Khalil Abbas wrote:
this sucks! I've created a list of 100,000 subscribers .. SMTP_MAX_RCPTS=5, throttle worked perfectly, 800 emails per minute.. the messages should be delivered in a 2 hours time .. now it's 4 hours and 47,000 messages are stuck because hotmail n yahoo are deferring ..
We cannot help you directly. Hotmail and Yahoo think you are a spammer. You have to negotiate with them directly and convince them that you aren't and that their customers want your mail and get them to whitelist your server.
I read somewhere that the biggest list that's using mailman is 500,000 in size.. is it really true or only 50,000 messages are going thru n the rest is delayed or even bounced back..
It is probably true, but it is also probably true that there aren't hundreds of thousands of Hotmail addresses on that list.
I don't know what to do ... I did everything in the book.. our viewers had subscribed to our lists with double opt-in .. mailman is properly configured.. I don't know what yahoo and hotmail really want! I'm so desperate and disappointed..
How are they supposed to know your list is double opt-in if you don't talk to them? See the FAQ at http://wiki.list.org/x/4oA9. You are going to have to contact them and convince them to whitelist you if you can.
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