AOL hosting mail for MMC/mail.com domains

Posted Oct 30th 2009 2:01PM by Christine Borgia

AOL has inked an agreement to host mail for MMC/mail.com domains. The roll-out will be in several phases. In September, AOL began MXing for mail.com domains. The list of domains can be found on www.mail.com. Right now, AOL is taking the messages on our inbound relays, then handing them off to Outblaze, where the mailboxes are currently hosted. This should not be misinterpreted as AOL spoofing or being an open relay.

New MMC mailboxes are being hosted at AOL. We are in the process of migrating existing MMC mailboxes to the AOL system. This process will continue for the next several weeks until complete.

What does this mean for you?

You will already be seeing SMTP errors from AOL if we do not accept delivery of a message on our relays. This will be the familiar RLY:B1, DYN:T1, HVU:B1, etc. errors. As mailboxes are created on AOL or migrated to AOL, they will be included in our complaint feedback loop process.

What do you need to do?

Nothing new. Delivery, whitelisting, feedback loops, etc. applies to all mail delivered to our complex, whether it is for aol.com mailboxes, my eAddress mailboxes, or any other domains for which we host mail. Any technical questions or delivery issues related to this change should follow our normal Postmaster support process. Mail.com remains an independently owned and operated business. Any business questions related to mail.com should be directed to mail.com.

Christine
Manager, Postmaster Team

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

1. Just for information: there is a major (probably, critical) problem in migration process: I lost all my emails during migration from mail.com and, as far as I know, there are multiple cases of this problem.

Posted at 10:10AM on Oct 31st 2009 by Dmitry

2. How can I recover all my ole info and emails? I lost everything!

Posted at 5:28AM on Nov 7th 2009 by velletti

3. OMG this blows, If I wanted an AOL e-mail setup I would be using one of my multiple IM screename e-mails.
I specifically liked the set-up and management of outblaze as well as the user interface. Now I have to sit there for 30-60 seconds while looking at some retarded emoticon as my mail is retrieved and brought up.......SLOW!!!!!!!

Posted at 11:44AM on Nov 11th 2009 by Dan

4. its a joke AOL is the BIGGEST advertisment Compaqany ...I chose mail.com long tme agoin order to have a nice and easy accessible interface to my e-mails
NOWWWWWWWWWWWW I HAVE TO WAIT BEFORE I GET TO SEE A SCREEEN with my e-mails...

Posted at 7:12PM on Nov 18th 2009 by charles

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