Back in September of this year AOL began hosting the mailboxes for Mail.com; the transition began by changing the MX servers and how mail was being routed to mail.com users. For a stint of time one would have to be whitelisted at both AOL and Mail.com (formerly under the umbrella of Outblaze). The MXs have been finalized and all mail bound for Mail.com is safely under the umbrella of AOL.
This weekend a new round of changes took place: the rebranding of the Mail.com webmail client. The new client looks very much like AOL's webmail client and behaves accordingly.
In addition to the visible changes that took place, Mail.com's imap/pop preferences also changed. Although the site listed smtp.mail.com as the usable server, mail would not download via this host. From some testing we did, it appears that changing the pop/imap host from Mail.com's to AOL's will restore normal mail delivery.
Cheers!
-Len Shneyder
Director of Partner Relations
& Industry Communications
www.pivotalveracity.com
Thanks for that - I had no idea till I signed in today. At least you've told me how to sort out the SMTP thingy. Bugger. I don't want to be aol-ified.
Posted by: Bob Harvey | December 13, 2009 at 04:51 AM
mail.com has turned into a real piece of glitchy garbage!!
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If I jump off of the roof of 30-storey building holding an open
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Thanks for that - I had no idea until he signed today. At least you've told me how to resolve the SMTP thingy. Bugger. I do not want to be aol-ed.
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What I see is possible electoral fraud, and this is manifested later.
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