[sclug] yahoo and greylisting

[John Stumbles]

David Given wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 January 2006 12:50, Chris Aitken wrote:
> [...]
> 
>>They ignore manual subscribe emails. You need a yahoo id, and must join
>>that way.
> 
> 
> A Yahoo IM account works fine.
> 
> Incidentally, Yahoo Group's servers do evil email address probing in a way 
> that violates the RFC and plays badly with greylisters. If you have one, you 
> may need to whitelist returns.groups.yahoo.com. I submitted a bug report, but 
> I doubt they'll do anything about it.

How do you mean 'email probing'? And what RFC?
And wtf's greylisting (while I'm showing off my hignorance? :-)

> (Can I plug my greylister now?)

[hands on hips] <sigh!> allll-right, I suppose so ...

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John Stumbles