Rusty,

I am not sure that is the case with Yahoo. I use Yahoo for my personal email and for my web hosting so email sent from and to my web domain goes through Yahoo. From the amount of spam I get everyday, I don't think Yahoo is blocking anything. They do have a "bulk" folder that some obvious spam gets routed to, but I still have to go in and delete it.

Feel free to send me email if you want to test it.

Good to see you back on VU

-Dave

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Delay reason: SMTP error from remote mail server after initial connection:
host f.mx.mail.yahoo.com [209.191.88.247]: 421 Message from (209.200.229.120) temporarily deferred - 4.16.50. Please refer to http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/defer/defer-06.html
No action is required on your part. Delivery attempts will continue for some time, and this warning may be repeated at intervals if the message remains undelivered. Eventually the mail delivery software will give up, and when that happens, the message will be returned to you.

Don't know how all that works, but I do know that brides that have a Yahoo or Hotmail address have major problems receiving my contracts in a pdf.

Reply:
Hello,
I'm sorry for the delayed response, the ticket was inadvertently filtered into our spam desk.
We are sorry for this inconvenience.
We have done numerous tests on this issue with many of our servers and we found that this is an intermittent issue that we cannot prevent. The email being sent from our servers is being sent correctly and Yahoo is deferring them at random, with no warning or notification.
We have no control over yahoos incoming smtp server's capabilities or policies.
Yahoo is deciding to defer messages coming from not only our shared servers, but any shared server hosting multiple domains.
We urge you to contact yahoo on this issue as they may provide you with additional support and information on the issue, although this is unlikely.
Please do not re-send your email as this will result in more of a delay and will result in more connections to Yahoos servers and will result in the deferred error messages.
In addition, ensure that any mailing list you have is updated to ensure there are no yahoo users who do not want your email. this will help reduce unwanted smtp connections on yahoos end.
As well, if you have forwarders in place pointing to Yahoo addresses, please remove them as they are forwarding spam to yahoo, causing more unwanted connections.
The following links are VERY helpful in getting answers to the questions you have and explanations on the issue from a wide range of users with different isps and webhosts:
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/abuse/abuse-60.html
http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061024160658AAAh0QY
As well, I googled 'Yahoo temporarily deferred' and found a wealth of information relating to the topic. You may wish to do this as there may be more information out there that you wish to see.
Note that you may want to consider an upgrade to a dedicated server plan or the virtual private server plan, on which your email service would not be affected by any other user, only email coming from your domains would be coming from your server.
The plans can be reviewed at: http://www.lunarpages.com/dedicated-hosting/
and
http://www.lunarpages.com/virtual-private-server/
I understand this isnt a solution or correction to the issue, but I can only offer suggestions advice and information as Yahoo chooses to defer these messages from shared servers at random.
We appreciate your understanding of the matter.
Please don't hesitate to get in touch, should you require further assistance.
Kind Regards,

...Your clients may not realize that if they get their emails online that they need to go through the spam/bulk folders to flag what isn't spam. They are probably assuming that because it is sent to the spam/bulk folders that it is actually spam/bulk and they don't need to look in those folders.

By the way, on one of my email addresses it is called the 'spam' folder and the other email addresses it is called the 'bulk' folder. I am not 100% sure why they do that... ...

This is a huge problem with being on a shared server. From what I understand, it is the IP address of the server that can cause you problems. So if you are on a server with other sites that spam or even send out a large number of emails, the whole server gets blacklisted, not just the offending site. .

Hi, Rusty,

I'm so sorry that I'm just responding to your email. Somehow your message made its way to my spam folder and I just caught it as I was deleting my spam. Unfortunately, I have already booked a videographer, but I do appreciate your response.

Thank you for your time,

Rusty, I just sent an email from my business account to my Yahoo account and it went directly to my spam folder. Yahoo sucks.

Yahoo is for. . .well . . .Yahoos.

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I know this is an older topic but this just started happening for me.
I'm getting returned back all my e-mails to yahoo clients.
The message I get is something like "temporarily deferred" due
to seeming to be spam.

What can I do about this? Has anyone found a way to straighten this
out? I am not sending spam or anything like it. What to do now
as a lot of my clients are on yahoo e-mail?