Last week at M3AAWG representatives from AOL, Yahoo, Gmail and Outlook spoke about their anti-spam technologies and what the organizations were looking for in email. This session was question and answers, with the moderator asking the majority of the questions. These answers are paraphrased from my notes or the MAAWG twitter stream from the session. What are your biggest frustrations? AOL: When...
There are a couple problems I’ve been alerted to with the Yahoo FBL today. The first comes from Michael Ellis and is about broken FBL reporting at Yahoo. [In Firefox and Chrome] If you see a email in the junk folder and open it, then click this is not spam; it tosses you out of the email and back into the junk folder list view and the email is still there. It has also reported it as another...
Spamhaus wrote about the return of open relays yesterday. What they’re seeing today matches what I see: there is fairly consistent abuse of open relays to send spam. As spam problems go it’s not as serious as compromised machines or abuse-tolerant ESPs / ISPs/ freemail providers – either in terms of volume or user inbox experience – but it’s definitely part of the...
I’m seeing scattered reports of the SBCGlobal.net MTAs refusing connections. No current information about fixes.
Downdector.com is also showing problems with Yahoo mail as of around 3PM eastern.
This summer Yahoo shook up the email ecosystem by publicly announcing they were recycling usernames. The shakeup wasn’t so much that they were recycling usernames, but that they did it in a way that compromised user information and account security. Any user that had an account tied to a recycled Yahoo account is at risk for having their PII leaked. Folks are still dealing with the fallout...
Yahoo mail turns 16 today, and in celebration Yahoo is giving all their mail users presents.
A new interface, with mail threading.
1 TB of storage.
New actions on hover, including deleting and searching.
Disposable addresses for all.
Pretty photos from flickr.
The screenshots of the new interface look modern and useable. We’ll see how this plays out.
Looking back through the month of September there were a couple things talked about on the blog. Legal cases discussed I wrote quite a bit about the Google wiretapping case. In this potential class action suit, a number of plaintiffs are suing Google for intercepting emails in violation of the federal wiretapping statutes and state wiretapping laws. On September 5th I attended a hearing on...
Techcrunch says Yahoo is announcing a new “this is not me” button for email sent to recovered addresses.
Infoweek interviewed a number of people who acquired new Yahoo addresses during Yahoo’s address recycling and reuse process. It seems that at least for some small percentage of former Yahoo users, there is a major risk of information going to the wrong people. I can gain access to their Pandora account, but I won’t. I can gain access to their Facebook account, but I won’t. I...
According to TechCrunch, Yahoo has started notifying people if their desired username is available. For users who asked for names that aren’t available now, Yahoo has a solution. They will be keeping wishlists for users for the next 3 years. If those usernames are abandoned and expire, Yahoo will notify people by email. Any sender using email as an account key (either for resetting...
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