[TriLUG] AOL's new email policy

[Kevin Flanagan]

On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 13:08, Ken Mink wrote:

Ken,


 Are you sure that they are looking at Dynamic addresses?  I can't
really tell how they would know.  I would suspect that they are trying
to do reverse lookups, and if you aren't coming from a registered domain
they dump it, that's not quite common practice, but not that unusual
either.  

  If that's the case, it's easy to fix, register a domain and have
something on the air that they can resolve back to.



Kevin

> Hello All,
> I recently discovered that any mail I sent from home to an AOL user was
> bouncing. I use my server in my house as my outgoing MTA. I'm on RR. The
> reason for the bounces was that AOL does not accept mail from a MTA at a
> dynamic IP address. I've been running my setup like this for a couple of
> years and the bounces just started this week, so I think this is a new
> policy. I know almost no one who uses AOL, so it really doesn't matter
> to me. However, my wife is an Ebay addict and she's the one that found
> this first. So, obviously it is a huge issue.
> The simple solutions are to relay through RR's smtp server or to pony up
> for a static IP. I was wondering if I could set up my MTA to relay
> through RR only mail being set to AOL? I'm using sendmail now, but I'm
> not married to it. Also, I know some people have RR with a static IP,
> what's the charge for the static address? I may go that route for other
> reasons.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Ken
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