[Lnc-business] AOL is giving us email delivery problems again

[Alicia Mattson]

It is not just AOL giving us delivery problems.  At least three other
providers are bouncing messages from this list.

The Convention Oversight Committee was trying to use the conventions at lp.org
email list, but two of the members use AOL, and none of their messages were
making it through.  We have abandoned that list and instead created a Yahoo
group to communicate.  Emails via the new Yahoo group are reaching the AOL
users so far, though I just set it up yesterday.

For the LNC-Business email list, I told the list to email me copies of
every bounce notification.

When Roland Riemers sent his recent email, it generated a string of bounces
from AOL (Ron Windeler, Gary Johnson), Yahoo (Tim Hagan, Roland Riemers, Ed
Marsh), Comcast (Rich Tomasso), Dan Wiener (SBC Global).  I've cc'd each of
these people on this message in case the message from the list doesn't go
through to them.

I don't know how many emails these folks are missing, so maybe some of them
should check the online archive here:
http://hq.lp.org/pipermail/lnc-business_hq.lp.org/
and let us know how many they are missing.

This is not a problem that I know how to fix.  I'm just the messenger.

-Alicia





On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Alicia Mattson <agmattson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just FYI, we're again having email delivery problems for AOL users.  Two
> of the COC members who use AOL were not receiving emails from the COC
> list.  Also yesterday, the LNC-Business list let me know it was having
> delivery problems and had auto-removed Gary Johnson and Ron Windeler due to
> the number of times AOL has bounced their emails back.  I reset their
> excessive bounce flags so the list will continue to send to them, but in
> the meantime those two might not have received all the messages, and it may
> well happen over and over again.  Other AOL users may be having a problem
> also, but had not bounced enough messages to get punted from the list.
>
> Any AOL user on our email list should probably routinely check the online
> archive at:   http://hq.lp.org/pipermail/lnc-business_hq.lp.org/
> to see if they are missing any messages.
>
> This is likely again a problem with AOL's DMARC policies as we have
> previously discussed.  I see a configuration option in the email list that
> MIGHT help with this problem, but I want to find and speak with someone
> more knowledgeable about the impact and side effects of making that
> configuration change before I try it.  I am not an expert in this
> territory, just have read about it on the internet.  In the past, Eric
> Dixon would have been the guy I asked first, but since he's gone, we may
> need advice from outside the LNC.
>
> -Alicia
>
>
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