At 06:40 PM 11/15/99 -0500, Tim Pierce wrote: >On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 02:26:19PM -0500, Nick Simicich wrote: >> At 10:36 AM 11/15/99 -0600, Adam Bailey wrote: >> >On 11/14/99 10:26 PM, Nicole Marie Spring >> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote... >> > >> >>I am receiving an increasing number of complaints from my aol.com >> >>subscribers that they are either not receiving email (33%) from my list or >> >>receiving only sporadic email. (66%) >> > >> >Check your headers. AOL will drop messages that have faulty DNS or other >> >header errors. >> >> In light of what was said, this reply makes little sense. Why would some >> get through and some not get through? > >One possibility is if the recipient's mail server is rejecting the >mail based on some headers that were not generated by the mailing >list (which might include Message-ID, From, Date, or others, >depending on the list software). If the mail is all being sent from the same system, these headers are generally similar. >Another possibility is if mail is being dropped due to some transient >problem with the sender's domain, e.g. poor network connectivity to >their DNS server. Then AOL is badly broken, and their members should complain. >> Why would some su bscribers get some >> of the mail and others get none of it? > >AOL subscribers have been known to turn on mail filters and then >forget or misunderstand what's being filtered. That might >be responsible here. When people have filtered my list mail, AOL does send bounces. The most famous is "X is not accepting mail with attachments" when the mail has no attachment in it. I've also gotten "This sender is not accepting mail from this origin." I suspect that AOL's mail servers are randomly dropping mail on the floor when overloaded because of some unforseen interaction with their anti-spam procedures and that it has nothing to do with the mail itself. -- That which does not kill us, makes us stronger. That which does kill us makes us smell stronger, after a few days, anyway. Nick Simicich mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or (last choice) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scifi.squawk.com/njs.html -- Stop by and Light Up The World!
