Re: [exim] AOL onus when sender verify fails?

John W. Baxter wrote:

>On 9/13/07 4:00 AM, "Simon Hobbs" <info@???> wrote:
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>>Assuming I *should not* whitelist AOL, that I should put the onus
>>squarely back on AOL, how should I word this message and who should I
>>send it to? If I can understand the issue better, I can inform my user
>>as to why the responsibility should rest with AOL.
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>3. Why wouldn't you whitelist the AOL servers (as distinct from @aol sender
>addresses, of course), with respect to sender verification callouts? Do you
>actually find AOL servers sending out messages from non-existent @aol.com
>addresses?
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Primary motive is to be a good netizen. On this comment, I think I will
whitelist AOL.

>4. It's not clear, however, why AOL would fail sender verification callouts
>with their VERPed addresses. They do want those bounces (those are the more
>useful ones to a mailing list system).
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VERP - keyword for future learning, thanks.

>This has been pretty much a guess, because of the "improvements" you made in
>the information you sent us.
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Thankyou, this is extremely helpful! I don't have any sysadmin
colleagues to give me nice outlines like this.

Simon