AOL mail question.

[BahamaMama]

Originally posted by BahamaMama:
to anyone on AOL, i have a question about *blocking senders* of e mail.......... do you happen to know if you block a an address by specific name, rather than by domain, do they know they are blocked....(or do they at least get something returned to them saying their mail did not go thru) ..... or is their mail just lost in cyberspace, and as far as they know you received it?

thought i'd move this out of the SPAM topic, so i could get notified of a response

 

[KotysDad]

BM...

I have been off of aol for about a year but from what I remember....when you block a sender and that sender tries to send you mail, they in return get a message saying "User not accepting mail from this address".

I assume it hasnt changed much, but I might be wrong

 

[BahamaMama]

UGH, thanks KD, i'd better not try that move, then

 

[BahamaMama]

after thinking about this, i figured out that i could test it myself.....DUH....LOL

and you are so right, KotysDad .... i blocked one of my own aol addys, and my hotmail addy, and then tried sending this user a mail from each of them.... AOL user trying to send a mail, just gets a pop up box right away, telling them that the user is not accepting mail from them..... the hotmail user took a bit longer to get notified by returned mail, but it says right in in that it was because they have been blocked, it doesn't just send their mail back to them with no explanation. that was the thing i really need to avoid, as i don't trust this *hotmailer* any further than i could throw her, if i were to do something like that......

if it weren't for 3 people that i acutally enjoy hearing from on hotmail, it would be a PERFECT way to eliinate 50% of my SPAM, tho, (by blocking the entire domain, instead of just specific users) and i think blocking yahoo would eliminate about another 25%, and THAT one i can do

thanks again for the info, KD

 

[KotysDad]

You are very welcome

Glad I can help.