Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
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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?
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> Did you read the message when you tested with telnet? It says
> *exactly* why they drop the connection.
yes, it reads this:
telnet mailin-04.mx.aol.com 25
Trying 152.163.224.122...
Connected to zd.mx.aol.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.
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> | 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.
I'm sure is not a problem inside exim itself because I can't get to
connect, but I don't know what could be a solution. I'm thinking maybe
it try to make a reverse dns and can't get the name for my server or
something (I had that same problem stated on another message)
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> | there are some other servers from which I get a Timed out after
> | inital connection too.
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> 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)
Maybe is just that for aol too? but why so often?
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> -D
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