BLUE SKY THINKER
22nd Mar 2007, 18:41
Anyone else having this problem; particularly interested if your e-mail account is hosted via 1&1 (http://1and1.co.uk)?
This has been ongoing for months (years actually) - intermittently - but is particularly bad of late; sometimes taking hours to get a message through. I'm led to believe it is an anti-SPAM (filter) measure, the severity of which is particular/peculiar to AOL and well known in the industry (?). 1&1 certainly seems to have given up; not even answering questions on the subject now. The best one of their representatives could suggest this evening was to complain to AOL (hmmmmm) and that the industry is waiting for AOL customers to revolt (hmmmmm+) when they realise how much of their mail is late, or not getting through (!).
I'm hardly a bulk sender of e-mail to AOL addresses; probably 1-2 per day on average. These particular recipients have been finally receiving mail up to twenty-four hours late over the last week. I've been advising them of the problem; presumably 99.99999% of people on AOL will have no idea their mail is late. Some of their senders will - believe me - have completely given up, unknown to them. Quite where the 'revolt' is going to come from in these circumstances, I don't know.
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This has been ongoing for months (years actually) - intermittently - but is particularly bad of late; sometimes taking hours to get a message through. I'm led to believe it is an anti-SPAM (filter) measure, the severity of which is particular/peculiar to AOL and well known in the industry (?). 1&1 certainly seems to have given up; not even answering questions on the subject now. The best one of their representatives could suggest this evening was to complain to AOL (hmmmmm) and that the industry is waiting for AOL customers to revolt (hmmmmm+) when they realise how much of their mail is late, or not getting through (!).
I'm hardly a bulk sender of e-mail to AOL addresses; probably 1-2 per day on average. These particular recipients have been finally receiving mail up to twenty-four hours late over the last week. I've been advising them of the problem; presumably 99.99999% of people on AOL will have no idea their mail is late. Some of their senders will - believe me - have completely given up, unknown to them. Quite where the 'revolt' is going to come from in these circumstances, I don't know.
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This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. The following addresses failed:
<######@aol.com>
SMTP error from remote server after transfer of mail text:
host mailin-03.mx.aol.com[#########]:
554-: (ISP:B2) http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/554ispb2.html
554 TRANSACTION FAILED
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