> -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Scheidell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 7:46 AM > To: John Hardin > Cc: SpamAssassin Users List > Subject: Re: yahoo.com acknowledges no control over third party email > from their mail servers > > > > How the hell can they disown that? The rDNS is from a domain they > control! > > > Didn't disown it, just said it didn't come from a yahoo.com authorized > source, ie: they have open third party relay and just allow random > spammers > to use their servers. > > I get that email response from them 75% of the time, which means > (according > to yahoo.com) that 75% of the spam coming from yahoo.com DKIM signed > servers > is from third partys, not authorized yahoo.com users. >
If you get testy with them and mail them back and forth about it, and include links to the whois/dig output *proving* that they are lying/hiding/whatever, they will eventually "fess up", and a day or so later, you should receive the standard "We have taken appropriate action against the user in question (yadda-yadda)" email. ...Whether or not they actually *do* anything is obviously an unknown, however, I agree that this is just *bad*, so I tend to "call them on it" every time if I can/have the time. IOTW - I'm not exactly on "Elmer's" buddy-list... ;)
