[Gllug] AOL blocks mail from 'dynamic' addresses

Xander Harkness xander at harkness.co.uk
Wed Jun 18 10:47:36 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 11:35, Richard Jones wrote:
> Me too. Here's the message that AOL sends.
> 
> xxxxx at aol.com <xxxxx>: SMTP error from remote mailer after
> initial connection: host mailin-01.mx.aol.com [205.188.156.122]:
> 554- The IP address you are using to connect to AOL is a dynamic (residential)
> 554- IP address.  AOL will not accept future e-mail transactions from this IP
> 554- address until your ISP removes this IP address from its list of dynamic
> 554- (residential) IP addresses.  For additional information, please visit
> 554  http://postmaster.info.aol.com.
> 
> Actually I just used this as a good excuse to get my dad to finally
> dump AOL. I'm really not bothered if AOL can't get my email. Hopefully
> I can return the favour & not process their spam either :-)
LOL,

I hope that Hotmail try this too.  It would remove a lot of other
problem accounts too :-)

Kind regards
Xander
> 
> Rich.
> 
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