The-Kevster Posted January 23, 2005 Posted January 23, 2005 Hi all, I've set up my own mail server on my home network as I wanted to use an exchange server. I've changed the MX records in Cpanel and everythings been working fine, except for sending to @aol.com email addresses, they seem to be failing as this is what i'm receiving from exchange Reporting-MTA: dns; (internal dns server name removed) Final-Recipient: rfc822;PIGANDPANTS@aol.com Action: delayed Status: 4.4.7 Will-Retry-Until: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 22:26:37 +0000 X-Display-Name: --------------@aol.com I'm running an internal DNS as I should so that emails are delivered to the server from inside and outside the network. I've heard it could be a problem with a reverse lookup or the fact i'm on a dynamic IP address (which hasn't changed in 2 years!) i'm really at a loss as to whats causing this. My servers only been running for 2 days and has not been used to send spam so can't be blacklisted. Any ideas guys??? Thanks in advance for any help, The Kevster Quote
Head Guru Posted January 23, 2005 Posted January 23, 2005 AOL will not accept e-mail from servers running on a Dynamic IP address. This is most likely the issue. Are you on a dynamic IP Address? Quote
Head Guru Posted January 23, 2005 Posted January 23, 2005 Ok here it is. http://postmaster.info.aol.com/guidelines/standards.html Per AOL guidelines, and I quote: "AOL's mail servers will not accept connections from systems that use dynamically assigned or residential IP addresses." Hope this helps. Bill Quote
The-Kevster Posted January 23, 2005 Author Posted January 23, 2005 Yeah I gathered this was the problem. I added server23 as a smarthost so for now all my mail gets forwarded throgh server23 (so its like i'm not using my own server). Is there any way I could tell exchange to only use the smart host for emails to aol.com. No need to bother your servers otherwise Quote
Madmanmcp Posted January 24, 2005 Posted January 24, 2005 You might need to read this thread. If you are forwarding to AOL from TCH. http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/i...ndpost&p=108151 Quote
MikeJ Posted January 24, 2005 Posted January 24, 2005 Running a mail server from a residential or (particularly a) dynamic address is generally just a bad idea (without at least a non-blocked outgoing gateway). You will likely find that your address is already blacklisted since it's residential, just because of that fact alone. Even if your address is static, it may still show up in blacklists as dynamic since it's still residential (and generally not trusted). You can try running your IP address through senderbase to test it: http://www.senderbase.org Quote
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