Thus spake Mark Jeftovic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [09/10/03 16:57]: > Today our email forwarders started getting this from yahoo.com > mail handlers: > > 553 Mail from 216.220.40.247 not allowed - VS99-IP1 deferred - see > help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/defer/defer-02.html (#5.7.1) > Connection closed by foreign host.
Woah. Deja vu. We got exactly the same thing, starting last night. We've worked around it by relaying mail to yahoo.com/yahoo.ca through a different mail server. > Which when you go look at that page basically tells you you're probably > an open relay (which we're not), etc. Ditto. The page also has some links to removal requests, which I've already filled out. And submitted a followup asking /why/ we were listed. This was about seven hours ago now, and I haven't even gotten an autoresponse from them yet, for this note. > Can any mail admins at Yahoo contact me offlist, or post what the > restrictions are or at what levels this will kick in? Apparently, they blacklist you at whim -- our mail server is confirmed un-open-relay by ordb.org, and by rlytest. And we can be blacklisted for up to 60 days at their discretion, according to the page above. I have also sent a message to postmaster@, who was most unhelpful. Basically redirected me to the 'I need help with Yahoo! mail' web page. I /was/ going to wait until tomorrow to follow up on NANOG, but if a Yahoo! admin is already looking at this for easydns.com, care to drop me a line for the same reasons? Thanks. - Damian
