AOL users

[french frank]

AOL is particularly intolerant of anything IT interprets as spam. If you use the PM system, the forum software automatically sends you an email if your Inbox is full to notify you. If that keeps happening, AOL reports it as spam which has come from our site. Six complaints have been sent by AOL to our internet hosting service reporting 'abuse' by FoR3. If you are an AOL user, it would help, please, if you kept your Inbox within its limits (or preferably changed to a different ISP).

[MrGongGong]

Sorry boss
There have been some rather "epic" issues with AOL in the last week
there has been a Phishing/Spam email doing the rounds that advises AOL folks to keep the stored mailboxes below 5,000 messages and then directs to a nasty site etc
Which means that some folks have stopped doing this
I guess (like many things) many folks are stuck with the ISP that they started with many years ago, the risks of loosing things by changing everything are to some too great.
Also if you are using another mail client (Mac Mail, Thunderbird, Outlook etc etc ) you very rarely will go online and read the email on the web so it can build up, I managed to have 8,900 messages in my old email folder until it froze

It's actually NOT the inbox that is the problem
it's the "OLD EMAIL" folder

[french frank]

I was mentioning no names Whichever boxes you arrange your received and sent messages in, it's the same difference.

But it's AOL that creates frequent headaches for us (and others) because we use a bulk emailing system. It will suddenly declare a mailing as spam and report us for abuse. We then we have to provide proof that we were given permission to add the people to our mailing list. In the case of the automatic 'Inbox full' messages they're fairly obviously not spam but we still get notified of the complaint.

[MrGongGong]

I was mentioning no names Whichever boxes you arrange your received and sent messages in, it's the same difference.

But it's AOL that creates frequent headaches for us (and others) because we use a bulk emailing system. It will suddenly declare a mailing as spam and report us for abuse. We then we have to provide proof that we were given permission to add the people to our mailing list. In the case of the automatic 'Inbox full' messages they're fairly obviously not spam but we still get notified of the complaint.

I see
I think part of the problem is to do with legacy (folks who, like me, have had to stick to an old email address) and the rather hopeless email interface that AOL has, which means that most folks I've met who have AOL as their email don't use AOL online to access it so have no idea that the mailboxes are full.

Some of the phishing spam is almost identical to real emails from them and AOL often classes its own emails as Spam

[Frances_iom]

FF - just block AOL as an allowable destination - users can always create a zero cost gmail or similar to receive the valuable and carefully crafted missives from this M/B - if they are forced to continue use of AOL (an even more geriatric scheme than the average user here) they can set gmail etc to forward FoR3 missives

[french frank]

FF - just block AOL as an allowable destination - users can always create a zero cost gmail or similar to receive the valuable and carefully crafted missives from this M/B - if they are forced to continue use of AOL (an even more geriatric scheme than the average user here) they can set gmail etc to forward FoR3 missives

I think this is the first time it's happened as a result of auto-generated messages that go through the forum. It happens now and again with the FoR3 bulk mailings.

Anything that goes from the forum automatically gets sent to whichever email address the member has entered in his/her profile. Only aol creates this problem.

[Pianorak]

Phew! Having changed my AOL addy to a gmail.com addy I was unable to post on this thread; but then discovered that I had to "verify" new email address - now done. Hence please ignore my plea to the Webmaster for assistance.

[MrGongGong]

"addy" ????

I think there's a special place for words like that

[Pianorak]

"addy" ????

I think there's a special place for words like that

Trying to be with it. *crawls back under his rock*

[french frank]

Phew! Having changed my AOL addy to a gmail.com addy I was unable to post on this thread; but then discovered that I had to "verify" new email address - now done. Hence please ignore my plea to the Webmaster for assistance.

Now he tells me! Glad it's all back in order. Yes, a second verification is always needed as anyone could register with a genuine address and, having once gained access to the forum, then change it to a false one ... not that anyone would ...