On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 14:17 +1200, 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. > > His mother is 80 odd and suggesting that she might get a gmail account > or similar seems too complex for him to contemplate suggesting to her. > > 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.
My sister is on comcast.net in the USA, and they keep bouncing my e-mails from the Xtra SMTP server. The delivery-failure message I then receive from Xtra (same day, usually) contains the line "Your message was not delivered because the return address was refused." (The Clear addy I use for this list is for reception and Web mail only; as a Telecom ADSL customer I can't use Clear's SMTP server, or at least I couldn't in the past.) I've also had some difficulty getting e-mails accepted by a couple of different ISPs in Canada. I suspect the problem lies with our friends at Telecom. Can your friend be bothered e-mailing his mum via Web mail? If he's got a Vodafone phone account he can get Vodafone Web mail for free. =====Andrew
