AOL blocks all the email

[Corey Edwards]

On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 16:10 -0600, Jordan Gunderson wrote:
> Kip Lawrence wrote:
> > I had this problem too... the solution for me was to have a correct 
> > reverse dns from the domain from where I sent the email. Once I got that 
> > corrected aol customers started getting email from me just fine. Maybe 
> > your having the same problem?
> 
> It might also be this, from their site:
> 
> "504 - (RTR:BB) The IP address you are using to connect to AOL is a 
> dynamic (residential) IP address. AOL will not accept future e-mail 
> transactions from this IP address until your ISP removes this IP address 
> from its list of dynamic (residential) IP addresses. For additional 
> information, please visit http://postmaster.info.aol.com.

The only thing nice I can say is that AOL at least gives good
explanations as to why your message is rejected or delayed. It's better
than nothing anyway.

I find it very interesting to note that of all the very large domains I
send mail to (msn, yahoo, gmail, aol), only AOL seems to cause such
problems. It's hard to say whether one's system actually works better
than another's, but my personal Yahoo account gets a lot of spam very
little of which gets through.

The other day as I was reviewing mail coming into my servers I noticed
that aol.com was not being forged like the others, and I do remember
when it used to be one of the most popular. I wonder if that's related
to their turning SPF on or what. Interesting though.

Corey

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