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Re: SMTP problems from *.ipt.aol.com

  • From: Christopher X. Candreva
  • Date: Fri Jan 16 18:35:04 2004

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Ajai Khattri wrote:

> I have several users who connect to our mail server from an IP in the
> *.ipt.aol.com namespace. All are complaining about intermittent SMTP problems.
> I see that outbound SMTP traffic is proxied through AOL servers to our mail
> servers. Has there been a change recently causing this to not work?

We had users who SMTP AUTH relay through us from AOL dsl lines suddenly have
problems this week. Switching them to the submission port (587) has solved
things so far.



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WestNet Internet Services of Westchester
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