[TriLUG] AOL and was AOL's new email policy

[Jon Carnes]

Find out your friends IP address.  It looks like he is not on the Austin
internal network.  Note: RR has several regional internal networks.

What he is doing is clearly legitimate.  He can certainly call tech
support and ask why his mail is getting bounced - when he uses the
server smtp-server.austin.rr.com to drop off his mail.

On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 10:59, Turnpike Man wrote:
> Anyone have any thoughts on this error (server is locally on TX RR thus the use
> of austin.rr.com) (sendmail on RH7.3)
> 
> > On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 00:16, Turnpike Man wrote:
> > > After adding:
> > > 
> > > aol.com    smtp:smtp-server.austin.rr.com
> > > 
> > > to mailertable and running "make"... I am no longer rejected by AOL... but
> > > still nada!!  log genericized again... my buddy in TX decided to try this
> > > before I got around to it... his results are as follows (and there was a
> > > valid AOL account used, user is obviously not it):
> > > 
> > >    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> > > <user at aol.com>
> > >     (reason: 550 5.7.1 <user at aol.com>... Relaying denied)
> > > 
> > >    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > > ... while talking to texlog.texas.rr.com.:
> > > >>> RCPT To:<user at aol.com>
> > > <<< 550 5.7.1 <user at aol.com>... Relaying denied
> > > 550 5.1.1 <user at aol.com>... User unknown
> > > 
> > >     [ Part 2: "Delivery Status" ]
> > > 
> > > Reporting-MTA: dns; MYHOST.MYDOMAIN.COM
> > > Arrival-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 23:43:49 -0600
> > > 
> > > Final-Recipient: RFC822; user at aol.com
> > > Action: failed
> > > Status: 5.7.1
> > > Remote-MTA: DNS; texlog.texas.rr.com
> > > Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 5.7.1 <user at aol.com>... Relaying denied
> > > Last-Attempt-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 23:43:49 -0600
> > >     -------
> 
> Ideas?
> Thanks,
> David M.
> 
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