[GNC] Yahoo blocking GnuCash Email

[Derek Atkins]

Indeed, the queue dropped from over 6000 to 130 (normal size). So it looks 
like the blockage has been fixed, for now.

-derek
Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos.
On September 21, 2019 1:40:16 PM wheelercsg-lists at yahoo.com wrote:

> This Yahoo user has seen your email!
>
> I hadn't received any emails from the list since Sept 13. I started to
> receive them again on Sept 20 at around 5:15 PM Eastern. Hopefully, it's
> not just me and the blockage is fully resolved now.
>
> On 2019-09-20 1:37 p.m., Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 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).
>>
>> Unfortunately, this appears to be a "due to user complaints" blockage,
>> and Yahoo is pretty tight-lipped about why it actually is blocking.
>> This could be due to people flagging gnucash email as spam (which might
>> include the monthly password reminders), or it could be as stupid as
>> people receiving the email but never reading it.  But like I said, Yahoo
>> won't tell me the source of the blockage.
>>
>> I am hoping this will clear up on it's own.  If not, I might need to
>> literally unsubscribe every yahoo user and then request each person to
>> re-subscribe themselves to the list (once email clears up).
>>
>> I realize that no Yahoo users will actually *see* this email, but I'm
>> hoping they will eventually be able to google for gnucash email yahoo
>> problem or something like that and this email will pop up in a couple
>> days in the archives.  Alternately, email will clean up and the queue
>> will get flushed.
>>
>> If anyone has other ideas, please let me know.
>>
>> -derek
>>