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 > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
