Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 18:47:23 -0400
From: Barry Newton <bnewton at ashcomp.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Yahoo problem
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

I got it, but Thunderbird filtered it into a junk folder.  That's
probably due to my local Bayesian training.

Barry

On 4/27/2014 6:22 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
> In response to suggestions from Mike Bartman and Simcha Kuritzky, I'm
> turning all yahoo.com addresses into dmarc-yahoo.com addresses.  Since
> Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail, etc., will think it's from dmarc-yahoo.com, which
> doesn't have a DMARC record (since it doesn't exist), they won't
> reject the email.
>
> Posts and replies to the list will work as usual.  The only thing that
> won't work is a reply directly to a dmarc-yahoo.com address.  Just
> remember turn it back into a yahoo.com address and it will work.
>
> It's my hope that Yahoo will back down.  Experts are telling them that
> they're making a big mistake, and are recommending that Yahoo users
> move to a different ISP.  I'm hoping that Yahoo users who do cancel
> their accounts tell Yahoo why they are doing so.  If and when they
> back down, I'll remove this fix.
>
> About an hour ago I posted a short test message to this list claiming
> to be from Yahoo.  If anyone didn't get it, please tell me.  Thanks.
>