Re: mail to AOL accounts

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From: Simon (abstract2030_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/07/05 

Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 10:35:13 +0800

AOL I belive checks for reverse DNS entry of your mail server.
Check if you SMTP server has the reverse DNS Setup correctly.

~Simon
"Gary Massengale" <garymassengalenoxpzm@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:FYudnTIfA9HTDpvfRVn-iA@comcast.com...
> you may need to setup a "smarthost" or connector to AOL. we did.
> lots of our salesmen used AOL, said they did not get our email. Appeared
> AOL was blocking us. You can contact AOL, but I finally got tired of
> doing that each time and setup a smarthost so our email sent to an aol
> account goes out thru our ISP. Have not had problems sending them email
> since.
>
> garym
>
>
>
> "DaKing" <DaKing@telenet.be> wrote in message
> news:EJuNd.26627$e13.17023@blueberry.telenet-ops.be...
>> Hello,
>>
>> I want to ask this little question. Since the end of last year are users
>> seems to have problems to send to AOL e-mail accounts.
>> I have tested this rare behavior last week and they are right. When I
>> send an e-mail from this account the mail never arrives in the mailbox of
>> our collegue who has an AOL mailbox. We don't get back any kind of error
>> message. It seems that the e-mails are now flying around in the "wild".
>> We have this can't of problem only with AOL mail accounts.
>> Thanks for any help or advice,
>>
>> DaKing
>>
>
>

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