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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...
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.
There is a way for hughesnet to get the offending IP address on AOLs trusted list (I tried to do this on AOLs site but couldn't provide the outgoing IP address - no way of knowing). If this is "solved", the answer is to use gmail instead when your huesnet email is blocked!
If it was that simple for any small company (lets face it, Hughes is small on the consumer market side of things) to get on a whitelist, then much larger data centers (think, DPS/VPS providers and similar) could get on as well, which doesn't usually happen.
