https://www.lafferty.ca/2006/08/31/worst-bounce-message-ever/ Rich Lafferty's OLD blog Sun, 11 Feb 2007 05:34:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.2 https://www.lafferty.ca/2006/08/31/worst-bounce-message-ever/comment-page-1/#comment-2656 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:44:52 +0000 #comment-2656 By the way, AOL is the only free mail service that provides IMAP access.

]]> https://www.lafferty.ca/2006/08/31/worst-bounce-message-ever/comment-page-1/#comment-2655 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:37:31 +0000 #comment-2655 Sounds like they have an autocreate-inbox-on-login mechanism. Somebody can signup for the account, but they have to login before it will work. I’m doing something similar to this on my personal mail system. It’s cleaner to add the entries to the user database and use an autocreate-on-login mechanism than to make the user database transaction dependent on the imap server.

]]> https://www.lafferty.ca/2006/08/31/worst-bounce-message-ever/comment-page-1/#comment-2654 Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:13:58 +0000 #comment-2654 on the other hand, if there’s no such aol account and no such aim screenname, it makes sense that it’s 550 mailbox not found, no special error message.

]]> https://www.lafferty.ca/2006/08/31/worst-bounce-message-ever/comment-page-1/#comment-2653 Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:12:45 +0000 #comment-2653 It makes sense to me, actually. AOL is probably expecting some people to forget whether the person they’re e-mailing is aol.com or aim.com, so if the there isn’t a user johndoe@aol.com, it checks to see if there’s a registered screenname with aim for johndoe, and if there is, it checks to see if they signed up for that annoying aim.com e-mail thing, and if they didn’t, they assume that you were trying to e-mail one of the people on your buddylist because you knew their screenname, not their e-mail address. So it tells you that when your buddy is online next, tell him that he missed your e-mail because he didn’t sign up for their annoying service.

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