Yahoo's DMARC policy sucks

Shawn Badger shawn at badger.pro
Mon Apr 21 06:38:14 MST 2014


That is odd, I am using gmail and all the messages are going to the folder
the filters labelled them as. I haven't had any messages form PLUG in the
spam folder, although I have noticed that some messages from another list
have some messages going to the spam folder.




On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Derek Trotter <expat.arizonan at gmail.com>wrote:

>  I thought I wasn't having any trouble with messages arriving, but then I
> logged into gmail via the web and checked my spam folder.  All that was in
> there were messages from this list and one other.  I checked them all and
> clicked the not spam button.  It said they were moved to the inbox.  All
> were yahoo addresses except one from Hans.  Strange that all his other
> messages would make it but Google's spam filters would catch one.
>
> Is there a punishment too severe for spammers?  I think not.
>
>  On 04/18/2014 04:00 PM, Mike Schwartz wrote:
>
> > I guess Yahoo is treating PLUG as spam.
>
> Apparently, so is gmail... (and maybe for similar or "analogous" reasons.)
> I use gmail [since circa late 2005] and I found this message in my "Junk
> mail" (or 'spam') folder, there on gmail.
>
> I don't keep up with (reading) PLUG-DISCUSS as often as I used to ... but
> any time I want to, if I really do want to read it, then (no matter) even
> if the robots are starting to categorize messages like this as "junk" mail
> -- (a "false positive", IMHO) -- I could always go read the messages on the
> archive, on the server.
>
> > Obviously this message won't reach the people who are being dropped
> from
> the list, but [...]
>
>  I don't think I've been "dropped from the list" [yet], .. but, thanks
> for the HEADS-UP! :-) !
>
>  Just my 0.02 ... YMMV ...
>
>  PS: Regards to many of my old friends -- (whom I probably have not seen
> / e-mailed, in a long time) --
> ... from
>  --
> Mike Schwartz
> Glendale  AZ
> schwartz at acm.org
>
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 3:46 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>>  I have a Yahoo email account and I got this several hours ago.
>>
>> Your membership in the mailing list PLUG-discuss has been disabled due
>> to excessive bounces The last bounce received from you was dated
>> 12-Apr-2014.  You will not get any more messages from this list until
>> you re-enable your membership.  You will receive 3 more reminders like
>> this before your membership in the list is deleted.
>>
>>  I guess Yahoo is treating PLUG as spam.
>>
>>  The newsletter folks like iContact are having to deal with Yahoo,
>> Gmail, HotMail..... etc bouncing emails if the recipient does not open a
>> certain number of emails they signed up to get.  Must be a profit thing.
>>
>>  I do not read every plug post so maybe that is what happened to me.
>>
>> ------------------------
>> Keith Smith
>>    On Saturday, April 12, 2014 1:56 PM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com>
>> wrote:
>>  Thanks to some changes at yahoo, people that were subscribed to the
>> plug
>> mailing lists and probably wanted to continue to receive PLUG email are
>> dropping off the list like flies due to their messages from the list
>> being rejected.
>>
>> Obviously this message won't reach the people who are being dropped from
>> the list, but if anyone runs into someone that says that haven't been
>> getting new emails, you can tell them that they need to switch providers
>> because yahoo and any other domain that is hosted by yahoo will no
>> longer accept plug emails.
>>
>> I'll try to archive the bounce notifications and if yahoo changes their
>> policy, I'll manually resubscribe anyone that gets dropped.  Until then
>> we have to assume that this change is permanent.
>>
>> Brian Cluff
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