>>It also means that whatever it is, is at AOL's end. > >Well, not for sure, not when he can relay his mail through other servers >with the same mail from and rcpt to: and have it delivered. > >>IMail did deliver and AOL accepted, so it becomes their responsibility to >>deliver or return. > >I agree in theory and according to RFC, but there's something weird going >on when his relay trick is succeeding where Imail isn't. > >Len

I agree with Len. It would seem that AOL's decision is based upon the delivering mail server -- not the originating client or the originating mail server.

We've established (I think) that DNS is setup correctly with an A record, MX, etc. So, the next thing I would try is to change the name of the mail server, i.e. from "server.com" to "mail.server.com"

I had this same problem with AOL in the past and, for some unknown reason, changing the name of the mail server cured it. YMMV, but it's worth a shot.

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