[GNC] Stopped receiving emails from GnuCash user list

[Robert Heller]

The MTA at gnucash.org will keep the queue alive for some number of days (I 
think most MTA keep the queue for about 4-5 days), and then "give up" and 
discard the messages.  It is also possible that the messages can be manually 
discarded.  It is also possible to configure a different retention period.

At Fri, 27 Jun 2025 21:20:24 -0700 Bruce Olson <life0s_50 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> On 6/27/25 20:06, Robert Heller wrote:
> > I suspect a transient issue with Yahoo's servers.  Back when I was hosting
> > Mailman 2 lists on my server, some of the people on one of my lists were on
> > Yahoo's servers (@yahoo.com, @aol.com, @netscape.net, @verison.ne, maybe a few
> > other domains).  From time to time, all of these address would get blocked
> > (messages temporally delayed).  Yahoo's servers would refuse e-mail list
> > messages for a while (hours, days, maybe for a week), and then the messages
> > would start being accepted and after a few hours, days, maybe a week, the
> > pending queue would be flushed.  And then at some future time it would happen
> > again.  Not really much that I could do.  Except suggest that people switch to
> > another E-Mail provider...
> >
> > Note: Yahoo has gone rather downhill for the past while.  Yahoo groups went
> > totally south, causing a mass exidus to groups.io.  Verizon bought Yahoo and
> > then sold Yahoo's E-Mail service to a holding company.  (We we have heard on
> > this group all about what has happened to Yahoo's securities service...)
> >
> >
> Having worked a few queues in my time, it makes me wonder how they 
> resolve errors.  Do they actually resolve the error(s) and re-queue the 
> messages or do they simply delete the message(s) in error to allow the 
> messages to flow again?  I lost all the emails from the time they 
> stopped until they started again.  I suspect the latter.
> 
> I've had my yahoo email account since 2013 and this the first time I had 
> this issue that I am aware of.  I do recall suspecting I missed 1 or 2 
> random messages in the past.  If it happens again I will seriously 
> consider switching to another email provider.
> 
> 
> 

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