Not a complete misunderstanding. The SPF initiative is to have something on DNS that verifies the IP a message can come from. So, even if your domain was identified as allowed, they don't want to accept Email unless they can verify that Email with that domain should initiate from the specific IP that's connecting to dump mail off.
I'm surprised that AOL is blocking this way. I knew that a lot of major ISPs were jumping on the bandwagon, but I didn't realize SPF had the kind of penetration that would allow you to only accept Email based on this. The good news is that the SPF record is easy enough to create. -WLS PS: Vote "yes" on interesting to me, also (although agree it is unrelated to this list). -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gunnar Hjalmarsson Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 2:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT: AOL filters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Tom Patterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> I have been experiencing delivery problems with a mailing list >> digest for those on the list using AOL. Below is the information >> which I received concerning the problem. Has anyone else found a >> solution to the difficulty? > > Use SPF on your outgoing mail server, and sign up to be whitelisted > at AOL. This will include setting up a 'feedback loop' so that > complaints from AOL members can be routed to you for removal. > > I have done this and have experienced no difficulties in delivering > mail to AOL since. Hmm.. Off topic or not, I for one find this interesting, and I hope that others do as well. A first observation is that nothing about SPF or AOL's whitelist was mentioned in the information that Tom posted. Then I can't help making a reflection: If I run a mailing list, and one or more with AOL addresses subscribe, I feel it's not right that *I* am the one who need to do stuff in order for the list messages to be delivered. Wouldn't it be much more reasonable that the AOL address holders were required do whichever "whitelisting" measures are needed? Something must be wrong. Or have I misunderstood it all? -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl
