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Glitch blocks Freeserve email to AOL
Some users of the popular UK ISP Freeserve have been unable to email AOL subscribers because the latter's systems see the sent messages as spam. The emails effected are annoyingly being bounced back to their senders with a bundle of error messages.
[blockquote]Some of Freeserve's outgoing email servers are not recognised by AOL, because their configuration means they could be hijacked by spammers.
Freeserve insisted that the problem was easily solved by changing the user's email settings, and that sometimes the problem arose because people use more than one email account.
AOL is now alerting those who have had emails blocked, an AOL spokesman told vnunet.com.
"We are not the only ISP to block Freeserve's email servers. They are more open to spam and so are not a recognised route for sending email to other ISPs," he said.
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[blockquote]Some of Freeserve's outgoing email servers are not recognised by AOL, because their configuration means they could be hijacked by spammers.
Freeserve insisted that the problem was easily solved by changing the user's email settings, and that sometimes the problem arose because people use more than one email account.
AOL is now alerting those who have had emails blocked, an AOL spokesman told vnunet.com.
"We are not the only ISP to block Freeserve's email servers. They are more open to spam and so are not a recognised route for sending email to other ISPs," he said.
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[link=http://www.vnunet.com/News/1151599]Read more[/link]
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