Yahoo Mail Bad News - ABA DSS

**RUKrazy** · November 20th, 2007

I've been using yahoo mail for 10+ years and recently found out there is now a big problem; everyone that uses yahoo, including me, might not be getting important emails since Yahoo made some changes to their email servers. I guess yahoo thinks they can set the rules for everybody else. I found the following comments on this subject on the Internet:

"If you use Yahoo! mail as your main email account, you might not be receiving all of your emails.
What is Yahoo thinking??? Recently Yahoo has started "greylisting extremely deprioritizing" almost every email that goes through their mail server. Greylisting This is a way of attempting to block SPAM. Yahoo mail denies the first every delivery attempt of an email (451 Message temporarily deferred - 4.16.50) from deprioritized mail servers. They assume that SPAMers don't try sending the same email twice, so they put the ip address of that email server on a list and then if the delivery is retried within a short amount of time, they assume that it is a good email.
Now here is the downside. Do you think that spammers care one wit whether they send a "spammy" email once, twice or a thousand times? No, they don't. All Yahoo is doing is increasing the problem. Now instead of being hit by one SPAM email, you'll get three.
Since about October 16, 2006 they have been "overly aggressive" in blocking emails.
Yahoo! Mail has become more aggressive in its acceptance of SMTP connections and denies connections by IP address when these connections do not conform to Internet standard practices.

This results in people that have been sending email to the same person for the past 3+ years to suddenly not be able to send email. Even when the sender is "conforming to Internet standard practices."

I may have to divorce yahoo after 10+ good years.
I think I'm gonna need some counsuling for this one.

**arboristman** · November 20th, 2007

iv never had any problems getting any of my e-mails.
no senders have ever said they needed to try sending it twice.

**mcdoogle** · November 20th, 2007

The Big spamers are from Yahoo mail any way....