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08-13-2004, 12:42 PM #1Aspiring Evangelist
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Yahoo Junk Filtering
Hey All,
We are currently being blocked by Yahoo and their SPAM Guard software for no apparent reason. All mail sent to Yahoo accounts is being sent to their user's bulk mail folder. Here is what has been done on our end:
- RDNS on all SMTP servers
- SPF records for all domains
- Numerous e-mails/phone calls to Yahoo!
- We are listed in 0 RBL lists and have 100% clean IPs.
Anyone have any results with dealing with these guys? No postmaster contact information at all on their site, and no diagnostic info in the e-mail headers in the Bulk Mail folder.
Thanks,
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08-13-2004, 12:58 PM #2Web Hosting Master
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It seems as if some "canned" emails get sent to the bulk email folder simply for being canned or appearing to be canned. (I don't understand it either its just how it appears to be!) My advice is try sending a message amounting to nothing more than the subject test and message test. That should tell you if it is your message or server.
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08-13-2004, 01:02 PM #3Aspiring Evangelist
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Zach,
Every e-mail sent to Yahoo accounts is put in the Bulk e-mail folder. This is regardless of message content, sender address, etc. They are specifically filtering e-mails from our IP block!
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08-13-2004, 04:54 PM #4Web Hosting Master
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They may not be blocking your IPs but, your bandwidth provider. I'm just thinking out loud here but, it may be worth checking into. Who is your bandwidth provider?
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08-13-2004, 04:57 PM #5Aspiring Evangelist
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Zach,
We have a BGP mix of UUNet, XO and Abovenet. I don't think that is a problem at all as we also have our own IP space.
The customer care people at Yahoo don't have a freakin clue. Won't even transfer me to engineering. Just: Please send an e-mail to our free services support department. Hell, I even offerred to purchase as many business class Yahoo accounts so they could at least transfer me somewhere.
I found their NOC e-mail address and sent a message there. Got an automated ticket response, so hopefully someone will look at it.
This is ridiculous, at least AOL provides detailed information on why you are being blocked and what you can do to prevent it(SPF, whitelist, etc).
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08-14-2004, 06:48 AM #6WHT Addict
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This sometimes happes with us too. Customers says that their mails are being blocked by Yahoo or delievered into Spam / Bulk folder. Do anyone has idea which does this actually happens and how this can be corrected.
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08-14-2004, 11:22 AM #7Aspiring Evangelist
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Do anyone has idea which does this actually happens and how this can be corrected.
I was able to sweet talk my way through the needing an account process, however the lady could only confirm that our messages were being filtered. She had no idea who to talk to, and could not transfer me anywhere. Her hands were tied.
It seems ludicris that a provider with such a large userbase can just block IP space at will, and not publish any way to get your IP space off their blacklists. They must have their own blacklisting system as all of our IPs are not listed on any of the popular blacklists.
Good luck,
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08-14-2004, 05:03 PM #8Web Hosting Master
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We had a similar problem recently when trying to move into a new ip space. To clear it, I and several customers clicked the "not junk" buttons on some messages from our IP space and the problem cleared, apparently as a result.
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08-14-2004, 06:05 PM #9Aspiring Evangelist
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We had a similar problem recently when trying to move into a new ip space. To clear it, I and several customers clicked the "not junk" buttons on some messages from our IP space and the problem cleared, apparently as a result.
Thanks for all the help everyone!
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08-15-2004, 07:52 AM #10Junior Guru Wannabe
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Yahoo's spam filter is incredibly aggressive yet inconsistent. For WebHostingTalk itself, some automatic reply-notification e-mails that are sent to my yahoo email are placed in my regular inbox, and some are placed in my bulk folder. There's just zero logic to it.
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08-17-2004, 10:39 AM #11Aspiring Evangelist
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Ok, after sending around 15 e-mails to Yahoo Customer Care and calling them atleast 10 times I finally got an e-mail today that briefly outlined why mail from our servers might be forwarded to Yahoo bulk mail folders.
In that e-mail they had a link to a form to report the problems we are having:
http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/mail/cgi_bulkmail
Don't know if it works yet, but that link is absolutely nowhere on their site, and all of the customer service reps I spoke with didn't have a clue about it.
Yahoo by far is the most disorganized, nonconnected company I have ever dealt with. We had to purchase a Yahoo business account to even talk to one of their reps...
What a nightmare,
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