At Sun, 30 May 2021 11:07:13 -0400 Jon Baron <ba...@upenn.edu> wrote:

> 
> FWIW, I have 102 yahoo subscribers (86 are yahoo.com, others are around the
> world), and I do not recall seeing ANY yahoo delays at all in the last few
> weeks. I do get delays from hotmail (64 subscribers), and from places in
> China and Finland. One address at a Chinese university takes a day to
> clear, every time, but it is the only address at this particular
> university. Other delays usually clear within an hour or two.
> 
> It is hard to compare details since I use sendmail, and I see the delays in
> the mail queue (which I see by saying "mailq", as root).
> 
> Sendmail seems to try to re-send the mail every hour, after two shorter
> attempts.

Postfix is the same.

> 
> I do set SMTP_MAX_RCPTS = 5, but I think you did that too.

I did have SMTP_MAX_RCPTS at 10, but recently lowered it to 5.

> 
> In sum, I'm not sure that this is something that yahoo does as a matter of
> policy.
> 
> You might check to see if you are on any block lists:
> https://check.spamhaus.org/
> https://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx
> 
> Ignore UCEPROTECT3. Apparently nobody pays any attention to this seriously
> ugly list. Lots of sites use SPAMHAUS (almost as bad as UCEPROTECT3) for
> preliminary screening.

Not on any blacklists, not even UCEPROTECT3.

> 
> Jon
> 
> On 05/30/21 23:18, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> > Robert Heller writes:
> > 
> >  > One thing I have noticed: while all three address domains are
> >  > getting some delay, only Yahoo and AOL addresses ever get delayed
> >  > until the 5-day point, the Verizon.net addresss never get a bounce
> >  > suspension.
> > 
> > Yikes!  That's more evil than I had imagined.  This is to the point
> > where you might want to suggest to your Yahoo and AOL subscribers that
> > they want to get out on their own schedule rather than Verizon's.
> > 
> > I'm serious, but of course you know your subscribers a lot better than
> > I do.
> > 
> > Steve
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