Thanks for your reply. I understand that ultimately it is a Yahoo problem and ultimately something that will never be cured. I was hoping since I only run one small list that there was a "magic" switch that I could flip that would get past Yahoo.
Rick Harris
-----Original Message----- From: Brian Carpenter [mailto:brian@emwd.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 7:13 AM To: 'Rick Harris'; mailman-users@python.org Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] Mailman postings deferred by Yahoo
My Mailman list is very small with < 20 members and only 3 Yahoo addresses and the user complaint thing is bogus. This is a golf list for crying out loud.all of the members want to know what their tee times are for Saturday! All of Yahoo addresses have the same issue, even my own which I added to the list for testing. And I said majority, because 1 in 15 or so messages will miraculously come through.
Does anyone else have any experience with this, and is there something that I can do on my end that would help?
Rick Harris
The user complaint notice is bogus. I monitored a batch that had several yahoo addresses in. When I tried to manually push through the batch, I received a 451 and 421 error message from yahoo. The third yahoo address when through fine. So in just one batch I received 3 different responses from yahoo.
This is not a mailman issue but a yahoo problem. I have also tried getting my servers whitelisted and to sign up for their feedback loop but all to no avail.
If your hosting company is running exim as their mta, ask them to run one of the following commands every 5 minutes are so:
exim -Rff yahoo.com
or
exim -qff
Those are the commands that I use to get my clients' posts pushed through to yahoo accounts in a relatively short time.
Running VERP is not a viable alternative for those of us who host multiple mailing lists due to the resource hit that the server takes.
I think the long term solution is to get your members signed up to your list with another e-mail address. If only yahoo's free email users knew how yahoo is interfering with their mail delivery.
Regards, Brian
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