Subscription Emails Bouncing

I am getting a good bit of subscription emails bouncing back to me the last few days. Every single one is an AOL email address with the following error message...





Actual email address replaced with X's.

I wonder if AOHell has put you on their spam list?

I'm not chasing them. AOL has terrible email and cause webmasters around the world constant headaches. I'm seriously considering blocking new registrations from using AOL mail.

That wouldn't be so bad.. Gmail is so much better.

Had no idea anyone in the world still uses AOL.

OK - I have used AOL for years and years and it has served me very well across multiple platforms. However, not to have a closed mind - I would like to have forum members make me a case for your email system and WHY (important). I use a MAC at home and PC at work plus Iphone and Ipad. I funnel my business and GMail to my AOL account so I can read it on one site. OK - go for it! And as Joe Friday used to say on Dragnet - "just the facts".

I have used AOL for years and years. I have never had a problem up to this point. I have heard of servers and some websites having problems so I use a .mail account for signing up with forums and sites. That way my email doesn't cause a problem for them. Worked so far.

I just realized I am using my AOL account here. If that is a problem for you just let me know and I will change it to my Mail account.

Scouter... why don't you use gmail for all your mail instead of aol mail? No apps to run if you don't want to...
gmail has excellent apps for iphone, ipad and android.

So Sharksfan - what is a .mail account?

stampvirgin - I have a gmail account - do you know if it can collect mail from other mail sources so I can get my proprietary business email mail over to it? (I hate looking at emails in several places).

I don't know of any mail service that would stop you from forwarding email.
Gmail lets you set your other email accounts so it can get mail for you.

I've been a webmaster and forum administrator for numerous sites for about 15 years now, and 90% of the problems I've had to work around were related to one of two things -- AOL or Internet Explorer. They just aren't designed to play well with others.

Scouter..... it a mail.com email.

Postmaster...... I agree about the Internet Explorer. I have had tons of problems with that. I use Firefox and no problems.

I know tons of people that swear they get all their AOL email. I've got one question. How do you know you didn't get the ones you didn't get?

Here's one topic I left public for demonstration purposes. I deal with this exact scenario at least once every two weeks on registrations and that's just the people that bother to use the Contact Us form to pursue it. How many do you think just go away? Any time I look at the pending member list... those that have registered but not clicked the link in the registration email to confirm.... it's 75% or better AOL emails. It's been going on since 2005 when I started the coin forum. I hang out on several web developer and webmaster only websites and trust me, this scenario hits everyone.

No matter how good you think AOL mail is... it sucks.... and yes, so does IE. It's a webmaster nightmare too.

Hi

I have been using Yahoo mail for years with no problems. One advantage is that I can set up dummy e-mail addresses which I use for website registrations, like this one and some programming sites. If I start getting Spam from any address (the messages are color coded so I know which one is which) I just delete the dummy mail address for a few days. I then "re-instate" it and Spam essentially stops.

Jerry B