[90187] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AOL 421 errors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Ghali)
Thu May 4 13:45:35 2006
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 10:44:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Matt Ghali <matt@snark.net>
To: Matthew Black <black@csulb.edu>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <web-8706880@remus.csulb.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Don't barrage them with bogus joejob bounce notifications?
IIRC that is a feature of your mail configuration down there.
matto
On Wed, 3 May 2006, Matthew Black wrote:
> We've noticed a surge in 421 e-mail errors from AOL.
>
> Message soft bounced for '###@aol.com', '4.3.2 - Not accepting messages at
> this time ('421', [': (DYN:T1)
> http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/421dynt1.html', 'SERVICE NOT
> AVAILABLE']) []'
>
> It seems as though they've tightened down their policies.
> We're pretty good at preventing spam with our IronPort
> anti-spam gateways and internal policies.
>
> We've also subscribed to their FBL notification service.
> I'm surprised at the types of messages AOL customers consider
> as spam. Anything and everything: university admission acceptance
> notices; instructor class assignments; photos from friends; etc.
>
> matthew black
> california state university, long beach
>
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