There was a note on the mailop list Dec 27 that mentioned they were unofficially having a malware/virus issue but not much further. On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Robert L Mathews <lists@tigertech.com> wrote:
On 1/2/14, 9:40 AM, Barry Shein wrote:
They've been accepting email only occasionally for a few days now.
We're on FBL, check reputation is good/green.
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I am just asking if anyone knows what's going on even in general terms.
That is, should we stop fussing with this (everyone's hosed w/ AOL this week?) or is it just us?
It's probably not just you. It's been happening intermittently to many people since December 26. See, for example:
http://sitedown.co/aol/aol-smtp-in-appears-to-be-down
And lots of recent, not-too-helpful Twitter conversations like:
https://twitter.com/TboneRyan/status/416577803752984578
We saw this problem on December 26, 27, and 28, and are now seeing it again for the last 3 hours.
-- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies, http://www.tigertech.net/