Are AOL's MXs mass rejecting anyone else's emails?

Tue Sep 7 12:12:22 UTC 2004

Peter Galbavy wrote:

> Where does the 400lb gorilla lie down ? Whereever it likes.
> 
> AOL does pretty much anything it wants to. If they start 500'ing your 
> mail, it becomes your problem. Unless you have a large budget and a good 
> legal team.

I'm not calling them out on it, I'm just stating that rejecting mail 
with a 500 series error due to a PTR record not being looked up will 
cause more problems and benefit.  Temporary DNS errors do occur so 
slapping mail with a 500 could and will reject legit mail.  Of course, 
AOL can do whatever they please....

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