AOL Postmaster contact?

Sun Nov 20 05:42:08 UTC 2005

Oh - I forgot the other advantage of doing this.

When you aggregate all .forward email out through a single box, stuff
that's slipping through your filters starts to stick out like a sore
thumb when you analyze the mail queues on that box, so you can tune
your inbound filters better.  Quite a useful thing to do, really.

srs

On 11/20/05, Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Turns out the reason was a lot of users with .forwards to AOL
> accounts, then reporting .forwarded email as spam.  This email was
> also going out through our standard outbound mail relays, and the
> combination of our outbound spam levels (pretty low for an ISP our
> size) AND .forwarded email tipped the balance.
>
> So what we did was to set things up so that .forward traffic was
> routed out a separate IP.  And we told AOL what that IP was and also
> told them that the only thing coming out of it would be .forward
> traffic.
>