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

[Alain Williams]

On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 12:04:23PM +0100, Jason Clifford wrote:
> 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.

It is not US that you need to convince, but those who use Yahoo accounts
and blame the rest of the world for being unable to deliver mail to them.

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