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Article #80Email and AOL
From: Malcolm S. Muir
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 14:47
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 14:47
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- As many customers will be aware, 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. We have recently been in discussion with AOL who are, at a future date, planning to implement just such a scheme as they have found, working with many ISPs around the world, that it significantly impacts their incoming spam volumes. AOL will be adding ALL of the Demon customer IP address space to their blocklist. This will include all dialup customers, all ADSL customers, all leased line customers and all server hosting customers. Please Note: This change by AOL will 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 will not be affected by these changes at AOL 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 will be 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 in future 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 affected by this change, and only if you are affected, and if 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. 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 Demon Internet - -- Malcolm S. Muir Demon Internet Ltd. Sunderland 322 Regents Park Road England London N3 2QQ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 iQCVAwUBPzO3+cUeMni8Zor9AQEyvQP/UXHEyQMmfcE5jRWgbidjc+OdqmbAojhF IvpxwmkcD6kO4GWm+lkZDIr4E1yTLgxPck3oJDLuW33z9XfO6npqA1zzWPaYyt4d oQL0acGIqS1LxNhGZ95GcpI6UDE/vOdne+b8pC5UBMIAk4yJ94QcrNR2k2MTSTqb rS43nQPNmPU= =d+jW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 112c0c,d7cb48275e44d451,start X-Google-Attributes: gid112c0c,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-08 07:52:45 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-01!sn-xit-09!supernews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!demon.net!Malcolm From: "Malcolm S. Muir" <Malcolm@demon.net> Newsgroups: demon.announce Subject: Email and AOL Followup-To: demon.service Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 15:47:21 +0100 Organization: Demon Internet Ltd. Lines: 79 Approved: malcolm@demon.net Message-ID: <xVIP4XA5f7M$EwzW@demon.net> Reply-To: helpdesk@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Host: muir-et4.staff.demon.net Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1060354360 24250 194.159.240.5 (8 Aug 2003 14:52:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 14:52:40 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.01 U <bS3grvfX$o+p8Jofc680ZqzcmN>