Re: FN-FORUM: AOL and PHP Email

date posted 15th August 2005 14:57

Anthony Cartmell wrote:

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>> Any suggestions appreciated
>
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> I think AOL use SPF records (in the DNS for the sending domain) to
> validate the senders of e-mail. Mail from domains without SPF records
> gets bounced with a message to that effect - you could try checking
> the mail for apache or whichever user sends your PHP mails.

(I mised the beginning of this thread).

I don't think you _need_ SPF, but it may help.

AOL is savage in blocking mail servers. I have a client with a
newsletter, and I can show the logs where somebody signed up for a
newsletter, found it wasn't what they expected or they forgot or
something, and marked it as spam the following day.

Get a few of those, and AOL blocks all mail from that IP. You can setup
a 'feedback loop' to keep track of spam reports from AOL customers, but
as a mid-sized sender of mail, it seems quite hard to convince AOL
you're doing the right thing, and it's their customers who are the
idiots. Gah.

...j