The whole process of realizing, testing, relaying took some 20 days! Not only I restart the SMTP service, but I had dozens of occasions to reboot my server.

To answer one previous question, yes all my domains have A and MX records properly configured, I even reloaded Imail to another machine, with totally different ip with only 1 domain to test. (sorry Ipswitch, no license for that one, since I am testing this weird problem)

My normal machine is 216.216.179.130, and the primary domain is 1kom.net The test machine is 216.216.179.140 and the primary and only domain is turkiye.net

You can dig the DNSs if you wish. dns1.1kom.net (216.216.179.130)

Soon, I will give you exerpts from log files.

Omer

----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Donnelly" <tech_ddd@ipswitch.com> To: <IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com> Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 1:46 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] iMail Server to AOL, part II

Yes, Omer. As I said, it will keep your server (and therefore your users) from getting valuable information about 'bounced' email. One needs to stop/start the SMTP Service, after these changes, for them to take effect.

Well, since I don't know what/when you did things, I think it would be safer to say that we don't know for sure if it was affecting the situation earlier. Lets see what happens with that disabled and after a SMTP restart, before we draw any conclusions.

Daniel Donnelly _______________________________________________________

----- Original Message ----- From: "Omer Komili" <omers@1kom.net> To: <IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com> Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 2:08 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] iMail Server to AOL, part II

> I had the "Refuse Null Sender" disabled til now, > I just enabled it yesterday. Do you recommend turning this off? > > I know this will not affect my previous problem, since it was like that for > almos a year. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Daniel Donnelly" <tech_ddd@ipswitch.com> > To: <IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com> > Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 10:41 AM > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] iMail Server to AOL, part II > > > It also means that whatever it is, is at AOL's end. IMail did deliver and > AOL accepted, so it becomes their responsibility to deliver or return. The > server could have refused the message, but it did not. > > Do you have, in the SMTP Security settings, the Refuse Null Sender, enabled? > That could keep bounce msgs from AOL getting to you and your users. > > Happy Holidays! > > Daniel Donnelly > > > > > > > > >