[afnog] Problems Sending Mail to Yahoo

[Antonio Godinho]

Hi,

The problem is that with one of my big mail servers, the queue just keeps 
getting bigger and bigger and it's all yahoo mail....

Cheers,

AG

On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:58:05 +0800, Mark Tinka wrote
> On Friday 11 April 2008, Phil Regnauld wrote:
> 
> > 	A similar thread has just popped up on NANOG, FYI.  This
> > sseems to be a widespread problem...
> 
> I've had this problem for the past 2 years, initially 
> reporting it on a LUG mailing list back in .ug.
> 
> Since I (like many others) use my own mailer on my laptop, 
> and it's guaranteed anything to Yahoo's mail servers will 
> encounter 421 error 95% of the time, a simple 'exim -qf &' 
> run 3 or 4 times (it cycles through different MX's until it 
> finds one that's actually doing what it's meant to do) 
> eventually hits home.
> 
> I think (I may need corroboration) that Yahoo are also rate 
> limiting bandwidth to some or all of their mail servers. It 
> once took me a day to send an 8MB file over to Yahoo (no, 
> really), when the same file arrived in .ke in less than 5 
> minutes from hitting "send". There are many incidents I've 
> experienced like this.
> 
> Complaints have yielded diddly. I've learned to live with 
> it... if you can't beat them...
> 
> Mark.


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Antonio Godinho
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