AIM Bounced Email: Pimp Us

At the top of a bounced email I received was this:

Reason: Remote host said: 550 We would love to have gotten this email to xxxxx@aim.com. But, your recipient never logged onto their free AIM Mail account. Please contact them and let them know that they’re missing out on all the super features offered by AIM Mail. And by the way, they’re also missing out on your email. Thanks.

I’m not sure if this gets sent if the screenname doesn’t exist at all, or only those screennames that are taken, but don’t have active emails.

Pretty creative way to encourage users to activate their email accounts: have others do it for you.

My assumption is the most common bounce is from one AIM user trying to email another within AIM and this message in the bounce email could cause one person to IM another and ask why they can’t email them.

Posted by David M Singer on Nov 07, 2006 at 12:57 AM

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