[ale] AOL email

[Michael Trausch]

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Jim Popovitch wrote:
> 
> I provide systems that deliver almost 4000 emails a day to AOL users.
> Some of the mailinglists are technical in nature, some emails even go to
> AOL employees.  Some of the mailinglists are health related and can be
> quite graphic in content (although still valid emails) but I've seen no
> recent trouble in the delivery cycle.
> 

I've seen plenty of mail not go through.

Once upon a time, they only blocked your message if it contained an
attachment with an extension of .exe.

Now, it would appear that they use a "scoring" system of one sort or
another to try to determine if the e-mail is spam.  I can't even
send e-mail from two of my addresses to AOL E-Mail accounts at the
moment, for whatever reason, and from the third account (this one) I
can only mail *some* users, not all of them.

It's really quite messed up when you think about it.

I was able to (just now) send an email from this account to my AOL
E-mail account, and I was browsing the headers, and they don't even
use SPF!  If they did, perhaps they'd accept mail from my domains.  Heh.

In any case, the problem is AOL, not the rest of the world.  That
has always been the way of it, and I refuse to believe any differently.

So, get those users away from AOL and onto some REAL Internet
provider.  :-)

	Later,
	Mike

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