Hi
I am just posting this as information to anyone trying to email Canada using aol. Quite often we have found that the person we were trying to contact in Canada had indeed tried to reply but each time their email was bounced back by aol. As we are getting closer to our move important emails are being lost and consequently we have been phoning to see if replies have been sent, which they have been.

So just a warning to anyone out there, it might be best to set up a hotmail/yahoo or another free email account for contacts in Canada.

Hope this is useful.

wallace

Hi there

I am also with AOL and have been e-mailing contacts all over Canada for the last 2 years with no problems at all.

You may wish to contact AOL to explain the problems you are having - it may be that a simple fix could sort things out for you.

Its not just us. Our realtor has had loads of aol emails bounced back to her so that she cannot contact clients in the UK. Also a large Canadian employer has also had major problems.

Is this just because so much spam comes from "...@aol" . People sometimes set the filters up to deny any mail that comes from a particular domain, so if you have told your email program that such ands such an email was junk, there is a danger that it will bounce anything from the same domain in future?

Had a simlar thing with hotmail and ...@yahoo. Also had my work server not let through important mortgage documents because the system admin had filters in place to reject anything with morgage in the title line due to the preponderance of mortgage related spam.

Just a thought, might be nothing to do with it, but I doubt its really canada related.

Agree with you. AOL to AOL in Canada is fine. AOL Canada to someplace else in the world is risky. My sister-in-law in QP has AOL. Sometines her emails come through; sometimes not. Sometimes mine get to her (I use a DSL Line and not AOL as my provider) and sometimes it bounce back.

You can call AOL and see if there is a fix for this problem. Seems like it is a matter of them "junking" your e-mail before it hits your box.

AOL have a list of ISPs they will accept mail from. If somebody is ending mail from their own server (ie the email server is on their machine) or the ISP is not on the AOL allow list, then it is likely to stopped by AOL as potential SPAM. The only way to allow mail through is to contact AOL who may or may not add it to their allow list. Alternatively, set-up a Hotmail or G-Mail account and control the SPAM yourself.

HTH,

Patrick.

I use aol and have been e mailing Canada for quite sometime with no problems. My family operatate hotmail accounts and also Shaw and I have had no problems at all in receiving or sending e mails in either direction.

One problem I do have with aol on occasions is that it takes it upon itself to put e mails in the spam folder. I discovered this one day by just checking what they had classed as spam and there was an important reply that I had been waiting for for a week!! Check your spam folder regularly in case that is where they are going.

There is something funny about AOL. I have always had trouble sending photos to a friend who is on AOL. And she has trouble sending photos to me.

I cannot really understand why people use AOL. I did in the days gone by when I had dial-up and AOL was the cheapest thing you could get. Now, I pay a fee to my ISP and I would have thought if I wanted to use AOL it would cost me extra.