Paul T. wrote:
-----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 post to your list from AOL?
Thanks and happy holidays!
--Paul T.
This may provide a possible explanation: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200201/msg0006 6.html
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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
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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background: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200201/msg0006 1.html