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MFL - Yahoo email notification problems (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter yellowdog
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X3, This crap is pissing me off. I'm getting e-mails today from Friday the 14th.
gorf
Footballguy
nope, not the issue. not sure what it is, but this isn't it -- there's nothing in the spam folders, either.From what I've read Yahoo has gotten really crazy with their spam filters and MFL emails are getting blocked.Another reason to go with gmail.
Cleat Spike
Footballguy
Getting them a day late here too. My own team's waiver e-mail (from dropping a player) wound up in my Spam too. My team's daily player update e-mail each morning comes in late too.
bonscott
Footballguy
Yahoo is blocking the email at *their* end on the servers. Basically MFL is on their "blacklist". It's never even getting to your spam folder let alone your mailbox. Yahoo has done this for years and is why many people have left their email service. They want to coddle people that can't take care of their own spam.nope, not the issue. not sure what it is, but this isn't it -- there's nothing in the spam folders, either.From what I've read Yahoo has gotten really crazy with their spam filters and MFL emails are getting blocked.Another reason to go with gmail.
KellysHeroes
Footballguy
x1000X3, This crap is pissing me off. I'm getting e-mails today from Friday the 14th.
shamrock84
Footballguy
Yahoo is blocking the email at *their* end on the servers. Basically MFL is on their "blacklist". It's never even getting to your spam folder let alone your mailbox. Yahoo has done this for years and is why many people have left their email service. They want to coddle people that can't take care of their own spam.nope, not the issue. not sure what it is, but this isn't it -- there's nothing in the spam folders, either.From what I've read Yahoo has gotten really crazy with their spam filters and MFL emails are getting blocked.Another reason to go with gmail.
I'm getting the emails just a day or two late at times. They are not being blocked and it's inconsistent. Sometimes they come through right away. FWIW this just started happening recently. Never had this problem with Yahoo until a month or so ago.
bonscott
Footballguy
When it's delayed it's getting "stuck" on their spam filtering servers.Yahoo has had this problem (along with AOL and Hotmail) for years. I remember back maybe 3 or so years ago this happened in the middle of the season and it was a huge firestorm. Yahoo and AOL were blocking MFL (and other "fantasy" football emails from other services) as spam since they came in all the time. MFL had a heck of a time getting Yahoo and AOL to not consider MFL spam. Gmail just plain does not have this issue. They assume you actually want your email. Imagine that!shamrock84 said:Yahoo is blocking the email at *their* end on the servers. Basically MFL is on their "blacklist". It's never even getting to your spam folder let alone your mailbox. Yahoo has done this for years and is why many people have left their email service. They want to coddle people that can't take care of their own spam.nope, not the issue. not sure what it is, but this isn't it -- there's nothing in the spam folders, either.From what I've read Yahoo has gotten really crazy with their spam filters and MFL emails are getting blocked.Another reason to go with gmail.
I'm getting the emails just a day or two late at times. They are not being blocked and it's inconsistent. Sometimes they come through right away. FWIW this just started happening recently. Never had this problem with Yahoo until a month or so ago.
been happening to me a lot lately. never had this problem before in the past.
When it's delayed it's getting "stuck" on their spam filtering servers.Yahoo has had this problem (along with AOL and Hotmail) for years. I remember back maybe 3 or so years ago this happened in the middle of the season and it was a huge firestorm. Yahoo and AOL were blocking MFL (and other "fantasy" football emails from other services) as spam since they came in all the time. MFL had a heck of a time getting Yahoo and AOL to not consider MFL spam. Gmail just plain does not have this issue. They assume you actually want your email. Imagine that!shamrock84 said:Yahoo is blocking the email at *their* end on the servers. Basically MFL is on their "blacklist". It's never even getting to your spam folder let alone your mailbox. Yahoo has done this for years and is why many people have left their email service. They want to coddle people that can't take care of their own spam.nope, not the issue. not sure what it is, but this isn't it -- there's nothing in the spam folders, either.From what I've read Yahoo has gotten really crazy with their spam filters and MFL emails are getting blocked.Another reason to go with gmail.I'm getting the emails just a day or two late at times. They are not being blocked and it's inconsistent. Sometimes they come through right away. FWIW this just started happening recently. Never had this problem with Yahoo until a month or so ago.
bonscott speaks the truth. The multi-day delays are caused by Yahoo's mail servers refusing to accept email from the MFL mail servers. They'll listen to the entire connect attempt, then respond with a 421 or 451 "Message Temporarily Deferred" reply. The sending server can only toss the message back in its delivery queue and try again a few hours later. If the sender is pushing out a huge volume of emails, this can happen 10+ times before the message is actually accepted for delivery by Yahoo's mail servers. If a message is deferred enough times in a row, the mail server will give up and mark the message undeliverable.Gmail is by far the best mailhost out there at sifting out spam and delivering the messages you want to receive, IMO. None of the others are anywhere close.
