AOL blocking MailScanner messages!

[DNSAdmin]

At 08:06 PM 12/2/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>I have just tested this and found it not to be true:
>
>220-rly-yb03.mx.aol.com ESMTP mail_relay_in-yb3.3; Tue, 02 Dec 2003
>15:01:11 -0500
>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.


Which means that you never had your reverse DNS correct, or maybe something
happened to it recently. Perhaps your upstream provider?

Cheers,
Glenn

>HELO mailscanner.biz
>250 rly-yb03.mx.aol.com OK
>MAIL from: <jules at jules.fm>
>250 OK
>RCPT to: <steve1 at aol.com>
>250 OK
>DATA
>354 START MAIL INPUT, END WITH "." ON A LINE BY ITSELF
>From: jules at jules.fm
>To: steve1 at aol.com
>Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 18:33:41 +0000
>Subject: This is a test message
>X-MailScanner: Found to be clean
>
>This is a test message. Please delete me.
>--
>Jules
>.
>250 OK
>
>which appears to say it has accepted the message.
>--
>Julian Field
>www.MailScanner.info
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