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AOL refusal problem



I am fairly sure, though not totally positive, that this is NOT a mutt
problem, but it is so weird that I thought I would ask.

Like all of us, I have to communicate with AOL users all the time.  I have
never had any trouble except with a single user.  When I send her mail, I
get bouncebacks like the one below every time.  As I read the message, it
appears that AOL is getting the message but refusing to deliver it.  If AOL
had blacklisted my ISP for spamming I could understand this, but not only is
my ISP not guilty of such a thing, but all my other AOL mail gets through.

The individual in question is a newbie user and is bugging me about why my
mail doesn't get through.  She has not blacklisted my address.  This happens
with another address with my same domain.  I have replaced her username
below with "username."

Any ideas what's going on here?

Seth Williamson
Daleville, VA








*** ATTENTION ***

Your e-mail is being returned to you because there was a problem with its
delivery.  The address which was undeliverable is listed in the section
labeled: "----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----".

The reason your mail is being returned to you is listed in the section
labeled: "----- Transcript of Session Follows -----".

The line beginning with "<<<" describes the specific reason your e-mail
could not be delivered.  The next line contains a second error message which is 
a
general translation for other e-mail servers.

Please direct further questions regarding this message to your e-mail
administrator.

--AOL Postmaster



   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<laurelll45@xxxxxxx>

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to air-xl03.mail.aol.com.:
>>> RCPT To:<username@xxxxxxx>
<<< 550 username IS NOT ACCEPTING MAIL FROM THIS SENDER
550 <username@xxxxxxx>... User unknown

[-- Attachment #2 --]
[-- Type: message/delivery-status, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 0.3K --]

Reporting-MTA: dns; rly-xl05.mx.aol.com
Arrival-Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 20:45:37 -0400 (EDT)

Final-Recipient: RFC822; username@xxxxxxx
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Remote-MTA: DNS; air-xl03.mail.aol.com
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 username IS NOT ACCEPTING MAIL FROM THIS SENDER
Last-Attempt-Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 20:45:53 -0400 (EDT)