[Gllug] SMTP delays - which end is at fault?

[John Winters]

Bruce Richardson wrote:
[snip]
> If you want to be sure, you need to submit the message IDs to mail admin
> staff at Yahoo and Livemail so they can check logs.  If they're willing,
> that is.

Don't hold your breath if you try to get any assistance out of Yahoo.  I
tried to follow up some cases of e-mail not getting through to Yahoo
users - their server just kept saying, "Try again later" and carried on
doing it indefinitely.

I filled in a detailed problem report online with all the relevant
details - MTA logs, headers etc - and received in a response an
automated response asking me to send *all the same information* again to
a specified e-mail address.  So I went through the whole process again
and it turned out the given e-mail address was false - it didn't exist.

Yahoo are best give a very wide berth.  Their systems don't work and
they're not interested in fixing them.

John
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