[Chat] Re: Reply, Please

[volcheck at speakeasy.net]

Gren,

the server that handles the Discussion list is claiming that
AOL's mail server is having some kind of problem, maybe that
it has an invalid MX record or is not responding to queries
to its mail server.  I'm guessing that AOL has taken some
kind of action to protect themselves against the Internet
worm and that this is having unintended consequences.  The
worm is spoofing return addresses, so there are certainly
a gazillion emails going out on the Internet purporting to
be from the aol.com domain when they are in fact not.
It's possible that AOL mail servers are overwhelmed with
sender verification requests, or else they turned this
service off.

I do think this is a temporary problem, and I'm sorry for
the confusion and inconvenience.  I've never seen this
error message before, so I'm guessing as to the true nature
of the problem.

I'll see if I can repost your message myself.

--Emil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: GrenWhitman at aol.com [mailto:GrenWhitman at aol.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 05:31 PM
> To: volcheck at acm.org
> Subject: Reply, Please
> 
> Emil: Can you tell me what's happening with the Charles Village Discussion 
> list? We keep getting kicked back.
> Gren Whitman
> 
> 
> Subj:   EMIL: WHAT'S HAPPENING? GREN WHITMAN    
> Date:   8/20/03 7:06:27 AM Eastern Daylight Time    
> From:   <A HREF="mailto:Gren Whitman">Gren Whitman</A>    
> To: <A HREF="mailto:volcheck at acm.org">volcheck at acm.org</A>    
> BCC:    <A HREF="mailto:portlight at compuserve.com">portlight at compuserve.com</A>    
>     
> 
> 
> Subj: Returned mail: User unknown 
> Date: 8/20/03 6:58:09 AM Eastern Daylight Time 
> From: <A HREF="mailto:MAILER-DAEMON at aol.com">MAILER-DAEMON at aol.com</A> 
> To: <A HREF="mailto:GrenWhitman at aol.com">GrenWhitman at aol.com</A> 
> Sent from the Internet (Details) 
> 
> 
> 
> The original message was received at Wed, 20 Aug 2003 06:57:54 -0400 (EDT)
> from root at localhost
> 
> 
> *** ATTENTION ***
> 
> Your e-mail is being returned to you because there was a problem with its
> delivery.  The address which was undeliverable is listed in the section
> labeled: "----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----".
> 
> The reason your mail is being returned to you is listed in the section
> labeled: "----- Transcript of Session Follows -----".
> 
> The line beginning with "<<<" describes the specific reason your e-mail could
> not be delivered.  The next line contains a second error message which is a
> general translation for other e-mail servers.
> 
> Please direct further questions regarding this message to the e-mail
> administrator or Postmaster at that destination.
> 
> --AOL Postmaster
> 
> 
> 
>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> <discussion at charlesvillage.info>
> 
>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> ... while talking to charlesvillage.info.:
> >>> RCPT To:<discussion at charlesvillage.info>
> <<< 550-Verification failed for <GrenWhitman at aol.com>
> <<< 550-unrouteable mail domain "aol.com"
> <<< 550 Sender verify failed
> 550 <discussion at charlesvillage.info>... User unknown
> 
> 
> Final-Recipient: RFC822; discussion at charlesvillage.info
> Action: failed
> Status: 5.1.1
> Remote-MTA: DNS; charlesvillage.info
> Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550-Verification failed for <GrenWhitman at aol.com>
> Last-Attempt-Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 06:57:57 -0400 (EDT)
> 
> 
> Received: from GrenWhitman at aol.com
>     by imo-d05.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v36_r1.1.) id f.197.1e9f3e63 (4394)
>     for <discussion at charlesvillage.info>; Wed, 20 Aug 2003 06:57:54 -0400 
> (EDT)
> Return-path: <GrenWhitman at aol.com>
> From: GrenWhitman at aol.com
> Message-ID: <197.1e9f3e63.2c74ae31 at aol.com>
> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 06:57:53 EDT
> Subject: Testing
> To: discussion at charlesvillage.info
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> X-Mailer: 7.0 for Windows sub 10693
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