[General] Yahoo! spamcop listing

We are receiving several support tickets from users complaining about Yahoo! users being unable to send them emails. Please be aware that Yahoo! currently has several of their IPs listed in Spam Cop, a spam blacklisting service.

Users are reporting bounce back messages that say something like:

Remote host said: 550 Blocked – see http://www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml?98.139.213.138

Please understand there is nothing we can do about this. This is an issue between Yahoo! and Spamcop. Apparently from what we have been able to find, a Yahoo! user exploited their services to send out spam messages and they hit a spam trap email address (a spam trap address is an email address that exists only for the purpose of collecting spam. Any mail that is received at a designated spam trap address is unsolicited).

I would encourage any Yahoo! user that is affected by this to voice their concerns with Yahoo! Finding a contact link for Yahoo! is difficult, so it would seem that twitter might be the best way to contact them concerning this. You can find Yahoo’s twitter account at @YahooCare.

Nobody likes to receive spam and it would appear that Yahoo!’s policies make it far to easy for spammers to use their network to send out unsolicited messages.

Steven

Update: October 3, 2013 1:17PM CDT The latest link of information on this can be found here. Apparently Yahoo! is blaming Spamcop and Spamcop is blaming Yahoo! so it may be a while before this is resolved.