Reverse DNS was my problem with AOL too.
While I always liked having my own server setup I've since started using a
reseller hosting company, and now my monthly out-of-pocket isn't what the
power to run the system used to cost.
I'm now trying to figure out how to convert my racks and servers into truck
parts.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Kosiba" <kosibar@kolbenet.com>
To: "Steve Hanberg" <steve@OldSub.com>
Cc: <Ie61pah@aol.com>; <wmh678@worldnet.att.net>; <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 6:10 AM
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] where'd everybody go??????
I ran into this just recently. (For those who don't know, I own an
Internet company and have my own network with my own servers on it.) AOL
started bouncing emails from my servers about 98% of the time. Those that
didn't bounce were delayed for about five days. It did turn out to be some
sort of blocking mechanism that AOL denies having when they talk to their
customers, and brag about when they talk to the press (or at least the
parts of the press that focus on highly technical matters - trade journals
and such). I found out what it is because a small local ISP right here in
my town started using the same system and blocking all email from the IP
address of my email server.
Thing is, my company has a VERY strict anti-spam policy - one offense and
you're gone - and the two times that a problem has been reported, we've
worked with the people who were spammed and the people who were spamming
and the administrators of the servers at which the spam was received to
make sure that everything was handled seriously and permenantly and
everybody has been pleased. So this blocking mechanism is clearly faulty.
It's actually a preventative mechanism and has nothing to do with stopping
actual spammers. It isn't open relay filtering or anything like that,
there are just a very few servers that this system decides may be future
spammers and aren't worth receiving mail from. The only way around it (as
a server admin) is to route your mail through another mail server, or at
least change the IP to another Class C block on another domain. In my
case, just changing the reverse DNS did the trick.
As for a practical answer for the end user... AOL is too big to care, so I
think you're stuck unless you don't mind changing providers.
Of course, your problem could be entirely different, but this has been my
(most frustrating) experience.
Rich
'54 3100
'50 3100
'51 3100 parts truck (Just got it yesterday! Isn't it beautiful?)
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Steve Hanberg wrote:
> A couple years ago I had trouble getting email to AOL users from one
> particular email server. Turned out AOL had decided that server was a
> possible source of SPAM, and they did reject all mail from that server.
>
> I suppose they could have changed their policies, but I suspect they
causing
> the problem.
>
> The solution might require autotex.com phoning the AOL Postmaster to talk
it
> through. That's what it took to get my problem sorted.
>
> Are any AOL users getting all the messages?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Ie61pah@aol.com>
> To: <wmh678@worldnet.att.net>; <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 8:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [oletrucks] where'd everybody go??????
>
>
> In a message dated 7/28/03 5:25:15 PM Central Daylight Time,
> wmh678@worldnet.att.net writes:
>
>
> > Subj:Re: [oletrucks] where'd everybody go??????
> > Date:7/28/03 5:25:15 PM Central Daylight Time
> > From:<A
HREF="mailto:wmh678@worldnet.att.net";>wmh678@worldnet.att.net</A>
> > To:<A HREF="mailto:Ie61pah@aol.com";>Ie61pah@aol.com</A>
> > Sent from the Internet
> >
> >
> >
> > ok Pat check it out
> > I am sending a post to you and the list
> > Bill 48'chevy pick-up
> > Channahon,Ill.
> > website
> > <A HREF="http://www.hotrodstogo.com/";>www.hotrodstogo.com</A>
> > There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: <A HREF="mailto:Ie61pah@aol.com";>Ie61pah@aol.com</A>
> >> To: <A
HREF="mailto:wmh678@worldnet.att.net";>wmh678@worldnet.att.net</A>
> >> Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 9:55 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [oletrucks] where'd everybody go??????
> >>
> >>
> >> Bill, I really think something is broken with my server, or the
list
> >> server. I'm not getting any mail from the list. I didn't even get the
> post
> >> that I posted earlier. 4 of you list members responded to my post, but
> all of
> >> you sent it directly to me and a copy to the list. I'm getting the ones
> sent
> >> to me but not the ones though the list. Any ideas whats going on??? Let
> me
> >> know. If you guys responded to my post, the list server must be
working,
> so
> >> it must be on my end, I don't know. I get everybodys mail but the list.
> >>
> >> Patrick A. Hollister '58 step
> >> West Burlington, IA.
> >
>
> Nope, it's still not working. I get the copy you send to me, but not the
> copy via the list. I talked to AOL today, and they said I should be able
to
> receive all email, and they do not put in blocks to stop mass list
mailings.
> I got
> an email from mjb (the list server?) he said the problem is with AOL
> blocking
> all autotex.com mailings. GUESS WHAT....I'm caught in the middle again.
> Sends
> like a vendor problem we had a few weeks ago. I don't know what to do.
> oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
> oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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