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

[Jason Clifford]

On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 11:51 +0100, John Winters wrote:
> 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.

There are things you can do to try and improve delivery to Yahoo
(implement SPF and DKIM for a start) but essentially you are right.

People need to understand that sending email to Yahoo accounts should be
considered in much the same way as posting a letter to an address in a
country with a very, very incompetent postal service.

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