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Article #11Reminder - Email and AOL
From: Malcolm S. Muir
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 10:57
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 10:57
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- May we remind customers operating mail servers of the following information: Some ISPs operate email "blocklists" as a part of their "anti-spam" measures. These blocklists prevent selected Internet sites from sending email to that ISP's customers. One such scheme uses a list of "end user" IP addresses on the basis that such users will only be sending legitimate email via their own ISP's "smarthost" email server. The idea is that the blocklist will be able to block non-legitimate email because it arrives directly. In particular it should block "spam" sent via insecure systems or virus/worm infections. AOL have implemented just such a scheme as they have found, working with many ISPs around the world, that it significantly impacts their incoming spam volumes. AOL have added ALL of the Demon customer IP address space to their blocklist. This includes all dialup customers, all ADSL customers, all leased line customers and all server hosting customers. Please Note: AOL's system does not affect the majority of Demon customers. Customers who use Turnpike, Outlook, Outlook Express and similar packages will be sending their email via the Demon smarthosts (post.demon.co.uk) and such email is not affected in any way. However, AOL is able to accommodate Demon customers who operate their own email systems, bypassing the Demon "smarthost", provided of course that they are not sending any unsolicited commercial email! The IP addresses of these systems are communicated to AOL as a "whitelist" of permitted addresses, so that their postmaster team can ensure continued direct access to the AOL mail systems. If you have configured your email systems such that you send email directly to the listed MX hosts for a destination you will find that this fails when sending email to AOL. Your options will be to reconfigure your email system so that email for AOL customers is sent via the Demon smarthosts or, alternatively, you will need to ask to be added to the AOL whitelist. If you are being affected by the blocklist and you wish to be added to the AOL whitelist, then send an email to <whitelist@demon.net> with the following details: * Your Demon hostname (and/or domain name used) * The IP address from which you will be sending email. Please don't send any other correspondence to this address or include other questions with your email. Customers who have already sent details to <whitelist@demon.net> and received confirmation do not need to send them again. We will collate this information and liaise with AOL. We will also retain this information for use with any other ISP that implements a similar scheme, and we may in future publish these addresses for general use. However, we will not be disclosing them to anyone other than AOL without making a further announcement first. Malcolm Muir D e m o n - -- Malcolm S. Muir D e m o n Sunderland 322 Regents Park Road England London N3 2QQ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 iQCVAwUBQm9wBsUeMni8Zor9AQEy/QP/bt8mrKvLshUe1gEXDHDPiGhQ3GqiKbiK dm0a+M0VOk4PGx7+8EAcSAG2qBwAMpARTNkIM3ExTdsyUUGN+QR08BTHmsy+33cB WtIYn0hNf7z0enUjfMCHqTxljuBg+AhwcZxPD6M/OVAVf2aEk4lJNWO1Zcz1bTWo 2kfMJbybdeo= =HJYj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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X-Google-Thread: 112c0c,ec20a75577342f1,start X-Google-Attributes: gid112c0c,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed.news.tiscali.de!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!demon.net!Malcolm From: "Malcolm S. Muir" <Malcolm@demon.net> Newsgroups: demon.announce Subject: Reminder - Email and AOL Followup-To: demon.service Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 11:57:10 +0100 Organization: Demon Internet Ltd. Lines: 83 Approved: malcolm@demon.net Message-ID: <upwI3VAGA3bCFwck@demon.net> Reply-To: helpdesk@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Host: muir-et4.staff.demon.net Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1114599541 15603 194.159.240.5 (27 Apr 2005 10:59:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 10:59:01 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.01 U <bS3grvfX$o+p8Jofc680ZqzcmN>