On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 6:46 PM, Greg Woods <wo...@ucar.edu> wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 10:56 PM, Tim <ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au> wrote: >>> Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com>: >>>> >>>> FYI, gmail puts your emails in spam for the following reason: Why is >>>> this message in Spam? It has a from address in yahoo.com.au but has >>>> failed yahoo.com.au's required tests for authentication. >> >> This is, unfortunately, a well-known issue between Google and Yahoo. >> We're on Google at work so I get to deal with this on a semi-regular >> basis. >> >> There is something called DMARC (you can Google for that term, the >> first few hits are directly relevant). Without going into all the >> details, suffice it to say that Google believes Yahoo has DMARC in >> place, but they're doing it wrong. This results in mail from Yahoo >> coming from servers that Google thinks it shouldn't be coming from, so >> it gets rejected, flagged as spam, etc. >> >> I haven't researched it thoroughly enough to figure out who's right >> and who's wrong here, but the bottom line is that it is hard to >> receive mail from Yahoo users on Gmail. > > You must be on the right track, but here must be more to it than this. > > Yahoo mail that's sent directly to my address is OK but Yahoo mail > that's sent via a mailing list is flagged as spam.
Short version as I understand it: yahoo's addition of dmarc=fail is a request to consider any email not sent by a yahoo mail server as spam, and Google is one of the few to honor that request. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
