[73884] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Are AOL's MXs mass rejecting anyone else's emails?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Blayzor)
Tue Sep 7 08:13:30 2004
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 08:12:22 -0400
From: Robert Blayzor <rblayzor@inoc.net>
To: Peter Galbavy <peter.galbavy@knowtion.net>
Cc: rwcrowe@comcast.net, andrew@ishiboo.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <00cc01c494cb$ef1e0350$21e0a8c0@petersdesktopho>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Peter Galbavy wrote:
> Where does the 400lb gorilla lie down ? Whereever it likes.
>
> AOL does pretty much anything it wants to. If they start 500'ing your
> mail, it becomes your problem. Unless you have a large budget and a good
> legal team.
I'm not calling them out on it, I'm just stating that rejecting mail
with a 500 series error due to a PTR record not being looked up will
cause more problems and benefit. Temporary DNS errors do occur so
slapping mail with a 500 could and will reject legit mail. Of course,
AOL can do whatever they please....
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