Hello,
This is a fake IP to make our IP confidential. When checking our domain in
"dnsreport.com", I realized that there is no spf record for the same. I will
add an spf record for our domain and update you once i got the result.
Thanks,
sal
Graeme Fowler wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 05:42 -0800, sal983 wrote:
>> When sending mails from our exim mail server to yahoo getting the
>> following
>> error message and sometimes yahoo allowing the mails to deliver to "spam"
>> folder.
>>
>> "2007-11-27 17:00:07 1Ix7Wm-0004RS-DZ == testmail@??? R=external
>> T=remote_smtp defer (0): SMTP error from remote mail server after initial
>> connection: host a.mx.mail.yahoo.com [209.191.118.103]: 421 Message from
>> (87.87.87.87) temporarily deferred - 4.16.50. Please refer to
>> http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/defer/defer-06.html"
>
> Did you access the URL given? It's quite useful.
>
> Yahoo operate a deferral system similar, but not the same as, basic
> greylisting but they operate theirs on many different criteria. In my
> experience *all* messages to yahoo.* domains get delayed for a period,
> some short and some long but the one characteristic similarity is the
> delay affects them all.
>
>> where "87.87.87.87" is our mail server IP.
>
> Is it? Looks like a Sky/Easynet broadband address to me. If it really is
> your address, that probably explains why Yahoo are delaying your mail or
> delivering it to their users' Spam folders. You should ideally be using
> a non-domestic smarthost.
>
> Of course, if you've replaced your real IP with a mde-up one, all the
> above advice could be completely wrong. This is why we ask that you
> don't obfuscate errors and/or log entries.
>
> Graeme
>
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