On Jun 7, 2006, at 2:17 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
A friend uses xtra as his ISP. His mother has an aol.com account in the
UK. About 50% of the time he is getting his emails to her bounced by
xtra's smtp server claiming not to have delivered them after 4 days.
The
rest of the time they appear to go through.
AOL has a very very aggressive anti-spam policy that makes life
extremely difficult for every other email administrator on the planet.
In the same vein as saying "AOL is not the Internet" you should also
expect to say "AOL email is not Internet email".
Anyone had similar problems with aol? Workarounds? Is it an xtra thing?
If so I'd suggest he tries getting access to another smtp provider.
Some providers spend more time trying to fit in with AOL than others.
How about your friend getting a gmail account instead? I suspect that
gmail administrators spend more time coddling to AOL's take on
"interoperability" than Xtra can. Plus, you can retrieve gmail as POP
mail, so he might not even have to change his own email usage very
much.
-jim
