Re: mail.inc / Links/ AOL

Ok, im sending out a newsletter with it. Here are some of the responces from the people using AOL. ie. whoever@AOL.com also all unsubscribe requests have been AOL users. thanx "the links don't appear on my screen...so I send it to whoever@earthlink.net & check it there..."- AOL "No such link exists so take me off your mailing list"-AOL "Thank you for your interesting newsletter. I could not get any results when I clicked on the blue letters, I received a response that the site did not exist. What is wrong?? Can you fix it?? Hope to hear from you. "-AOL "Your articles are very interesting... pls send more. Why are some links not working?"-HOTMAL _______________________________ This email may contain confidential and/or privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review or distribution by others is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please contact the sender and delete all copies. Opinions, conclusions or other information expressed or contained in this email are not given or endorsed by the sender unless otherwise affirmed independently by the sender. _________________________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: "David P. Schwartz" <davids@desertigloo.com> To: "Chris Doyle" <gaur@planetveggie.com> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 10:54 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] mail.inc / Links/ AOL > When you say "none of the links work", can you be a little bit more specific? > Like, what exactly happens? Your computer shuts off or something like that? :-) > > I've heard that AOL has a strange definition of "customer service" where their > firewall dumps emails that it thinks might be junk mail, and they don't bother > to tell anybody. Maybe the reconfigured it to "bounce" the emails instead of > delete them so you at least get something back for your trouble. > > I've heard that this filtering is based on a number of factors, including > specific email domains (eg., hotmail.com, yahoo.com), and getting a batch of > emails submitted within some small time window that have matching Subject > headers and/or content. > > -David > > Chris Doyle wrote: > > > Hi! > > Ok, here the deal, I am using the library mail.inc, sending out email (HTML > > formatt), It is all working fine, execpt for anyone using AOL. For them none > > of the links work. I haven't been able to muck around with it for I dont > > have an AOL account. > > > > Has anyone ran into this problem before? If you have, please reply. > > > > Thanx, > > CD > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >