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Anyone having a problem forwarding a privately owned domain e-mail address to a Yahoo email address or a ATT-Yahoo email address?
Yahoo started bouncing back my forwarding of private domain email address messages on Friday, November 28, 2014. I have had one email account with Yahoo for 24 years and I have never had a known problem with receiving a message that was sent to my email alias or forwarding address that was redirected to my Yahoo email account until now. This is now happening to not just one Yahoo account. It is now happening to three Yahoo accounts that I have used this way for a long time.
Yahoo and AOL Damage Mailing Lists and Email Forwarding
by Adam C. Engst
In part it reads:
In April 2014, Yahoo dropped a bomb on the email world by quietly changing its DMARC policy to “reject,” and AOL followed suit shortly after, though at least with a press release acknowledging the change. This had the effect of causing receiving mail servers to bounce messages that failed SPF and DKIM, generating two classes of problems:
Email Forwarding: ...
Mailing Lists: ...
There’s even more fallout on mailing lists. Depending on how things are configured, if Gmail bounces a received mailing list message sent by a Yahoo user, that bounce will likely go back to the mailing list server and be recorded against the Gmail user, potentially causing that user to be removed from the list. So Yahoo and AOL users can get other list members bounced, purely by posting.
Needless to say, as email and mailing list administrators have figured out what is going on, this change has caused significant consternation.
Why did Yahoo and AOL make such a sweeping change? Speculation is that both had suffered significant security breaches that allowed bad guys to steal user information, including address books ... In short,Yahoo and AOL are cleaning up their mistakes by damaging every mail forwarding service and mailing list on the Internet.
TidBITS: Yahoo and AOL Damage Mailing Lists and Email Forwarding
Yahoo started bouncing back my forwarding of private domain email address messages on Friday, November 28, 2014. I have had one email account with Yahoo for 24 years and I have never had a known problem with receiving a message that was sent to my email alias or forwarding address that was redirected to my Yahoo email account until now. This is now happening to not just one Yahoo account. It is now happening to three Yahoo accounts that I have used this way for a long time.
Yahoo and AOL Damage Mailing Lists and Email Forwarding
by Adam C. Engst
In part it reads:
In April 2014, Yahoo dropped a bomb on the email world by quietly changing its DMARC policy to “reject,” and AOL followed suit shortly after, though at least with a press release acknowledging the change. This had the effect of causing receiving mail servers to bounce messages that failed SPF and DKIM, generating two classes of problems:
Email Forwarding: ...
Mailing Lists: ...
There’s even more fallout on mailing lists. Depending on how things are configured, if Gmail bounces a received mailing list message sent by a Yahoo user, that bounce will likely go back to the mailing list server and be recorded against the Gmail user, potentially causing that user to be removed from the list. So Yahoo and AOL users can get other list members bounced, purely by posting.
Needless to say, as email and mailing list administrators have figured out what is going on, this change has caused significant consternation.
Why did Yahoo and AOL make such a sweeping change? Speculation is that both had suffered significant security breaches that allowed bad guys to steal user information, including address books ... In short,Yahoo and AOL are cleaning up their mistakes by damaging every mail forwarding service and mailing list on the Internet.
TidBITS: Yahoo and AOL Damage Mailing Lists and Email Forwarding
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