[GreenKeys] Fwd: Returned mail: Service unavailable

[Bob McConnell]

"550 Error: 554 Your message was sent in HTML. Send plain text only"

That error message is pretty clear. HTML has never been approved, or 
even proposed as a valid format for email messages. There is a MIME type 
for it, but only as an attachment, not as the body of the message.

It appears the AOL has decided to join Microsoft and a few other 
companies in ignoring the official standards and doing their own thing 
in email. Of course this opens to door to SPAM, trojans, worms and a 
host of malicious infections, but why should they care. It gives them 
some additional eye candy they can use to sell their services and they 
can insert web bugs and other tracking tools to find out what their 
users are up to. More and more servers are finally being configured to 
reject it out of hand. Hopefully that practice will spread enough to 
reverse the current trends, but I am not hopeful it will happen soon.

My recommendation is to find another ISP or at least a different mail 
service. You can complain to AOL and explain why you are leaving, but 
don't expect a reasonable answer from them. They have already decided to 
ignore facts in the matter.

Bob McConnell
N2SPP