[Jump]

Recently, anyone that tries to register here using an aol.com email never get's the activation code message. Looking through the user data it's a recent event. We had Crashtec, but he changed it to Gmail and worked fine. I see CaptMorgon hasn't responded and has an aol.com email so he must have not gotten it. Now it's Drevent. And I saw a few others.

So you aol users please ask them why they are blocking us.

Also, it would be good to know if you got the email but the reply never gets here.

[Jump]

Well, looking through the server logs confirms again, why aol sucks. They are rejecting all emails by some new set of rules. All your activation emails got dumped by their typical rude disgusting puke arses. No bounce, nothing returned to let me no there is a problem, just dumped.

I'm tracing it to this new rule for aol email. Not sure what I will do about it at the moment.

[Tim]

Hmm.. this must be reason #45923 why AOL blows wild goats (if you will pardon the expression)

[Jump]

I can accept that they have a right to filter whatever they will in their network. But they should bounce it back with a reason.

[Nohbody]

While I'm no fan of AOL, and I agree that not giving a bounce or anything like that is pretty sucky, blocking based on no/bad rDNS is hardly limited to them, nor is the general practice (setting aside AOL's stupid implementation of it) really that far "out there". Since 99.9999999999(etc)% of spammers either don't include or try to fake rDNS, blocking on that aspect does cut down a lot on junk mail.

Jump, perhaps you may want to speak with your host about what they can do about fixing that rDNS thing. (The cynic in me suspects that's a "value added" [read: "pay more for functionality that should've been there in the first place] thing, though.)

[Jump]

Well it's my server so why would it be there in the first place?

I'm working on it.

[Supermax]

I had the same problem a while ago when my own hoster relocated my server to another IP range that didn't have reverse DNS set up yet.

AOL requires that a reverse DNS lookup for your IP resolves to your servers host name. This is usually something that only your server hosting company can do, as reverse DNS delegation is rather tricky.

Most hosting companies have at least generic reverse DNS entries like <somenumber>.<domainname>, if that is the case, it would help to change your server's canonical name to this (even if it is ugly). As you said it is your server, I assume a server with root level access.

[Jump]

yeah, I have a support ticket out. Must have happpened when we went to the new IP's.

[Jump]

Apparently the control panel the host uses should have created the PTR records automaticaly. So there is a malfunction in it's operation. Best to leave it up to the CP provider to fix it in case there is an underlying problem. Hopefully today. Then I get to go in and resend a bunch of activation emails.

[Jump]

Seems to have gotten fixed about 5AM this morning. So I woll be going through the user db as resending account authorization emails to whomever I see that has not replied to one.

[Jump]

Seems to have been a lot of non responces from web.de addresses too.

[Jump]

Ok, I went back to November even though this seems to have started a couple months ago. It's amazing how many peeps register but never post. It seems some emails may not have been relayed by certain hosts if they passed through them. Hopefully, they fixed the CP issue and this won't happen again.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

Jump

crappy webmaster of Joystick Required.