Well, I solved it myself by purchasing a SMTP account from www.Fastmail.fm.
It cost $15 for a one-time fee to get use of their SMTP server and it solved
my problems with AT&T. It is also noticably faster! All I had to do was
change the SMTP server in the OE account and change the Port to 26 and it
works great.

But, about AOL and CS arbitrarily rejecting an entire domain, do you thnk
they have decided to reject ALL Worldnet.att.net addresses? I really don't
care any more since I got the new SMTP server but it's amazing that they
would do that.

Tom



"Gary Smith" wrote in message
...
AOL, which also runs cs.com and netscape.com, sometimes arbitrarily
rejects mail from an entire domain. This may have happened to att.net.
If that's the case, staff at att.net will have to resolved the problem
with AOL. AOL probably isn't interested in hearing from you.


Tom Brown wrote:
I use OE and my email address for 10 years has been with ATT.NET. I
connect
to the internet via a local wireless provided.

I am getting LOTS of bounces with the following Subject line: Returned
Mail: delivery problems encountered.

Here is a sample from
------------------------------------------------------------------
The following addresses had delivery problems:


Permanent Failu Other address status
Delivery last attempted at Mon, 25 Sep 2006 19:15:46 -0000
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

I tried to email the Postmaster at AOL and also CS and they also got
rejected. I called AT&T and they said their service was operating
normally
and I called the local outfit and they have not returned my call yet.

Can you imagine what else this could be?

TIA,

Tom




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Gary L. Smith
Columbus, Ohio