[KLUG Members] issues with AOL

[d.l]

Your mail server doesn't happen to be an open relay does it? I've 
read cases of AOL blocking mail servers that are known to be open 
relays. I'd don't have the link handy right now.

d.l

On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:06:42 -0400, Patrick Stockton wrote:
>Anybody have experience with AOL blocking e-mail from your domain?
>
>It would appear that e-mail from our work domain is being blocked by
>AOL and
>this is really making our HR manager angry.  She seems to think that
>I can
>do something about this.
>
>The rest of us who use local ISP's or Earthlink or such have
>absolutely no
>problem sending work home via e-mail.  Having spent a year in the
>trenches
>of Earthlink customer service I feel compelled to tell her one of
>three
>things.  A) Close your AOL account, B) This is AOL's problem not our
>problem, or C) Let me offer you a free month.
>
>Obviously none of these suggestions are going to win me any points.
>
>But because I can't let an interesting problem sit for long...any
>suggestions?
>
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