Re: [Exim] I )(*#$ hate aol

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Author: Kevin Reed
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Subject: Re: [Exim] I )(*#$ hate aol
Chris Blake said:
> On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 04:54, Pat Lashley wrote:
>> Absolutely true. One good check is to log into the mail server and
>> then telnet to open-relay.mail-abuse.org. It will try various open
>> relay tests to the machine you are telnetting from; and log the
>> results back to your telnet session; then close the session.
>
> Good day,
>
> I have a similar problem with AOL, and when I try to telnet to the
> open-relay.mail-abuse.org I get 'unknown host'


Wrong address... Try instead...

telnet relay-test.mail-abuse.org


> I did receive mail from AOL after I raised the query with them as to how
> and why, and they replied :


[snip]

> http://postmaster.info.aol.com/opse.html
>
> [/snip]
>
> However, the link above didn`t work when I tried it.....


They do this alot... they move things and dont update their messages/pages...

Try...

http://postmaster.info.aol.com/tools/dse.html

Now I see where the postmaster@IP is coming from... do they actually send
to that?? Wonder if you deny it (as most would) if that puts you on a
block list ??? :-)

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Kevin W. Reed - TNET Services, Inc.
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