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PeterM's avatar
PeterM
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8 years ago

AOL blocks delivery from hughesnet

I read similiar topic but problem is not with the recipient filter.  I have 5 aol folks on email list and they are all (temporarily?) blocked.  Error code 554 RLY:B1 means AOL has a dynamic block bas...
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  • Gwalk900's avatar
    Gwalk900
    8 years ago

    What may be happening is this:

    Hughesnet has many users sharing the same IP address ... hundreds of users. If one of those users has an issue ... virus/malware or is just an outright spammer they may trigger a 'block' being set in place by AOL in this case, but instead of blocking by email address they block by IP address. That being the case, instead of blocking the one offender they instead block everyone sharing that Hughes IP.

    In some cases the block may only be in effect for a set period of time, in other cases it is a persistant block that needs to be handled between the two parties .... Hughes and AOL in the instance.

     

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jcollison251
Sophomore
8 years ago

You are sending mass emails to your email lists using a satellite connection?  Am I reading that right?  That seems a bit hillbilly to me.

 

A shared server with unlimited bandwidth costs $5-10/mo.  Or if you insist on doing things the hillbilly way without an actual server, you can get yourself 5 SOCKS proxies for about $5/month. 

 

Yeah, it's an additional expense, but businesses do have expenses once in a while.  Plus you've said that you've already wasted a lot of time on this, so what's your time worth to you?  You need an IP that you alone are responsible for and have control over, rather than having to go begging to some random ISPs every time issues like this come up.  Trust me, you don't want to continue down this route.  I say that as a programmer who has worked for mass "marketers" (that's the polite term) for 20 years.

 

By the way, I have used AOL mail for a long time (since they bought out Netscape) and I do miss _tons_ of emails.  Always have.  From reputable big banks, I might add.  There is little you can do as an AOL "customer" except get a real email account.  It's on my todo list.

  • PeterM's avatar
    PeterM
    New Poster
    8 years ago

     

     

    jcollison251 wrote:

    You are sending mass emails to your email lists using a satellite connection?  Am I reading that right?  That seems a bit hillbilly to me.

     

    This is not mass mailing.  It's a 30 person list for an organization and I've exchanged emails with participants frequently  in the past.  AOL emails are blocked periodically by AOL - see my comment on "dynamic block" - it's their error code.   Please read my description.  If anything is "hillbilly" it's AOL.
    • Amanda's avatar
      Amanda
      Moderator
      8 years ago

      Hello,

       

      Engineers this morning mentioned they discovered an issue with e-mails last week and it should be resolved now. Can you confirm if you can send email now? 

       

      ~Amanda

      • PeterM's avatar
        PeterM
        New Poster
        8 years ago

        Just like magic, I was able to send email to the 5 AOL addresses last evening.  Since the "dynamic block" has occured before, I'd be interested to know what happened and what I can do in the future if this happens.  AOLs error code (above) describes the block at their server.  I don't think that this only effected me.  Thanks. - Peter