AOL and mail-accepting rules

Fri Jul 22 15:56:21 UTC 2005

I've seen where AOL recently (past 2 weeks) will temporarily suspend
accepting bulk (mailinglists) email for up to 3 hours due to suspected
spam, even from whitelisted IPs.  All queued email eventually flows,
presumably after being verified by humans.  No related SCOMP/TOS
notifications are ever returned indicating that all recipients liked
what they got.

-Jim P. 

On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 08:39 -0700, Eric Louie wrote:
> I have a client who is experiencing problems with sending mail to AOL.
> I am not resposible for their email service (yet) but I'd like to know
> if AOL has changed their policy on anti-spam / mail receipt for their
> customers (RBL, SORBS, rDNS validation), or if there's a real problem
> with AOL inbound mail for the past 2-3 days.
>  
> thanks
> -e-