What's up at AOL?

Thu Jan 2 19:29:23 UTC 2014

There was a note on the mailop list Dec 27 that mentioned they were
unofficially having a malware/virus issue but not much further.

On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Robert L Mathews <lists at tigertech.com> wrote:
> On 1/2/14, 9:40 AM, Barry Shein wrote:
>> They've been accepting email only occasionally for a few days now.
>>
>> We're on FBL, check reputation is good/green.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> I am just asking if anyone knows what's going on even in general
>> terms.
>>
>> That is, should we stop fussing with this (everyone's hosed w/ AOL
>> this week?) or is it just us?
>
> It's probably not just you. It's been happening intermittently to many
> people since December 26. See, for example:
>
>  http://sitedown.co/aol/aol-smtp-in-appears-to-be-down
>
> And lots of recent, not-too-helpful Twitter conversations like:
>
>  https://twitter.com/TboneRyan/status/416577803752984578
>
> We saw this problem on December 26, 27, and 28, and are now seeing it
> again for the last 3 hours.
>
> --
> Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies, http://www.tigertech.net/
>