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TheRayBan
join:2003-10-09
Bakersfield, CA | reply to CCCMTech
Re: [General] Problem sending email to Yahoo! accounts
I have a pacbell.net and a sbcglobal.net accounts and I am getting mail back with the "not allowed" message when sending email to yahoo.com, prodigy.net and pacbell.net addresses.
Hope they fix this soon.
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MHOyet2B
join:2000-09-23
Eureka, CA
| reply to esung
Here's an interesting twist.
My account is SBC-Yahoo, migrated (not merged) from pacbell.net and I use OE. OE is configured to send mail to smtp.pacbell.yahoo.com. I haven't touched any settings for a long time, including user name and password.
Trying to send mail, both the other night and just now, I've gotten an error (didn't write it down, sorry, but I could reproduce it easily enough).
The thing is that I also have my firewall setup to only connect to mail servers at specific IP addresses, notably those associated with smtp.pacbell.yahoo.net, and my attempts to send mail were being blocked because the IP address that the email client was trying connect to was being blocked.
Currently my attempts to send mail are being directed to 217.12.12.194, which translates to smtp1.bt.mail.vip.ukl.yahoo.com !!
I thought that was very strange indeed - so I decided to check here.
In any event, after I allowed 217.12.12.194 through the firewall, my email did get through, and I've just confirmed by sending an email to another address of mine that the email was delivered.
The other night, I tried to send email that was directed to a different IP, 217.12.11.66, and I had to adjust the firewall settings in that case too!
I don't know if this is exactly related to other people's problems, unless they have firewalls that are also interfering with their email clients. (I'm using Kerio, btw.)
Actually, on my machine, it's really NAV that handles emails, but that doesn't make much difference. I had to allow NAV to connect to those respective IP addresses (and the correct ports which were already configured anyway), and once I did that, it solved my problem.
The address from the other night, 217.12.11.66 works out to smtp1.mail.vip.ukl.yahoo.com !!
I hope this doesn't confuse the issue - I only really know a few things about the way networks work, but what I experienced seems to be soomehow related to what others are experiencing here.
I kind of wonder if people set up their email client to contact either of the servers in the UK, if their email would go through, but I'm not suggesting necessarily that they try. It's not what I had to do.
I'm just relieved to see that something hadn't crept into my machine that was hijacking my email, and I thought I'd offer the info I have.
Good luck!
[text was edited by author 2003-10-09 22:16:55] | |
dslmadeasy
Got Ghost??
join:2003-02-01
Milky Way
|  reply to esung
Actually the SBC System Status Page listed EMAIL as the primary outage for the last three days or so, but not all users are affected (myself not affected), backlist is just one of the problems:
Post Date 10/9/2003 09:19 AM
System Component Email
Status Bulletin
Detail Some customers may be unable to access their email through the SBC Yahoo homepage at this time. We are aware of the issue and our E-mail Administration Team is working to resolve this issue as soon as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you and we want to thank you for your patience.
Also in response to the newly announced Microsoft vulnerability, SBC Internet Services has blocked TCP port 135, which has been used by worms and viruses to spread through the Internet. Blocking this port may affect your ability to use Microsoft Outlook to access a Microsoft Exchange server, and Microsoft File and Printer Sharing over the Internet. For further information, please see help.sbcglobal.net. All other network systems are functioning normally.
Start Date: 10/9/2003 09:18 AM
Estimated Repair Date: __________________
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CCCMTech
Premium,VIP,MVM
join:2002-05-17
Pound, VA
| reply to MHOyet2B
MHOyet2B, I've already seen what your talking about. It's Yahoo!'s UK smtp servers. I asked Yahoo! tier 2 and our email admins about it and they were unaware of it happening so I didn't get much of an answer.
If it continues I will bring it back up as it seems to be causing a lot of lag.
Thanks,
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