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Yahoo's Amazing Disappearing Mail Servers
Golygydd Max writes "A Techworld story reveals that the reason Yahoo email has delivery problems is that the company's mail servers mysteriously close once in a while." From the article: "According to trimMail's Email Battles site, which recently monitored 16 of the company's advertised email hosts 240 times over a half hour period, only 133 of its probes were answered. Many of the servers were closed and unavailable. Overall availability ranged from 25 percent to 75 percent over the admittedly short test period. The average availability was 55 percent, with the worst of the servers available only 7 percent of the time."
As the owner of a hosting company with 2000+ active accounts,
I have alot of experience with yahoo's mail servers. I would have to say that I've never heard someone refer to
themselves as an "Email Admin" say yahoo mail is great. I've seen yahoo fail to send email from our client servers to
yahoo email addresses 25-30% of the time, from servers in NYC, Chicago,
and LA. We get bounces all the time saying that the email server
mx(insert number).yahoo.com isn't accepting connections at this time.
Their servers need a very big kick in the pants..