Re-Routing AOL Mails

[Hal Duston]

On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 11:57, christopher downs wrote:
> Adam Davis wrote:
> >On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 gphillip at kaiser.aafp.org wrote:
> >>I don't think the problem is with non-commercial email clients.  I believe
> >>AOL started block email that comes from non-commericial mail servers.   If
> >>you are  running your own email server with roadrunner, I bet that is the
> >>problem.  Check out this article on slashdot
> >>
> >>http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/2327248&mode=nested&tid=126
> >
> >Yeah... My bad (and by bad I mean wrong) wording there.
> >
> >That aside, the problem remains the same =)
> >
> >Any way I can make my client [Pine] or MTA [Exim] smart enough to send
> >emails sent to AOL addresses through another server that hasn't been
> >blocked?
> >
> I noticed this sometime ago, basically roadrunner should filter all mail 
> coming from AOL to be fair gameplay. Im assuming AOL is filtering all 
> 24.* and 65.* networks, seeing they are cable.

More likely what they are doing is filtering email from known "dial-up"
type IP's.  Where a "dial-up" IP is an IP that would be expected to have
an authorized upstream smtp server.

Note that roadrunner _is_ AOL. I.e. AOL/Time Warner Road Runner service.

--
Hal