Yahoo Groups - lack of mail

Elliott Cowton said the following on 01/03/2007 17:39:

Now you mention it, I don't seem to have had much on any of my Yahoo groups just lately.

Yes, but one of those has not arrived when it should either...

Elliott

There are a couple of new viruses/worms/etc out there.

"Elliott Cowton" wrote

Yahoo! have had an email server problem affecting some groups throughout today.

John.

Check for your emails being disabled because your ISP has bounced one recently.

Yahoo isn't very good at redriving them, gives up and disables them until you reset it.

In message , Christopher A. Lee writes

I've had to reset mine every other day for the past few weeks, with an "Error 550, message body rejected". It's starting to annoy a bit...

I once had a site which was part of a UK webring. It worked fine until the webring became a part of Yahoo Groups. I've had nothing to with them since.

(kim)

"John Turner" wrote

The Yahoo email servers are now working again, but there is a huge backlog of emails which may take a day or two to clear.

John.

"Christopher A.Lee" wrote

Not a problem for me. The ISP my groups forward the mail to is yahoo.co.uk and I then POP3 download them to Outlook. The advantage is that despite having ntHell as an ISP I can also SMTP send mail because the send port on the yahoo server is not the usual one that most ISPs will block.

Works like a dream and since I set up the account in October I have had not a single bounce vs. sometimes 100s a week before...

Elliott

John Turner said the following on 02/03/2007 10:04:

I was under the impression that they wouldn't be clearing the backlog. I saw an announcement somewhere to this effect...

...found it:-

"Unfortunately, while messages posted to affected groups during this time were saved to group archives, the messages cannot now be delivered via email."

Now that sounds like a neat trick. I've had to drop back to my BT account to get emails through yahoo groups. Problem with bouncing that started at xmas, but forwarding via a free yahoo account sounds better :)

Nice of them to broadcast this.

"Paul Boyd" wrote

Make sense I suppose, but they were certainly suggesting otherwise last night.

John.

"Lester Caine" wrote

You need to sign up for a new yahoo account/identity and make sure it is on the UK servers (email address ending in yahoo.co.uk. Once you have the account, in the options you will find instructions on how to download POP3 mail.

Elliott

In message , Elliott Cowton writes

Ah, OK! That works, thanks :-)