I have a contact form on my site that works perfectly. I've recieved several emails from visitors, but when I reply back to them, my emails came back to me from AOL stating that there have been complaints about my ip address. My site is new (unfinished even)... I've only sent about 8 emails so far... mostly to people I already knew. I contacted my server admin and they told me "This is an AOL issue. they have most of the independant servers all over the net blocked. Its how they limit the bandwidth they use to give their customers less for their money. nothing we can do about that. It's their problem not ours." I then tried sending an email to my own Yahoo email and it went to my spam folder. I still get spam in my inbox on Yahoo, and I can't even get my own email through. That's messed up! Is anyone else having this problem? And, aside from putting a disclaimer on my contact page "to AOL users, etc", is there anything I can do about this? Oh yeah, I also checked Spamcop and they don't have me listed. Any input on this would be appreciated. SullyD Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want...

the host sounds fishy IMO :P it's unethical to just blame someone with "aol blocks independent servers all over the world" as the only reason :D while yahoo also put the server to the list. spam problem is complex, can't deal with them perfectly (yet)... but even in here where there're no law about spam, hosting company admins deal with it seriously... especially in a shared hosting when someone spams from the server (using their account or using server's flaw) can affect everyone using that server... maybe this is what happening with your host... but when I have problem like yours and the host gave me a simple answer like that then I'll change the host :D look for more serious host, the ones who care about flaws in their system and also willing to investigate and cancel someone's account when reports came about them spamming. OR maybe it's just a simple script problem, where the script didn't put enough info into the emails so when Yahoo/aol received it, they think it's spam... what's the host? and what kind do you use for the form? --- Site of the Day