Originally Posted by jim
Your access to this mail system has been rejected due to the sending MTA's poor reputation.
- in a previous thread on email bouncing I said that the common repeating problem with 'MTA reputation' was with the one person in my address book on Tiscali, followed to a lesser extent by AOL addresses. The information I have received is that primarily Tiscali and to some extent AOL have set their spam threshold very high and assuming you, like many, are using a shared server and not a dedicated one it takes only a few spams from one or more of the users of the shared server to cause T and A to 'block' the sending server.. Unless you can get BT to set an instant blocker to outgoing spam on their servers (some chance!) this will happen at painful intervals. It takes up to 24 hours for the sending tech team to 'persuade' T or A that it was an infrequent event and not a mass spam. The other way is for enough folk to complain to T and A (will they listen...?) and get them to come down from anally retentive spam control.
The other AOL 'sensitivity' I have experienced a few years back was trying to send to more than 5 AOL addresses in one email - rejected by AOL for 'mass spamming'. I have not tried again.