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Author: Marc Haber
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Mailman Admins - How much do you pay Yahoo to accept mail tosubscribers?
On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 13:26:31 -0500, John C Klensin <john-ietf@???>
wrote:
>--On Friday, December 30, 2016 19:08 +0300 Odhiambo Washington
><odhiambo@???> wrote:
>
>> Here is my situation on a server where I run a Mailing List
>> using Mailman+Exim4.
>>...
>> .... and still Yahoo is not playing well. It's unacceptable
>> that some times mail to Yahoo can stay in the queue for 4
>> hours when there's so much communication going on in the
>> mailing list.
>>
>> I am sure there are people having larger yahoo subscriber
>> database.... How does one bribe/prod yahoo to be kind to the
>> world? :-)
>
>The consensus is that it is hopeless. There are several views
>of the reasons, with the one I think most credible is that Yahoo
>has become so focused on anti-spam and anti-phishing efforts
>that they simply do not care about anyone else or the users of
>any other mail or mailing list provider.


Yes. E-Mail is dying, especially for those who are not yet ready to
trust their e-mail to one of the big big yummy providers but instead
prefer running their own mail server.

And it's not the spammers who kill it. It's the antispammers.

Greetings
Marc
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