A few comments on my experiences with the AOL postmaster...

AOL seemingly automatically mark ANYONE sending lots of mail to AOL as a
spammer. When I was running a large communities system this was a nightmare
as a lot of our users had AOL accounts. It took use 3 months to convince AOL
to put us on the "we're not spammers list" and we still had problems (we
think they wiped the list perdiocally).

Sending the postmaster email was a pointless exercise. Phone them. (And, no
, I don't know the number)

AOL appear to have almost a complete class C address space (240+) mail
hosts. They can send mail to you really quickly and in volumes only very
high-performance systems can cope with.

Their incoming mail system often runs VERY slowly. I don't know whether this
was us being auto-tar pitted (slowed down), but we had to write code for
Qmail that would limit the number of outgoing SMTP connections to a given
domain. This stopped our entire mail system being ground to a halt when
sending mail to AOL.



import standard.disclaimer.*;

These views are mine and not the company I work for (or have worked for)


-- Jason






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