You don't need to get aol on the phone, they have a way to sign up online.
http://postmaster.aol.com/ You should at least be on the feedback loop for them. MSN and yahoo also have similar programs, although the yahoo one is a huge pain. Russ > -----Original Message---- > From: Scott Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 2:21 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Email Verification Tool > > The other thing you need to do is get AOL on the phone and go through the > process of getting whitelisted. > > AOL has a "guilty until proven innocent" policy with incoming mailservers. > There's also bonding services like Iron Port, that you may want to look > into. > > -- > Scott Stewart > ColdFusion Developer > > SSTWebworks > 4405 Oakshyre Way > Raleigh, NC. 27616 > (919) 874-6229 (home) > (703) 220-2835 (cell) > > -----Original Message----- > From: C. Hatton Humphrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 1:58 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Email Verification Tool > > Okay, I'm looking at an interesting situation when it comes to sending > out mass emails. We've got a client with about 9000 email addresses > on their list and some 2000 are invalid Yahoo and AOL accounts. > > When they send, our mail server gets blacklisted. Unacceptable. > > My original though was to have a tool that used telnet and rcpt to > commands to validate the email addresses. I've been asked to find out > if there is anything out there that will do this already. I found the > HexGadget components at http://hexillion.com/hg/ and wonder if it's as > simple as that (and if it's fast enough). I've found > http://www.pivo.com/Default.aspx?page=features&product=emailvalidator > the Pivo validator as well. These are COM objects that appear to > handle the tasks. > > Any thoughts or suggestions? > > Thanks! > Hatton > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:297760 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
