Re: anybody seeing mail problems sending to yahoo.com? (and a yahoo email contact?)

[Royce Williams <royce () techsolvency com>]

Miles, I'm seeing it here too -- same conditions (small email list), same
symptom.

But interestingly, I'm not getting that message back from Yahoo's MXes;
just a very high volume of of 'closed connection in response to end of
data' and the usual occasional minor smattering of 'temporarily deferred
due to user complaints'.

Royce Williams


On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 6:05 AM, Miles Fidelman
<mfidelman () meetinghouse net>wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> I run a few small email lists that have some yahoo users on them - and I
> just started getting complaints about receiving multiple copies of messages.
>
> In looking into it, I've found 1000s of log entries along the following
> lines, all from the past 5 days or so:
>
> Jan  4 09:23:51 server1 postfix/smtp[1462]: 3BA39CC094: lost connection
> with mta7.am0.yahoodns.net[98.136.216.26] while sending end of data --
> message may be sent more than once
>
> It's not one of their standard anti-spam errors, and mail is arriving
> (multiple copies no less) - so it doesn't look like this is intentional
> blocking.
>
> So... I'm wondering if  anybody else is seeing this, and if anybody has a
> postmaster contact at yahoo (postmaster () yahoo com, of course,
> auto-replies with a pointer to a useless web form).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Miles Fidelman
>
> --
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