FYI, it turns out that the biggest reason Yahoo was hoding up my emails was that my reverse DNS and the name of my mail server didn't look enough alike. When I changed them to be the same, my backlog quickly cleared.
I also have a backlog with verizon.net, see http://blog.kloppmagic.ca/archives/2005/02/24/verizon-450-requested-mail-action-not-taken-try-later-error/ That post is a bit old, I'm not sure what Verizon is doing right now, but the upshot is that spam emails are getting 450 responses instead of 5XX responses. Verizon also has a spam policy which affects mailing lists: http://www2.verizon.net/policies/spamming.asp To whit: 100 recipient max for single messages, 500/hour. I don't know if that's per from line or per server, probably the latter. Exceeding 500/hour shuts off emails for 24 hours. You can request to go on their whitelist at: http://www2.verizon.net/micro/whitelist/request_form.asp?id=isp Since these issues are common to different mailing list managers, is there a website that contains this kind of info? If not, should we make one and advertise it to other mailing list communities? -- greg ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
