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RE: Yahoo and their mail filters..

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Corbin)
Wed Feb 25 09:36:25 2009

From: Ray Corbin <rcorbin@traffiq.com>
To: "Erik (Caneris)" <erik_list@caneris.com>, Joe Abley <jabley@hopcount.ca>, 
	Micheal Patterson <micheal@spmedicalgroup.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:36:12 -0600
In-Reply-To: <E00B9EBD1532EF4EABA3C51B190BA6150358A582D526@klsapp1.klssys.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

On hotmail's defense at least their support contacts will respond to your e=
mails. It may take a few rounds of proving that they are 'blackholing' your=
 email and them saying 'no were not'..but after a few times of that you kno=
w exactly what to say when submitting a ticket to them (ie I sent this emai=
l to your testing account at xx:xx pm, I cc'ed my address xxx@hotmail.com a=
nd it wasn't received and here are the logs showing your servers accepted t=
he email.).=20

-r


-----Original Message-----
From: Erik (Caneris) [mailto:erik_list@caneris.com]=20
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 10:11 PM
To: Joe Abley; Micheal Patterson
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: RE: Yahoo and their mail filters..

Ditto. They appear to use some strange form of greylisting combined with bl=
ocking. What seems to help is SPF and PTRs that match the EHLO your MTAs wi=
ll send. We didn't implement Domain Keys / DKIM.=20

On a related note, don't get me started on Hotmail. They used to (still do?=
) silently swallow mail into a black hole after accepting it. No NDR, no sp=
am folder, just good ol' mail shredding without anyone knowing. Again, SPF =
and PTRs seem to help.=20

Oh yeah, make sure you're not sending spam to them. That might help too. ;)

Erik
________________________________________
From: Joe Abley [jabley@hopcount.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 9:41 PM
To: Micheal Patterson
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Yahoo and their mail filters..

On 24 Feb 2009, at 21:27, Micheal Patterson wrote:

> This may be old news, but I've not been in the list for quite some
> time. At any rate, is anyone else having issues with Yahoo
> blocking / deferring legitimate emails?

Yes. Everybody else.


Joe





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