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Bouncing emails

Over the last few days I have had a rash of undelivered email spam in my inbox. Not sure what's going on but now when I send email to anyone with an AOL address it's bouncing back to me.

I am running:
AVG and Kerio all the time and Adaware, Windows Defender and Ccleaner weekly. Have firewall router also.

I do have another email address from my website for which i use mail forwarding to my Orange inbox.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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  • A-Wing
    A-Wing Posts: 121 Forumite
    Right, short answer:

    AOL have a really crap way of handling spam at their servers and quite often block ISPs from sending mail. If you are sending via. a mail server on your ADSL line then it will deffinately fail.

    Contact your ISP / hosting provider and they should contact AOL (a phone call to the US unfortunately for them) to release that IP range.
    Windows is the path to the darkside...Windows leads to Blue Screen. Blue Screen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering...I sense much Windows in you.
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