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What’s Up With Yahoo Mail Delivery?
I am a happy Yahoo Mail user. I’ve been a Yahoo Mail user since the early days. I also know that I am a bad tech blogger and early adopter because I don’t use (and make love to) Gmail. I regularly get noogies at tech conferences when others learn about my choice.
Lately I’ve noticed issues with email delivery to my Yahoo Mail account. Sometimes emails are delivered on time, but many are delivered late. And the delayed delivery seems to vary – I can’t put my finger on it. Even the exact same email can be delivered in real-time on one test but another test takes half a day to arrive. At first I thought it was only emails coming from Rackspace servers as they noted there was an issue a couple of weeks ago with mail delivery. But this past week, the delayed email delivery seems to be coming from all sides.
One interesting note – mail that gets forwarded from my gMail account always seems to come immediately. The same message sent directly to my Yahoo Mail account sometimes is delayed.
Yesterday it caused an issue as newer emails showed up before the previous emails which made for a very odd exchange with a client.
Do you use Yahoo Mail? If so, have you noticed any delivery delays over the past few weeks?
Yahoo’s intrusive marketing bots are getting backlogged reading your e-mails to try and sell you stuff. Google does this too, but at least their ad spy programs run faster. Try opting out. That way, maybe they’ll just give your mail directly to you, instead of holding it until their marketing machine finds the right key words that match their ad clients. Are you actually paying for that kind of junk service from Yahoo, who should be giving YOU something for your stolen information instead?
I host hundreds of websites and I can tell you that we are constantly hit with the problem of Yahoo “deferring messages”.
Out of the blue, Yahoo will “defer” a message, maybe because it thinks it’s spam for hours, usually days. If people are mailing you from shared hosts, their messages are probably sitting in a qmail queue somewhere, deferred, and waiting to get through.
We’ve done everything we were supposed to. Reverse DNS PTR records, SPF records, etc. Nothing really seems to matter, we continually deal with this.
I have NOT had this problem with Gmail ever, and a similar problem with Hotmail years ago, but no problems since.
Yahoo! Mail has the worse service – especially for paid customers. They are the only company that offers less stable service if you pay. Anyway, with their Mail App Platform, I’m sure they didn’t improve reliability by a jot and most probably it’s the opposite. As a paid customer for many years, I’ve tried to talk to their reps and they were clueless about most of the issues I needed help with. I remember when they upgraded their system and by default disabled the feature to keep sent mail. We all wondered where our sent mail during the last few days went until we uncovered the culprit, which even their customer service wasn’t aware of. Anyway, nothing beats Gmail so far.
I had a similar issue. I emailed their tech support a few times and they resolved it. (I use Yahoo Plus.)
Same issue here and I am a Plus subscriber. Been using Yahoo Mail for almost 15 years but not for much longer though, multiple attempts to communicate my problem to support have proven frustrating, they fail to understand the problem and/or deny there is one.
I use email more than I do the phone, I liked the old Yahoo website that gave you news as well. Now I am getting Google and Yahoo combined, no new and a pain to get to my mail. I am not a computer person per say, but I do use Yahoo a good bit to find things.
Can some tell me how to get this thing back to normal.
I have been using Ymail.com (Yahoo Mail Plus) for a while and have not had any delivery issues until recently (about December 2009). When I have the sender copy both my ymail and gmail accounts the gmail account receives the email 100% of the time while ymail delivers only some of the email.
I have submitted these issues to Yahoo but it has still not been resolved. Something is going on at Yahoo.