Quoting Peter van Dijk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 06:47:43PM +1100, Brett Randall wrote:
> [snip]
> > I am putting forward a proposal that, to help ourselves, our staff,
> > and the hundreds of thousands of Yahoo Mail patrons, we should contact
> > Yahoo and pester them to get their system working. These failures are
> > all too common on their global system, and have been occurring for
> > months now.
> >
> > Please give me any feedback, flames, comments, etc, and if they are
> > personal, direct them to me personally. If they are useful for others
> > to see (not just for your ego but for general list education about
> > this problem), post them to the list.
>
> I have logfiles with several deferred deliveries, either 'connected to
> blah but connection died' or just plainly 'wasnt able to establish an
> SMTP connection'.
I'm seeing a lot of this junk, lately, as well:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Sorry, I wasn't able to establish an SMTP connection. (#4.4.1)
I'm not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long.
lots o' messages from reply.yahoo.com, which never seems to accept
our SMTP connections, and which is sending email to long-dead accounts.
Typical.
The inet-access list has a regular contributor from Yahoo, by the name
of Derek Balling. I can't find his official yahoo address, but he
posts to Usenet as dredd <at> megacity.org (he has some posts in
alt.sysadmin.recovery, perhaps he will be able to empathize with us
:).
We only handle around 5,000 deliveries, local and remote, per day,
yet there are dozens of queued messages to yahoo.com. Quite annoying.
Aaron
