[TriLUG] AOL up to it's old tricks

[Jon Carnes]

AOL has a new anti-spam policy in effect.  If you email more than say 20
messages to AOL in less than 30 minutes it will lock out your server
for  a few hours.  Note: I don't know the actual values, and AOL isn't
talking, but this is a common problem that keeps cropping up on the
Mailman lists.

On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 20:53, William Gomeringer wrote:
> I have recently been blocked from sending email to AOL customers from my
> server. Yes, I am aware of the workarounds with /etc/postfix/transport
> and /etc/postfix/main.cf and they have been working just fine until
> today. Here is what those files have to allow me to send mail to
> AOL/Netscape customers
> 
> /etc/postfix/transport
> 
> aol.com smtp:[smtp-server.nc.rr.com]
> .aol.com smtp:[smtp-server.nc.rr.com]
> rr.com smtp:[smtp-server.nc.rr.com]
> .rr.com smtp:[smtp-server.nc.rr.com]
> 
> /etc/postfix/main.cf
> 
> relayhost = smtp-server.nc.rr.com
> 
> This method has worked just fine, and I believe this is the preferred
> method to get around the AOL dynamic IP block, until just a few hours
> ago. Has AOL found a way to block my IP again even though these rules
> are in place? Is anyone else having this problem again? William
> 
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