AOL offers online tools to help you figure out if you have problems sending to them. Yahoo also has URL's giving information about potential problems. Thing is, all of the info is mostly about spam and how to avoid being discarded. Deferred email is a little different.
Mike On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:19:03 -0400, Warren Melnick wrote: > I don't know about Yahoo, but AOL has an entire department that will look > up your IP, tell you what you are doing wrong and guide you toward doing it > right (the postmaster group). > > Does the defer message contain a URL? Sometimes they do. > > Here is a page on Yahoo that I found by googling: > http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/abuse/abuse-60.html > > It says to contact them if you are unsure of why you are being deferred. I > would try that. > > Good Luck! > > Please report back any results. > > W > > On 10/23/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > AOL is > not actually all that picky. Al they ask is that you make your >>> emails compliant and actually remove the people who click the SPAM >>> button >>> from your list. A slong as your spam complaints stay low they are >>> happy. >>> >> Figured they were picky since I hear about so many issues with them. >> >>> The question is: What are you doing about bouncebacks? If you are not >>> removing them from your mailing list then Yahoo is probably blocking >>> your >>> IP. >>> >> Well, that's the thing, they aren't being bounced, they are being >> deferred. If >> they were bouncing, I could at least specify limits and such but being >> deferred, I don't know what I can do. >> >> I've read all of their requirements and don't see what I can do since I >> don't >> seem to fall under any of their wrongdoing guidelines. >> >> Mike >> >> >>> In my last position, where we did a lot of mailings, I had to write a >>> whole >>> subsystem just to deal with bouncebacks, especially those from AOL, >>> Yahoo >>> and MSN/hotmail. >>> >>> W >>> >>> On 10/23/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:> > no >>> VERP >>> setup on my new qmt box, >>>>> and yes I am able to sent to Yahoo, but after they sent me email >>>>> with 17 >>>>> questions did you get that email? >>>>> >>>> I've done their online application but all it got me was a list of >>>> things >>>> I >>>> should do. However, those things don't seem to apply to my setup since >>>> it's >>>> being deferred, not bounced back. >>>> >>>> I'm seeing that email to hotmail just plain dissapears, no bounces >>>> and no >>>> deliveries either. >>>> >>>> Even AOL test see me as fine and we all know how picky AOL is. I've >>>> got >>>> SPF, >>>> RDNS, everything seems just fine. >>>> >>>> I'm stumped here. >>>> >>>> Mike >>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org > >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: qmailtoaster-list- >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- QmailToaster hosted by: VR Hosted <http://www.vr.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
