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I just have an aim account so the end of my email address is @aim.com, and I sent someone who usually has @aol.com at the end of theirs, an email. But when i looked back it in the sent folder, it came up as [theirscreenname]@aim.com, instead of aol. Does this make a difference to them receiving the email? and why did it change from what i typed in?
it looks like it may not matter where you send mail to. Try sending a message to @aol.com, see if you get it.
It appears that aim.com and aol.com are being treated as aliases, at this point. The reasoning on this could only really be answered by AOL, but it looks like the DNS records are the same, so the same Mail Exchanger is handling both domains, and thus, perhaps only looks at the user, not the domain.
aim.com. 1785 IN MX 15 mailin-01.mx.aol.com.
aim.com. 1785 IN MX 15 mailin-02.mx.aol.com.
aim.com. 1785 IN MX 15 mailin-03.mx.aol.com.
aim.com. 1785 IN MX 15 mailin-04.mx.aol.com.aol.com. 556 IN MX 15 mailin-01.mx.aol.com.
aol.com. 556 IN MX 15 mailin-02.mx.aol.com.
aol.com. 556 IN MX 15 mailin-03.mx.aol.com.
aol.com. 556 IN MX 15 mailin-04.mx.aol.com.
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