[ale] AOL email

[Michael Trausch]

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James P. Kinney III wrote:
>
> Ever since AOL began advertising their free anti-virus/anti-spam for
> their users several of my clients have been having horrible times with
> emailing to and from AOL (l)users. 
> 
> In a nutshell, it looks like anything with an attachment is simply
> dropped by AOL mail systems. I have turned off all spam and virus
> filtering (yikes!) as a test and still the stuff doesn't arrive. This
> looks to me like it's AOL issues.
> 
> Anyone else seen this this? It's driving my clients nuts since they used
> to communicate regularly with AOL people.
> 

Yes, I've actually talked to AOL several times about their various
brain-dead e-mail issues.  They are willing to flex naught.

They also refuse to take mail from arbitrary sites now, that they
deem "not professionally owned".  They also drop mail that appears
to contain anything "bad" - their spam filter isn't very smart.

*shrugs*

I've been looking at it as a selling poing to move people away from
AOL, myself.  The only two people I haven't (yet) moved from there
is my parents, and if I need to send them e-mail, I have an AOL
e-mail address that I can do so with, because it's the only way that
they'll get it in most cases (AOL allows you to access their
mailboxes using IMAP, and send using their SMTP server).

So, the answer to your problem?  Preach!  Teach!  Convert!  :^)

	- Mike

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