Re: DMARC and yahoo

[Yoav Nir <[e-mail]>]

On Apr 16, 2014, at 1:13 PM, Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]> wrote:

> 
> This is probably obvious, but had gmail.com done what yahoo.com
> has done, that could I guess have a pretty significant impact on
> the IETF getting stuff done for a while since a lot of folks in
> the last few years seem to have migrated their IETF mail to
> gmail.com as a reasonable way to get around corporate this-and-that
> issues.

I’m one of those folks. It was mostly over spam filtering rejecting posts that it shouldn’t, especially messages from the lists that seemed to be coming from my email address. And rejected messages lead to unsubscribing. I got fed up with re-enabling my subscription every week or so. 

> Maybe people who've done that might want to consider whether its
> such a good plan for so many IETF participants to be dependent on
> just one service now that we have a demonstration that s/none/reject/
> in one TXT RR can have such an impact.

I considered this, so I first tried another provider (neither Yahoo! nor GMail). It turned out to be blocked from posting to @irtf.org mailing lists. I waited a week for this to sort itself out, but that didn’t happen. So I thought I’d complain/open a ticket/something. I searched their site and couldn’t find a support email address. The troubleshooting flowchart ended with a phone number. I spent 20 minutes on hold and then 10 more with the firstest or first-line support (“yes, I’m sure I have an account.  Yes, I’m logged in. Yes, I’m sure the other SMTP server is up”). He gave me the number for the second line of support. In the US. So I gave up, especially since their IMAP didn’t work with my client.

It looks like there’s a lot of providers out there, but there’s not that many who work correctly.  So I ended up with a GMail account like many others.

Yoav