Are there any published guidelines or standards for people who want to send mail to AOL members?
The AOL guidelines and standards for e-mail senders are all collected here. Please read them carefully before beginning to mail to AOL. Our Tutorial should be able to answer any questions you might have while reading. • What is the maximum e-mail message size that AOL Members can accept from the Internet? The largest piece of e-mail that an AOL member can accept from or send to the Internet is 16 megabytes. This includes the message text, headers and the attachment combined. This size cannot be configured by the Member, or adjusted by the Postmaster. • Can AOL Members accept e-mail attachments that are MIME encoded? Yes. The AOL e-mail software is MIME compliant. As long as correspondents sending e-mail attachments to AOL also have e-mail software that is MIME compliant (and most e-mail software is). • What is the correct syntax for AOL e-mail addresses? The “user name” is the part of the address that appears before the @ symbol: username@aol.com. Valid AOL e-mail addresses can not: •
