Author: Odhiambo Washington Date: To: Graeme Fowler CC: exim-user Subject: Re: [exim] Sending Mails to Yahoo!
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Graeme Fowler <graeme@???> wrote: > On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 12:44 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
>> I run several mailing lists, and majority subscribers use
>> @yahoo.whatever addresses.
>
> I too run a few lists with a number of Yahoo subscribers...
>
>> I realize by looking at the exim logs that yahoo servers will only
>> accept upto N number of messages in a parallel delivery and defer the
>> others.
>
> Yes - but N can vary from 0 to rand($BIGNUM) seemingly according to the
> phase of the moon.
Yes, pinning down a value for N was almost impossible for me:-)
> I tried for ages to work out a good way to do it, failed, so just let
> Yahoo get on with it. They never reject but their deferral period seems
> to vary. The subscribers get their mail, albeit sometimes delayed, and I
> get no complaints.
So then, there are many of us. Good enough. Let Yahoo be!
