[GNC-dev] Yahoo blocking GnuCash Email

[Derek Atkins]

AFAICT, it only affected yahoo domains (yahoo.com, yahoo.de, etc).
But whereas earlier today there were over 6000 queued emails, now there
are only 4422.  So mail is flowing a bit more.
-derek

On Fri, September 20, 2019 6:59 pm, Tommy Trussell wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 12:38 PM Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
>
>> Starting around September 10, Yahoo appears to have started blocking
>> SMTP (email) originating at code.gnucash.org.  This means that yahoo
>> users have been prevented from receiving any mail (including list mail
>> and bug mail), and worse, they've been blocked from sending mail *to*
>> the list as well (due to sender-verify blocking them because yahoo is
>> blocking us).
>>
>
> Does it affect other domains, too? In 2008 ATT bought Yahoo!, and for
> years
> the Yahoo! people handled email for all the former telecom domains under
> the ATT umbrella. Now (since 2017?) Verizon owns (part of) what used to be
> Yahoo! but the same entity may still handle email for some of the former
> domains.
>
> https://help.returnpath.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002811867-AT-T-Bellsouth-and-SBC-overview
>
>
> Here's a list of domains I found (though several may no longer be active).
>
> @ameritech.net
> @att.net
> @bellsouth.net
> @flash.net
> @nvbell.net
> @pacbell.net
> @prodigy.net
> @sbcglobal.net
> @snet.net
> @swbell.net
> @wans.net
>


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