[58sniper]

Originally Posted by mauisun

aol is giving my host a hard time saying the confirmation emails being sent to people wanting to sign up on my board are actually spam. my host has asked all vB owners to no longer accept aol email accounts, and to remove all existing ones. I have alot of older members who are no longer even on the board. over 800 of them that I need to prune but I cannot prune by email address. anyone can tell me how to get rid of all @aol.com accounts in one fell swoop as opposed to deleting each one by hand, I would be extremely grateful. If i need to post this in another forum, just let me know. thanks
..mauisun

Get a new host. AOL is pretty strict on inbound email. They don't like it from dynamic IP addresses. They don't like it if it's on ANY RBL. They don't like it if there is no rDNS entry. All of these things are thing you should be aware of and check often. If you get them resolved, you should be in the clear.

But if your host is telling you not to accept members who "don't know any better" and use AOL, I'd switch hosts. Quick.