[30547] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Can someone test AOL's mx servers for me...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karyn Ulriksen)
Fri Aug 11 07:06:06 2000
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From: Karyn Ulriksen <kulriksen@publichost.com>
To: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 04:04:26 -0700
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Please. Please. Everyone. Thank you. But you can all go home now! I think
I've received about 50 messages now about the RFC compliant '<>' usage and
have got the message. So now I know ... it's right up there with not using
CNAMEs for MX records ... they use to work once upon a time in a more
forgiving internet (whenever that was) or at least a less RFC compliant
internet. But I can take a hint (all 50!).
And I have since figured out what the flippin' other problem with the mail
was.
Thank you all.
Karyn
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Brown
To: Karyn Ulriksen
Sent: 8/11/00 3:47 AM
Subject: Re: Can someone test AOL's mx servers for me...
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 06:04:56PM -0700, Karyn Ulriksen wrote:
> I'm seeing some wierd errors when emailing AOL. The response for the
"MAIL
> FROM: user@domain.com" is a '501 syntax error'.
Is that exactly what you are typing? In that case AOL is being
perfectly reasonable - the correct syntax is "FROM:<user@domain.com>"
(without quotes) and similarly for RCPT TO. The <> are mandatory.
--
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grumpiness)
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