How to get Yahoo to receive my emails?

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Posted by zymic, 04-07-2008, 03:58 PM
Hello, Like so many others I am having the problem in which Hotmail and Yahoo are rejecting emails being sent from my server. I recently changed servers and this is most likely the reason. While Hotmail hasn't been fixed, they have responded swiftly, usually within 6 hours. I need to contact Yahoo about it but I can't find any information or forms to fill out. Could you please direct me to the correct URL - their site is a complete maze. Thanks
Posted by Hosting_Reserve, 04-07-2008, 04:08 PM
Some good info here if you have not already seen it http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/postmaster/ Also contact info here http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mai...rms_index.html Have you got rDNS setup correctly , this is usually the problem.
Posted by zymic, 04-07-2008, 04:10 PM
Hi, I've seen that link but there is no form or contact info, it just tells you various error codes. Does anyone know the correct page? ######################### Also My domain: zymic.com (*******.zymic.com)rdns seems fine. Valid SPF records too. Thanks
Posted by Ben James, 04-07-2008, 04:11 PM
usually when hotmail/yahoo/aol does not accept emails it because of rDNS or you have been blacklisted by them?
Posted by Hosting_Reserve, 04-07-2008, 04:13 PM
Have a read through the links I posted. Everything you need is there including all the contact forms.
Posted by zymic, 04-07-2008, 04:15 PM
Sorry, didn't see your second link. Last edited by zymic; 04-07-2008 at 04:20 PM.
Posted by Dawson, 04-07-2008, 04:20 PM
We had the same issues ourselves, shot them a quick email and ended up getting "whitelisted" by them.
Posted by zymic, 04-07-2008, 04:23 PM
Hotmail reply: I'm not entirely sure on what to do. Before they told me it was my rdns, which is now fixed and now they send me all of this information, where do I start? I signed up to JMRP but await a response...
Posted by ozona, 04-07-2008, 04:31 PM
This is probably caused by a lack of proper RDNS records
Posted by zymic, 04-07-2008, 04:33 PM
You can check at http://remote.12dt.com/ (its correct?) zymic.com *******.zymic.com Also ... My SPF record is: v=spf1 a ~all is this wrong? Thanks Last edited by zymic; 04-07-2008 at 04:45 PM.
Posted by Hosting_Reserve, 04-07-2008, 04:46 PM
We use "?all" on our SPF records. This works for us.
Posted by HoundOfTheSmith, 04-07-2008, 04:55 PM
all says "this record is meaningless": http://www.openspf.org/SPF_Record_Syntax I'd suggest that, while you're still testing, ~all is a better choice. Don't forget to switch to -all once you're happy with it. Last edited by HoundOfTheSmith; 04-07-2008 at 04:56 PM. Reason: Forgot to enable JavaScript - formatting didn't take
Posted by Hosting_Reserve, 04-07-2008, 04:59 PM
Not exactly "meaningless" just used as a guide. We never really changed things once we got our newsletters through to AOL and Microsoft users. It works for us, thats all I can say...
Posted by zymic, 04-07-2008, 05:01 PM
I've been thinking if its best to "offload our mail()" command to another server during the wait. We use php to send the activation email, and we could code something which sends the form data to a remote server, which then sends out the activation email. Do you think this would work?
Posted by getweb, 04-08-2008, 11:02 PM
I am so boned. I've been trying to resolve Yahoo mail issues for a few weeks, during which I've implemented SPF and DomainKeys in addition to reverse DNS and the usual suspects which have been active on the server for almost six months. The last couple days things looked to finally be moving smoothly, and then today I have been completely shut off for the last 12 hours. I already have over 150 messages waiting for Yahoo. I know many of them are personal messages; it makes me sick to think about. According to my logs there's some decent forum notification traffic to Yahoo but that's all - and mostly to the same ten people, so it's not the result of a dictionary attack of some kind. I filled out the Feedback Loop form once a few weeks ago, and got a case number and email after a few days, but no response after I replied with their requested information. I tried again last week with no response at all. Lame. Really lame. I remember going through the same "Feedback Loop" process with AOL every time I brought up a new mail server and they always had it resolved in hours. I actually miss that.
Posted by rumahweb, 04-09-2008, 12:51 AM
I think Yahoo has become the most stupid free mail provider ever. I noticed that during February - March they changed their mail receiving policy. 4 of ten of my servers got defered everytime its send mails to Yahoo. But you know something, I got some kind of mail attack from Yahoo Groups mail servers everytime I activate "Sender verify callout" on my servers. Those Yahoo Groups servers keep trying to connect to my server until we run out of socket. What I'm trying to say is that they always demand for proper mail sending policy from us, but they act brutally when they send mail to ours.

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