Yahoo FBL Down
We’re seeing multiple reports that the Yahoo feedback loop stopped working some time in the past couple of days. If you’re not seeing reports, it’s not just you.
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FBL updates
- laura
- Nov 12, 2008
Roadrunner shifted the release date for their new FBL to December 14th.
Despite rumors, the Yahoo FBL is not actually accepting new participants.
Yahoo China Email Services Shut Down
- josh
- Jan 21, 2015
Via mailing lists and Al Iverson’s Spamresource blog, Yahoo China domains (yahoo.com.cn and yahoo.cn) are no longer accepting email. Yahoo announced in April of 2013 they are shutting down their email services in August of the same year and advises users to create new accounts with Alibana. While the domains still have valid MX records, they are no longer accepting mail. There is no direct mapping from Yahoo China addresses to Alimail (Alibana’s email service).
When attempting to send emails to these two domains, the reject will be a “550 relaying denied” message. Now would be a good time to update your lists and remove any yahoo.com.cn and yahoo.cn addresses.
Fun with new mailservers
- steve
- Jul 29, 2014
I’m building a new set of mailservers for wordtothewise.com – our existing mailserver was “I’ll repurpose this test box for a week” about four years ago, so it’s long past time.
I tested our new smarthost by sending a test mail to gmail. This is the very first email this IP address has sent in at least three or four years, possibly forever: