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AOL is a Cruel Joke

October 18, 2008 by debbie T | Digital Photography

haha, not such a funny joke, but AOL is so f@#*$ stupid!!!

I haven’t chatted regularly in years, but I decided to start chatting w/ one of my online buddies and dug out an old AOL AIM log in and password. I downloaded Adium and logged into my AIM account.

I figured I better head over to AIM.com to check settings and make sure everything was valid and up to date; my email address was incorrect, so I went through the menus to change it.

I get an email at my new email address, and the text instructs me to:

“Please reply to this email and type ‘OK’ within 72 hours to confirm your email address change to xxxxx@gmail.com from xxxxx@xxxx.com. It is really important that you confirm your new e-mail address.”

So, I reply with the word “OK” and silly AOL returns my email:

“Technical details of permanent failure: Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 553 553 Requested action not taken: mailbox name not allowed (state 18).”

What?

I tried no less than three times to reply, and I received the same delivery failure message. The problem appears to be the extra long email address that AOL has set up for me to reply to.

I also tried to change my email address again in my AOL account settings, and it won’t allow me because “There is already a pending change. We cannot change your E-mail Address at this time.” Perfect.

So, since the original email I used to set up the account is inactive, I set up a forward in my web account’s cpanel to “forward” all mail to my gmail account. It’s absolutely crazy how messed up AOL is.

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