ai83 Posted November 10, 2017 Report Share Posted November 10, 2017 Hi everyone, Just tried to write an email to Brandon using the contact form on his website and very promptly got a mailer daemon with failed delivery in my inbox. Is this form supposed to work? Or is another method currently in use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainRyan he/him Posted November 10, 2017 Report Share Posted November 10, 2017 Did you try re-sending (filling out the form again)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathon Posted November 10, 2017 Report Share Posted November 10, 2017 I've had the same issue in the past, and I don't know if any alternative method of contact. I eventually just gave up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argent he/him Posted November 10, 2017 Report Share Posted November 10, 2017 You shouldn't need to give up, let's see if we can resolve this. Are you guys using the Contact form, or the Newsletter Signup? I know at least one of them breaks a little bit every time Brandon posts about the newsletter because a million people go sign up at the same time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ai83 Posted November 10, 2017 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2017 Thanks everyone! I used the contact form but I think I found the problem. I re-read the failure delivery and it seemed to complain about my email address, on a ymail domain, which is basically a newer Yahoo domain. This is the error: SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data: 550-5.7.1 Unauthenticated email from ymail.com is not accepted due to domain's 550-5.7.1 DMARC policy. Please contact the administrator of ymail.com domain if 550-5.7.1 this was a legitimate mail. Please visit 550-5.7.1 https://support.google.com/mail/answer/2451690 to learn about the 550 5.7.1 DMARC initiative. v136si480119pgb.236 - gsmtp So I tried to resubmit from my google email address and haven't (yet) got a failure notice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argent he/him Posted November 10, 2017 Report Share Posted November 10, 2017 5 minutes ago, ai83 said: Thanks everyone! I used the contact form but I think I found the problem. I re-read the failure delivery and it seemed to complain about my email address, on a ymail domain, which is basically a newer Yahoo domain. This is the error: SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data: 550-5.7.1 Unauthenticated email from ymail.com is not accepted due to domain's 550-5.7.1 DMARC policy. Please contact the administrator of ymail.com domain if 550-5.7.1 this was a legitimate mail. Please visit 550-5.7.1 https://support.google.com/mail/answer/2451690 to learn about the 550 5.7.1 DMARC initiative. v136si480119pgb.236 - gsmtp So I tried to resubmit from my google email address and haven't (yet) got a failure notice. Yeah, that seems to be the problem. I looked a little bit into it, and it looks like Yahoo intentionally informed the maintainers of the DMARC protocol (which is a way for email clients to determine what a valid email domain looks like) to blacklist a ton of Yahoo domains, likely due the massive password leak they experienced recently. You can read a little more about it here, but I think it would be wise to look into moving to a different email platform... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ai83 Posted November 10, 2017 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2017 1 minute ago, Argent said: Yahoo intentionally informed the maintainers of the DMARC protocol (which is a way for email clients to determine what a valid email domain looks like) to blacklist a ton of Yahoo domains, likely due the massive password leak they experienced recently. You can read a little more about it here, but I think it would be wise to look into moving to a different email platform... Time to give up these jerks for good then! I can't believe they would strike at their users because of their own incompetence. Actually I can believe that but it's still awful. Thanks for sharing that info! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fifth of Daybreak he/him Posted November 13, 2017 Report Share Posted November 13, 2017 On 11/10/2017 at 3:17 PM, ai83 said: Time to give up these jerks for good then! I can't believe they would strike at their users because of their own incompetence. Actually I can believe that but it's still awful. Thanks for sharing that info! When I log in to Yahoo from my computer it gives me a warning message that my email is not as secure as it could be. I always have to wonder if they're telling me that because I'm sending it to a third party app on my phone or because I'm still using Yahoo email services. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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