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[pinewoodblue]

Afternoon,

I seem to have an increasing number of these returned mails;

----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to mailin-04.mx.aol.com
>>> DATA
<<< 554 TRANSACTION FAILED

now surfing ye olde web, it seems that all the errors they have have a 'reason' as well. These emails don't. just a Transaction failed.

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks

[Phil]

Originally Posted by pinewoodblue

Afternoon,

I seem to have an increasing number of these returned mails;

----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to mailin-04.mx.aol.com
>>> DATA
<<< 554 TRANSACTION FAILED

now surfing ye olde web, it seems that all the errors they have have a 'reason' as well. These emails don't. just a Transaction failed.

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks

Try
http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/554rlycs.html

[Jacob]

Is there a pattern to the errors?

[pinewoodblue]

First one was last night at 21:25

Since then it looks as if a lot of AOL mails have been returned.
Some sort of Spam thing?

Ta

[Jacob]

If they are just saying:

<<< 554 TRANSACTION FAILED

then it is not a spam thing. I have restarted the mail server, please try that now and let us know how you get on.

Regards,

Jacob

[pinewoodblue]

Just tried to send another mail to an AOL user but got the same message back straight away.

[Jacob]

Please can you open a ticket with the details.

Thanks,

Jacob

[pinewoodblue]

Done

Ta