Email Blocking

I was trying to send an email to someone at AOL and I'm on Earthlink. The mail was blocked every time I tried and returned from AOL stating that it was a 550 error. Contacted EL and was told that AOL blocks EL due to possible scamming. Did some reading on it and think I somewhat understand how it works.

Abuse Department at EL was supposedly working on getting AOL to release my address/IP (?) so I could send an email. Didn't work and then I was told the following: "When AOL receives a larger volume of mail than their servers can handle, mail messages can become either delayed or rejected entirely. Subsequently, the AOL mail servers will then only allow AOL-originating mail to come through during this peak traffic time.& This process is initiated with the domains that send the highest volume of mail messages to America OnLine's mail servers." What I wound up doing was opening a free email account with AOL, copied my letter into it and wallah, email went thru, no problems.

Wish I could just let it go, but I'd really like to have a little more info on the subject if anyone here can give me some. Thanks in advance.

Perhaps I should cancel EL and try another ISP. I've only had a few problems with EL/Roadrunner in 3 years and they were handled immediately and the Customer Service people were very considerate and helpful. Have cable, speed is fine and overall, very happy with them. Only problem I forsee now is having to use the AOL free mail to send messages which I guess is not such a big deal.

 

go to www.dnsstuff.com im sure you will find youe domain listed as a spam site domain is the name after the @ sign in your email

 

Yes it was listed, though most of the other info on there I didn't understand. But thank you for the link.

 

Have always done this, had AOL years ago and computer freezes were a daily occurrence. Since I've switched, they are few and far between. Thank you.

 

Hi I've just started having a similar problem with Hotmail rejecting my emails to my friends and family, I keep getting rejections sent back through MAILER-DAEMON@n10.bullet.re3.yahoo.com, the following is part of a copy of the emails that keep getting sent back to me and I'm not sending spam (Names removed):

Sorry, we were unable to deliver your message to the following address.

<XXXXXXXXXXX@hotmail.com>:
Remote host said: 550 SC-004 Mail rejected by Windows Live Hotmail for
policy reasons. A block has been placed against your IP address because
we have received complaints concerning mail coming from that IP
address. If you are not an email/network admin please contact your

--- Below this line is a copy of the message.

Received: from [68.142.237.87] by n10.bullet.re3.yahoo.com with NNFMP;
27 Nov 2007 12:30:28 -0000
Received: from [66.196.97.146] by t3.bullet.re3.yahoo.com with NNFMP;
27 Nov 2007 12:30:28 -0000
Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp204.mail.re3.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 27
Nov 2007 09:48:27 -0000
X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3
X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 116322.85735.bm@omp204.mail.re3.yahoo.com
Received: (qmail 17716 invoked by uid 60001); 27 Nov 2007 09:46:22
-0000
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws;
s=s1024; d=yahoo.ie;

h=X-YMail-OSG:Receivedate:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID;

b=24dKTDqpktuuVdUR6SjnhLVamHa6YvLChbjLTnEN/HqQfVc94OjMebFvvAAJOEqY7TAhIkNc5uqrv1YqInmnEjxYBCGuFACF+6D+Cs3bXxjOVOKzbHEsZFEtOD/VQ9B13iRkY/9paw3F0B8VqfinHkDKYmz78osMiiANCBLgQZ8=;
X-YMail-OSG:
lXRzhJsVM1llnTHuC_wMJGjLQdfvAlhUPVdggUt8GRC0PY.G_OpsEVzeTL4e9Ps_Ivpq9ifTqP8Q3mWtwv3syj6qBP7Kbo0ujRJacQ7QaSOvOrGogNr8UFuehjI-
Received: from [89.241.190.146] by web23415.mail.ird.yahoo.com via

Apparently others have had the very same problem and I cannot contact Hotmail nor even Yahoo for that matter to have them unblock, anyone any answers to this?