When am I allowed into New Members Forum?

[habnohab 0]

I am just wondering how long I will be waiting to gain access to the Members only forum? I have followed every instruction that has been given as a new member. Several days later....I am still waiting.

 

habnohab

[MM 6,562]

 

habnohab

We have received no membership request for the user name "habnohab". Did you send the email to member@pattayatalk.com????

[habnohab 0]

Yes sir. I did send the request to that email. If you still did not receive one should I send another?

 

habnohab

[habnohab 0]

My mistake!

 

After looking closely at my original email, I see that I neglected to include my User Name "habnohab." I have sent an email with all of the required information. Thanks Martin.

 

habnohab

[MM 6,562]

My mistake!

 

After looking closely at my original email, I see that I neglected to include my User Name "habnohab."

 

habnohab

Okay, now I see what you did.

 

Anyway, in answer to your original question about how long it takes. I process the membership requests every 3 days...so, it could take up to 3 days for your membership to be activated.

 

For anyone that has an AOL mail account, there seems to be near 100% probability that the reply email to you gets bounced.

[Eneukman 1]

For anyone that has an AOL mail account, there seems to be near 100% probability that the reply email to you gets bounced.

I'm an AOL user for my sins . I would suggest that fellow users check their "spam" folder as AOL may have put the e-mail there. Once you click on "This is not spam" or something similar, e-mails should get through OK.

 

Alan

[MM 6,562]

I'm an AOL user for my sins . I would suggest that fellow users check their "spam" folder as AOL may have put the e-mail there. Once you click on "This is not spam" or something similar, e-mails should get through OK.

 

Alan

It's even worse than that. The mail actually gets returned as undeliverable...and every single email with that state that I have dealt with has been to an AOL account. This is much more serious than simply marking it as spam...all good email services work on doing that, but to be as unreliable at delivery and receipt as AOL is beyond belief.

[Eneukman 1]

It's even worse than that. The mail actually gets returned as undeliverable...and every single email with that state that I have dealt with has been to an AOL account. This is much more serious than simply marking it as spam...all good email services work on doing that, but to be as unreliable at delivery and receipt as AOL is beyond belief.

Why does that not surprise me? .

 

The problem is quite simple. AOL do not believe in providing any standard of customer care or customer service whatsoever. I replied to an e-mail from another AOL member and was told that this person was not an AOL member. Strange, considering that she hosts one of AOL's regular travel chats!

 

Once I get my landline working again, I'll mention this to her as I think she has some contacts who may be able to find out what is going wrong. I also have an address in Dublin to which written complaints can be sent. If any AOL member wants this, send me a PM and I'll be happy to let have you have this.

 

Alan

[cybers1b 8]

It's even worse than that. The mail actually gets returned as undeliverable...and every single email with that state that I have dealt with has been to an AOL account. This is much more serious than simply marking it as spam...all good email services work on doing that, but to be as unreliable at delivery and receipt as AOL is beyond belief.

MM - actually, what kind of undeliverable message do you get? Most likely they just use some block lists for open relay mail servers. once a mailserver is on such a list, providers who use this specific list do not accept mails (they are simply rejected no matter what subject or content).

 

This can also happen if a mail server is (or was at one time) used to send spam.

 

Same thing happened to the True Mailserver in the past and the procedure to follow would be to make sure that teh mail server does not relay 3rd party emails and then request that the mailserver is removed from the block list (this must be requested as it does not happen automated).

 

An example would be:

 

http://www.ordb.org/

 

This happens a lot, especially iof you use the smtp of an web hosting provider that hosts a shitload of other domains on the same smtp as well, some user may abuse this service and as a result the IP is added to the blocklist.

 

at http://www.ordb.org/ you can check if the smtp server that youa re using is considered an open relay and therefore rejected by some providers. the server may just be on one list and AOL may just use this specific list, happens all the time. It happened that n o true customer could send emails to freesurf.ch (an freemail provider in switzerland i think), turned out that they used a blacklist that had us listed as source of SPAM.

 

cheers

cyber

[habnohab 0]

I am in. Thanks Guys.

 

habnohab

[MM 6,562]

MM - actually, what kind of undeliverable message do you get?

It looks like the quoted text below. I checked the ORDB and didn't find pattayatalk or pattayapages.

 

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at pages.pattayapages.com.

I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.

This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

 

:

205.188.159.57 failed after I sent the message.

Remote host said: 421-:  (DNS:NR)  http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/421dnsnr.html

421 SERVICE NOT AVAILABLE

I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long.

[cybers1b 8]

It looks like the quoted text below. I checked the ORDB and didn't find pattayatalk or pattayapages.

MM,

 

this problem is caused by a missing PTR (reverse DNS) entry for your domain. most mailgateways just ignore this but some do make reverse lookup checks to verify the sender.

 

see here:

 

http://www.dnsstuff.com/info/revdns.htm

 

you should contact your hosting nprovider and tell him about this, maybe he is willing to do a PTR record for your domain

 

cheers

cyber

[MM 6,562]

MM,

 

this problem is caused by a missing PTR (reverse DNS) entry for your domain. most mailgateways just ignore this but some do make reverse lookup checks to verify the sender.

 

see here:

 

http://www.dnsstuff.com/info/revdns.htm

 

you should contact your hosting nprovider and tell him about this, maybe he is willing to do a PTR record for your domain

 

cheers

cyber

Thanks, cybers. I've followed it up and sure enough, there was no reverse DNS entry. The ISP has added one. Hopefully my bounced mail folder will stop loading up with missed emails.

Come by the bar and I'll buy you a drink.

[cybers1b 8]

you're welcome - it can take up tp 72 hours before such a change takes effect all over the world though.

 

cheers

cyber