A new problem has appeared over the past few months for all the web hosting companies world wide.
Yahoo email and their filtering - Bulk folder - system !

As many of you know allready, yahoo is filtering emails in order to protect the users from receiving spam.
The problem is that filtering many times has no sense at all !
“Good” Email is blacklisted with no reason, just because their system (Yahoo’s) is not perfect.
It is almost impossible for them to filter only the “bad” emails and for this reason they have placed a button for letting us marking as “Not spam” all the good emails that we receive !
Who checks the bulk folder ? ! This looks like a joke to me.

I recently bought a new server with clean (new) IPs and hosted over there a few domains of mine.
I’m 100% sure that no spam has been sent from this server, but Yahoo did the miracle again!
They blacklisted my server with no reason at all. Just because their system is bad my emails are send in the Bulk folder.

The biggest problem is when hosting companies lose their clients for this reason.
Many clients who have no idea about Yahoo’s policy believe that the hoster is a spamming farm .

I’ve recently see a topic in WHT about a hostgator.com client. He thought that hostgator is hosting spam sites among the other and for that reason he made a public topic in the forum accusing hostgator.
This is not good at all for the hosting industry, Yahoo start ruling the business.
And for a strange reason this stuf started when yahoo has started to offer web hosting services
Strange !

There are 2 ways to get whitelisted in their system.
1. Tell all of your friends and user to mark as “Not spam” your email.
2. Navigate in yahoo’s web site ( http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/ ) and send them the form to exclude your IPs from their black list.

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