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Re: AOL emails bouncing back certain domains

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Peach)
Sat Dec 12 08:06:44 2015

X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 08:06:22 -0500
From: John Peach <john-nanog@peachfamily.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-reply-to: <566B4605.1030401@ispn.net>
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Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

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I too reported this issue here and an AOL postmaster contacted me
offlist and got our servers sorted.

On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 15:54:13 -0600
Blake Hudson <blake@ispn.net> wrote:

> Aaron, I reported an issue here almost a month ago (521 5.2.1 : AOL will=
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> not accept delivery of this message). AOL support did, eventually,=20
> acknowledge an issue and the failed deliveries did, eventually, clear up=
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> for us. AOL support never stated what the issue was nor did they provide=
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> any explanation. The responses that we received, much like the response=20
> you received, did not give me the impression that their support staff=20
> was provided any information to pass along.
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> The only advice I can offer is to take care of your own stuff and keep=20
> following up with AOL occasionally regarding their issues. There's not=20
> much you can do, as a non AOL customer, to resolve their issue. We did=20
> have some AOL customers reach out to AOL and it seems as though they=20
> also had trouble getting any reasonable level of support.
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> --Blake
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> Hough, Aaron wrote on 12/11/2015 11:12 AM:
> > The following problem has been acknowledged and yet, has been persistin=
g for weeks unfortunately:
> >
> > "Apparently, email messages ( that with the @aol.com domain ) bounces t=
o and in some occasions, from multiple domains and comes up with Error 521.=
 This has been escalated already. As of writing, we are still working towar=
ds a possible solution on this. We would like to apologize for the inconven=
ience this issue might have caused, but let us assure you that higher level=
 technicians have been assigned to getting this resolved."
> >
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John
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