Email Hassle
Well AOL have now decided to block me because of the volume of email I’m sending. So I went to their postmaster site to sort things out and filled in an application to get on their whitelist. The form gave a choice between abuse@ and postmaster@ my domain. I filled it in and after a while noticed I hadn’t had any response.
I then just decided to test to make sure that my postmaster and abuse addresses are working, My domain is at Yahoo and I have it set up to accept email from any address and forward to my Yahoo account. However it turns out that it is forwarding from all addresses apart from postmaster and abuse which it is bouncing!
I am very, very unhappy. I’ve been unhappy with Yahoo for a while because they also won’t do SPF or even their own Domain Keys system so I think the time has come for me to take over the primary DNS for the domain (I’ll get Serve Path to do the secondary). In the process of taking it over I will lose their anonymous service which was quite nice so I’ve also ordered a British Monomarks postbox. As an added bonus this will allow me to add a postal address to the site and register for Google Local which should have SEO benefits.
In the meantime I’m just going to mail the AOL members manually from Yahoo which isn’t ideal.