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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hey folks, have any of you had issues with blocked/returned AOL.com destined email sent from smtp servers on SWBell DSL lines?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> I know this isn't exactly a Linux topic, but I figured some of you may have been affected by this.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> I have two Austin clients that can't send any email to AOL email addresses... that's a real problem when half the </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> country seems to use AOL.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> ...anyhow, after doing the usual he-said-she-said song-and-dance with SWBell, ASI and AOL I discovered that </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">SWBell sent a list of 500 or so "suspicious" IPs to AOL. Suspicious meaning smtp relaying problems were "known" to exist on these servers. Well, my clients don't relay mail and haven't been sending spam. According to AOL, the heart of the matter is that SWBell actually has the smtp relaying problems on their own server. ...not the necessarily 500 or so customers they</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Pimped out to AOL.... What? ...Huh? ..when does this start to make sense? Now I've got clients that can't communicate with their clients... and a bunch of multinational conglomerates pointing their slimy Draconian fingers at each other. I hate this part of the job.</FONT></P>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> Is Anyone else experiencing this crapola?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Jeremy Brooks</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Univista</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">office: 512-832-6209</FONT>
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