Paul M Foster wrote:
> My wife was trying to send an email to a customer on AOL tonite and got
> the following message back:
>
> 152 fatal error from smtp transport:
> 554- (RTR:DU) The IP address you are using to connect to AOL is a
> dynamic
> 554- (residential) IP address. AOL will not accept future e-mail
> transactions
> 554- from this IP address until your ISP removes this IP address from
> its list
> 554- of dynamic (residential) IP addresses. For additional information,
> 554 please visit http://postmaster.info.aol.com.
>
> I tried telnetting into their mail servers, and got the same exact
> message. We're on a residential DSL with dynamic IP.
>
> It sounds like AOL is blocking email from any dynamic IP. Is that right?
Is it "right"?... ummm... It's quite possibly factual.
> It sounds completely psychotic.
Agreed. Though some would say it is a good thing. It probably does a
very wee little bit to inconvenience stupid spammers. Personally, I'm a
bit disappointed that only Big Brother's trusted huge corporations
should be allowed to put a functioning MTA on the world's largest
computer network.
Was there a news item I missed?
>
> Paul
>
They started doing this in April last year, near as I could tell. Soon
after, they expanded it to mail addressed to some TimeWarner/RoadRunner
email accounts with rr.com endings. Since then I've seen it at qtm.net
and sbcglobal.com. Haven't noticed any others in probably 6 months or
more. Quickest fix might be to relay mail destined for the aol.com
domain through your ISP's mail server.
This link is kind of postfix-specific but might help give you the
general idea.
http://www.gschmidt.net/aolrant
At least the message they give you now is much more informative than the
one they had when they first started this crap.
Buy a stamp and tell your AOL friend to switch ISPs,
Greg
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