-----Original Message----- Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 11:08 AM Subject: AOL email troubles?
Hi,
Anyone out there with AOL subscribers on your SmartList(s) not receiving all your deliveries or maybe not being able to
My list of 2000+ has approximately 400 aol members listed and I send email to them on a daily basis with no problem. Alan, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aksel, Dan W" <dan.w.aksel@intel.com> To: <Smartlist@Lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 2:07 PM Subject: FW: AOL email troubles? Most common problem is the user placing security restrictions to not receive internet e-mail. This is frustrating because they can send e-mail to you, but you can not reply. Dan -----Original Message----- From: Gary Funck [mailto:gary@intrepid.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 11:51 AM To: Smartlist@Lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE Cc: CueMan Subject: RE: AOL email troubles? Paul T. wrote: post
to your list from AOL?
Thanks and happy holidays!
--Paul T.
I work for a company that delivers large amounts of e-mail for Fortune-1000 companies.
We had a very similar problem with AOL: we started to see many of our messages fail to arrive in AOL mailboxes even though AOL reported they were successfully accepted for delivery.
Sending one or two messages at a time would work flawlessly, but when sending anything larger, some might arrive while many would not.
After a lot of testing, we discovered AOL has some very interesting
This may provide a possible explanation: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-peopl e/200201/msg0006 6.html [...] policies
regarding email delivery.
In a nutshell, if you deliver more than some number messages to AOL within an a certain timeframe, AOL will accept them for delivery but in actuality, delete them without notice. The metrics AOL uses to decide what should or should not be delivered are not published. [...]
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