First of all, this is not an AOL bash. My personal experience with them was less-than-positive but millions of people seem quite happy with them.
But I have recently become aware of some strange problems with sending and receiving emails between my default Hotmail address and various AOL email addresses.
In one case, I have received mail from an AOL user but my responses have never arrived (or been returned.) And, no, I don't believe the user has blocked me.
In another case, I sometimes get email from an AOL user but some that he sends me do not arrive. I had him run a little experiment and send the message to my Hotmail address along with three other addresses I use (including another Hotmail address.)
All were delivered except the default Hotmail address and the "send to" list on the ones that DID arrive included two addresses which don't exist and which the sender did not include: roneggers@aol.com and unspecified@hotmail.com.
(Actually, roneggers@aol.com probably DOES exist but it's not me. Even when I tried out AOL several years ago, I had to choose something like roneggers176548975625435@aol.com to account for the other 176548975625434 Ron Eggers that were using AOL.)
Has anyone here had similar experience or have you ever heard of anything that might account for them?
But I have recently become aware of some strange problems with sending and receiving emails between my default Hotmail address and various AOL email addresses.
In one case, I have received mail from an AOL user but my responses have never arrived (or been returned.) And, no, I don't believe the user has blocked me.
In another case, I sometimes get email from an AOL user but some that he sends me do not arrive. I had him run a little experiment and send the message to my Hotmail address along with three other addresses I use (including another Hotmail address.)
All were delivered except the default Hotmail address and the "send to" list on the ones that DID arrive included two addresses which don't exist and which the sender did not include: roneggers@aol.com and unspecified@hotmail.com.
(Actually, roneggers@aol.com probably DOES exist but it's not me. Even when I tried out AOL several years ago, I had to choose something like roneggers176548975625435@aol.com to account for the other 176548975625434 Ron Eggers that were using AOL.)
Has anyone here had similar experience or have you ever heard of anything that might account for them?