> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Haber [mailto:mh+exim-users@zugschlus.de]
> What exactly is happening?
>
> AOL is blocking ident requests to their mail servers?
They may not be now. But they apparently were at one time. I had problems
with ident requests to their servers timing out, and their servers not
waiting for the timeout before giving up on the connection.