<p>In connection with some volunteer work I do, I send multiple mailings (to about 70 addresses) out of my Yahoo email account. This has gone fine for years, but this summer I’m having trouble with certain messages being bounced back from various aol.com and optonline.net email recipients. It doesn’t happen every time, just sometimes, and it’s often the same recipients, but not always. Is this something going wrong with my account or with theirs? Any workaround ideas? This is driving me nuts!</p>
<p>I get “bounce back” whenever I email someone with an aol account. I checked with our IT person – he said it was them, not us.</p>
<p>See if they have another account?</p>
<p>What you are experiencing are what are known as “bad” ISP lists, some providers of e-mail like AOL and AIM have lists of IP addresses of sending servers (such as your provider has) where they have received a lot of spam from, trying to protect their clients from being spammed by Nigerian money making schemes, etc. Also, some people have their spam settings set that if it sees a message from a user the system thinks might be spam, they bounce it back rather then put it in a spam folder. </p>
<p>One way around it would be to use a different e-mail, like gmail, if it is bouncing it because of who you are, to run the list, or you could use the alternate e-mail to let the people know to make sure your id is on the friendly list not spam.</p>
<p>Well, I’m about the farthest thing from a Nigerian spammer (though perhaps it’s a thought for a post-retirement activity), but I’ll try using an alternative email account and see if that helps. What’s odd, though, is that sometimes my messages get through to these folks, and sometimes they don’t, so if it’s some kind of spam protection system, it’s not very consistent. Thanks for the input.</p>