AOL and Comcast

[Laura Conrad]

>>>>> "Laura" == Laura Conrad <sunny-O0WJhd4tT3hg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> writes:

    Laura> Based on an informal survey at a party last night, it seems
    Laura> that AOL is currently bouncing all mail from Comcast
    Laura> addresses.  Does anyone know what's happening?  Or if there
    Laura> are any plans on either AOL's or Comcast's part to fix the
    Laura> problem?

In case it helps, here's the bounce messsage I get:

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      This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.      

Delivery to the following recipients failed permanently:

   * <redacted>@aol.com


Reporting-MTA: dns; QMTA06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.56]
Received-From-MTA: dns; OMTA14.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.60]
Arrival-Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:52:02 +0000


Final-recipient: rfc822; <redacted>@aol.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Diagnostic-Code: smtp;  554 TRANSACTION FAILED
Last-attempt-Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:52:02 +0000

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What this says to me is that somehow, Comcast and AOL aren't speaking
the same SMTP.

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