Thanks for the AOL FAQ. I noticed something in there that caught my eye.
We've been trying to get reverse dns lookup setup. It is not setup at this
time. Is this my problem?
Robert.
-----Original Message-----
From: Norbert Bollow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 10:33 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Forwarding to AOL issue
> > I've seen some messages in the archive that seem similar to my problem,
> > but I'm not positive. Unfortuantely we have several clients that use
AOL
> > and don't want to check a POP account. When we set up an email account
in
> > QMail as a forward to an AOL account, It appears that AOL is dropping
> > these messages. They never make it into the AOL account and there is no
> > error message coming back.
> >
> > Can somebody tell me why this is happening and provide me with a
solution?
There are varied circumstances that cause AOL to silently
discard email. This is the AOL way of "spam filtering".
One AOL member has put up an inofficial FAQ at
http://members.aol.com/adamkb/aol/mailfaq/dropped-mail.html
I encountered a problem of this kind recently and an AOL staff
member (BTW how to contact AOL is explained in the FAQ mentioned
about) was kind enough to look at the problem. In that specific
case, AOL dropped many (but not all) emails from the mailing list
server because the reverse DNS for that server did not work. This
was beyond our control to fix (the service provider did not
respond to requests) and the problem went away when we moved
servers.
God bless you,
Norbert
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Norbert Bollow, Weidlistr.18, CH-8624 Gruet (near Zurich, Switzerland)
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