AOL sender filters

[Kenneth Brody]

Bill Vermillion wrote:
[...]
> > I'm about ready to take these bounce messages as an indication
> > that the person doesn't want to receive mail from the Filepro
> > list at all, and remove their subscription.
> 
> To me that seems like a reasonable move, and then they can
> re-subscribe from a system that won't have that problem
[...]
> > >Your mail to the following recipients could not be delivered because they are not accepting mail from xxxxxxx at hotmail.com:
> > >     xxxxxxx
[...]

But the "problem" is that this person has told AOL to bounce e-mail from
a given source.  Moving to another system won't stop the person from
blacklisting the same person again.

Well, actually, I guess the "real" problem is that it's set to send a
bounce message to the Errors-To address, rather than simply discard it.
So, moving to a system that doesn't send an error message will get rid
of the problem.

If the bounce message includes the text of the original e-mail, this
sounds like an open invitation to get AOL's servers to spam on your
behalf.  (Especially if it discards the original headers, and just
keeps the text.)

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