Re: [ISW] AOL mail issues

[GuidoZ <uberguidoz () gmail com>]

Hey X. I've had the same problem many times over. Besides this Gmail
account, I also have my own mail server running at home (home office
actually). It's used by all systems locally, and usually works like a
charm.

I've received the EXACT same problem when trying to email clients that
use AOL - emails bounce back to me since the mail server shares my
Comcast BUSINESS account IP#. (Comcast insists I pay for a business
account since I have a home office. It's basically a way to charge me
twice what I would normally pay for the same speed.)

I've yet to find a way around AOL's "solution" for halting open
relay's beyond changing the mail server to Comcast when I need to
email someone at an AOL email address. Top that off with I can even
use any of the three domain name accounts I own since they are on a
shared server which made its way onto a blacklist from some idiot
spamming who knows when. (I've tried to have it removed only to get
automated replies and crap back. I've given up.)

If you happen to find a way around this, I'd be most appreciative for
an answer. It hurts business productivity having to stop everything
I'm doing just to change a mail server to please one ISP.

One options I've thought of - if you want a simple solution, host your
own "website". There are plenty of simple tools out there so even
someone who hasn't a clue about how to setup DNS, HTTP, SMTP, etc
could still pull it off. Google programs like "Simple DNS", "Free SMTP
Server", "Simple Server WWW". While it certainly wouldn't be the most
secure setup, it can be done. Isolating the machine on the network
that is hosting everything would suffice for most. Just a thought.

--
Peace. ~G


On 5/15/05, xyberpix <xyberpix () xyberpix com> wrote:
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> Hi All,
>
> Has anyone else experienced this, and if there's anyone from AOL on
> here, please contact me off list, from a non AOL e-mail addy(you'll see
> why in a bit).
> I'm running my own mail server at home, it's not an open relay, it is
> however running TLS, and various other security bolt on's. I also have
> an ADSL connection with a static IP assigned. Now believe it or not,
> this means that I can't send directly to anyone with an AOL e-mail
> addy, as all my messages get bounced, with the error below:
>
> > > <anyname () aol com>: host mailin-03.mx.aol.com[64.12.137.249] refused
> > > to talk
> > >     to me: 554- (RTR:BB)
> > > http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/554rtrbb.html
> > >     554- AOL does not accept e-mail transactions from dynamic or
> > > residential
> > >     554- IP addresses. 554  Connecting IP: 83.104.33.136
> > > Reporting-MTA: dns; ack.xyberpix.com
> > > X-Postfix-Queue-ID: BBF6C2EDB0B
>
> Now in an odd sort of way, I can kind of see their logic behind doing
> this, as most Open Relays will be trojans on someone's compromised home
> machine. But this really is a crap way to go about it, and
> consequently, I can't even mail postmaster () aol com to complain, as my
> mail to that addy bounces with the same error. I have sent 3 mail to
> support () aol com and postmaster () aol com from a separate account and have
> had no joy as of yet , and would really like to know if anyone else has
> experienced this and found a way around it at all. Also, would this be
> worth actually writing a story about and posting it to a news site. As
> this irritates the hell out of me, I've never heard a good thing about
> AOL, and I guess this is just fuel for the fire. This wouldn't usually
> bug me, but 3 of my friends have AOL addy's because it's cheap, and I
> can't ask them to change their addys. Thoughts, idea's, AOL people???
>
> TIA
>
> xyberpix
>
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