Mail arrives in SPAM on Yahoo

[rbtux]

(03-25-2009 08:29 AM)alecksievici Wrote:  * A soft bounce is an e-mail message that gets as far as the recipient's mail server, but is bounced back before it reaches the recipient.
* A hard bounce is an e-mail message that has been returned to you because the recipient's address is invalid.
so i guess this option is default somewhere so when a messege is sent it will be resent in the case of a soft bounce...

these are stupid definitions in my eyes... softbounces in common mail sense are bounces with 4xx (temporarly) error codes, hard bounces the ones with 5xx (permanent) errors...

Soft bounces are sent because you want that the sender tries again. If you do not try again after a soft bounce you will end up on several blacklist for ignoring several smtp rfcs...

But there is no possibility to control these bounces (well you can enable soft_bounce = yes in postfix, this will disable 5xx bounces and sends always 4xx bounces. This is great for testing but leads to lost mails in production use...).

I really hope that yahoo only talks about maillinglists here and nothing else.

Quote:well i'll just tell them 3 for soft bounces and 1 for hard bounces and specify that i have a normal mail server... i hope this ends this charade.

good luck, please keep us informed...