AOL and Verizon tanTALK users

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If you have been wondering why you have not received email from tanTALK when you felt like you should have read on.

AOL and Verizon both tend to drop emails coming from our server. There are many articles describing both companies attemps to block spam.

If you have a Verizon or AOL account and you have received email from tanTALK please reply. I'm curious if any of these people are getting email.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21095

http://www.aota.net/forums/showthrea...&threadid=8771

http://forums.ebay.com/db2/thread.js...=1133899888449

http://www.dmsiusa.com/aol.htm

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/rema...6645~mode=flat

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Get a gmail account. This is the best email system I have ever used. It's free also!

[caribbean tan man]

i have aol and i get my mail.....if AOL blocks tantalk mail it should end up in the spam folder then u just go in and click this is not spam button and all tantalk emails should be allowed

now i did just get a password reset email that i asked for friday and its tuesday however all my PM messages come thru fine now!

i think its a combination of both the new server and aol

[movieking]

The last email from tantalk on my AOL account was on 12/5.

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Lots of the verizon accounts are returning with.

The original message was received at Sun, 11 Dec 2005 00:22:26 -0600
from prometheus.hsv.net [127.0.0.1]

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<*******@verizon.net>
(reason: 450 Requested mail action not taken-Try later:sv16pub.verizon.net)

----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to relay.verizon.net.:
>>> RSET
<<< 421 sv16pub.verizon.net terminating connection
554 5.3.5 deliver: mci=885ec7c rcode=0 errno=0 state=0 sig=relay.verizon.net.
554 5.3.0 Internal error


Final-Recipient: RFC822; ******@verizon.net
Action: failed
Status: 4.2.0
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 450 Requested mail action not taken-Try later:sv16pub.verizon.net
Last-Attempt-Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 07:26:58 -0600

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The AOL email returned the following.

**************************************** ******
** THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY **
** YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE **
**************************************** ******

The original message was received at Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:00:52 -0600
from prometheus.hsv.net [127.0.0.1]

----- Transcript of session follows -----
<***********@aol.com>... Deferred
Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours
Will keep trying until message is 5 days old


Final-Recipient: RFC822; **********@aol.com
Action: delayed
Status: 4.2.0
Last-Attempt-Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 04:35:49 -0600
Will-Retry-Until: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 00:00:52 -0600

[whyter]

Michael,

A 450 error from AOL and Verizon is commonly caused by your server name not properly being returned from a reverse DNS lookup.

You need to verify a couple things on the server that sends your email:

1) make sure your outbound SMTP server is configured with the domain name you are trying to send mail from: "tantalk.com", "server.tantalk.com" (or whatever your server name is)

2) when you do a reverse dns lookup verify that the IP address assigned to your server returns the name the server is trying to send mail from.

In all honesty this is a LAME attempt by some mail providers to cut down on spam, it DOESN'T work, and is a waste of everyones time.

I don't know if you run your own outbound mail server, but if you use someone else just pass them the error, they should be able to take care of it. If you run it yourself and need some help, just let me know. Id be more than happy to help you get it configured and sending to all domains.

Rob.