INABILITY TO SEND E-MAIL TO "AOL.COM" USERS

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Harold Ginsburg

Amongst people with whom I regularly communicate by e-
mail I have eight (8) AOL users. After I compose an e-
mail to any of these eight individuals and send it I am
informed that it has been "sent."

Soon thereafter I received an automated message informing
me that the message "could not be delivered."

This situation arises ONLY with adressees with an @AOL.COM
EXTENSION, SUFFIX or IP. I have no problem with sending e-
mail to users utilizing a non AOL IP.

I've 90 minutes downloading MSN 8

SYSTEM SPECS

Processor: INTEL 4 CPU 1.60 gHZ
OS Windows XP (5.01.2600)
Internet Explorer 6.00.2800./1106
Amt of memory 255 MB
Free disk space C= 29.1 GB
D= 2.55 GB
MSN6.exe 8.50.0017.1202

I'm not knowledgable enough to know if something
called "html, proxy" in Internet Explorer may be related
to the problem. But I mention it only because I glimpsed
a fleeting reference to something like that.

Any recommendations need to be extremely specific because
I not only unsophisticated but I am apprehensive about
doing something catastrophic.

Thanks in advance to anyone kind enough to assist me.
 
Hi,

Could you copy/paste in the full text of the automated reject notification?

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
 
The ISP you are using may be rejected by AOL servers because
of some problem, such as spam or too many names in the
address block.
It isn't an XP problem, but a problem with email servers and
such.

Try sending a test message to only one person's email
account on AOL. Try using an email such as Hotmail or Yahoo
to send email rather than your ISP pop-mail which may be on
a blacklist.


| Hi,
|
| Could you copy/paste in the full text of the automated
reject notification?
|
| --
| Best of Luck,
|
| Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
|
| Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
|
|
|
| | > Amongst people with whom I regularly communicate by e-
| > mail I have eight (8) AOL users. After I compose an e-
| > mail to any of these eight individuals and send it I am
| > informed that it has been "sent."
| >
| > Soon thereafter I received an automated message
informing
| > me that the message "could not be delivered."
| >
| > This situation arises ONLY with adressees with an
@AOL.COM
| > EXTENSION, SUFFIX or IP. I have no problem with sending
e-
| > mail to users utilizing a non AOL IP.
| >
| > I've 90 minutes downloading MSN 8
| >
| > SYSTEM SPECS
| >
| > Processor: INTEL 4 CPU 1.60 gHZ
| > OS Windows XP (5.01.2600)
| > Internet Explorer 6.00.2800./1106
| > Amt of memory 255 MB
| > Free disk space C= 29.1 GB
| > D= 2.55 GB
| > MSN6.exe 8.50.0017.1202
| >
| > I'm not knowledgable enough to know if something
| > called "html, proxy" in Internet Explorer may be related
| > to the problem. But I mention it only because I glimpsed
| > a fleeting reference to something like that.
| >
| > Any recommendations need to be extremely specific
because
| > I not only unsophisticated but I am apprehensive about
| > doing something catastrophic.
| >
| > Thanks in advance to anyone kind enough to assist me.
|
|
 
Earlier this year AOL started requiring 'Reverse-DNS Lookup'...

"America Online (AOL) and its affiliated companies do not
authorize the use of its proprietary computers and computer
networks to accept, transmit, or distribute unsolicited bulk
e-mail sent from the internet. Effective immediately: AOL
may no longer accept connections from IP addresses which
have no reverse-DNS (PTR record) assigned."

Note the use of the work "may".
--
HTH...Please post back to this thread

~Robear Dyer (aka PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE)
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

 
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