Barry Shein wrote:
Is it just us or are there general problems with sending email to yahoo in the past few weeks? Our queues to them are backed up though they drain slowly.
They frequently return:
421 4.7.0 [TS01] Messages from MAILSERVERIP temporarily deferred due to user complaints - 4.16.55.1; see http://postmaster.yahoo.com/421-ts01.html
(where MAILSERVERIP is one of our mail server ip addresses) .... Just wondering if this was a widespread problem or are we just so blessed, and any insights into what's going on over there.
I see this a lot also and what I see causing it is accounts on my servers that don't opt for spam filtering and they have their accounts here set to forward mail to their yahoo.com accounts - spam and everything then gets sent there - they complain to yahoo.com about the spam and bingo - email delays from here to yahoo.com accounts....
We had this happen when a user forwarded a non-filtered mail stream from here to Yahoo. The user indicated that no messages were reported to Yahoo as spam, despite the fact that it's certain some of them were spam. I wouldn't trust the error message completely. It seems likely that a jump in volume may trigger this too, especially of an unfiltered stream. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.