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

[Alain Williams]

On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 11:51:23AM +0100, John Winters wrote:
> 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.

+1

Maybe that is why M$ has been so keen to make them a partner recently.

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