Got a Yahoo mail address? Having problems with it?

[China_cat]

This could be the reason why (fyi sent from my hosting company today):

Three days ago Yahoo begin a process to help stop spam to their servers. They are using a technique called "greylisting". What happens is mail delivered to their servers is automatically denied. The sending mail server then is required to send the mail over and over again immediately until it is delivered.
However, this is causing many problems for most hosting providers out there. The problem is that most mail servers are not setup like this. Most mail servers are setup to send mail once, then if it is rejected attempt delivery again at a reasonable time interval. Our servers are setup to resend every 30 minutes. It is setup like this to keep the load on both our server and the receiving end's load down to a minimum. If our servers had to deliver the same message 10-15 times until it was delivered this would cause some unnecessary load on the server.

This brings up the problem of mail not being able to be delivered to Yahoo.com address's. Currently what is happening is mail is being rejected by Yahoo, and getting stuck in our mail queue, trying to deliver every 30 minutes, when it is rejected again.
So currently some mail being sent to yahoo.com address's from our servers is not reaching yahoo, or is being delayed. We want you to know that we are working on a solution to the problem in a collaboration with over 1,000 other hosting companies. We have also put a formal complaint into yahoo about the problem.

[rug]

1. Well, hurry up. I'm waiting for my Nigerian barrister to reply.

[hippiechick]

2. Dammit I was really hoping to get that penile enlargement ad ...

... I have a date tonight and ... he's ... well, you know .... :silly: