that you/your abuse people 
haven't dealt with?  Last time I dealt with AOL blocking us, that was the 
cause, and the result was mixed.  Sometimes we'd get the connection closed 
as above, sometimes a 550 message telling us we were blocked.

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