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On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:41:52PM -0500, Fernando Sanchez wrote:
| Hi,
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| I'm getting a lot of "closed connection in response to initial
| connection" errors when sending mail to AOL. when I test the MX records
| for aol.com with telnet mailin-04.mx.aol.com 25 I never get to talk to
| their mailserver. Does anybody know the reason why this could be?
Did you read the message when you tested with telnet? It says
*exactly* why they drop the connection.
| It doesn't happen with all the messages to aol, but with most of
| them. Is there someplace I can tweak or something to solve this kind
| of things?
Yeah, use a "smarthost" relay.
There are a few ways you can set that up depending on what tradeoffs
you want to make.
| there are some other servers from which I get a Timed out after
| inital connection too.
Maybe those are just overloaded and can't cope? (there are some MTAs
that appear to just hang after accepting the connection when under a
moderate to heavy load)
-D
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