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Yahoo blocking boards links

MOH · 2017-01-09 18:58:30

Not sure if it's something Yahoo have changed, or for some reason Boards is suddenly being flagged, but just tried to mail someone @yahoo.com a link to a BA thread and it was rejected. The rejection included this link as an explanation. Thought initially it might have been because the message body contained just the link…

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09-01-2017 7:58pm

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MOH

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Not sure if it's something Yahoo have changed, or for some reason Boards is suddenly being flagged, but just tried to mail someone @yahoo.com a link to a BA thread and it was rejected. The rejection included this link as an explanation.

Thought initially it might have been because the message body contained just the link and nothing else so added some explanatory text and tried it again but got the same error.

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#2 10-01-2017 10:58am
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We're looking into why this is the case. Quite strange...

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#3 17-01-2017 4:42pm
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Just in case it helps narrow down the issue, same thing has just happened with another email to the same address, with three boards links included. Nothing I can see about them, seems to just be an issue with links to boards in general.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057373005
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055229602
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055151306

Text of the bounce message wrote:

This is the mail delivery agent at Symantec Email Security.cloud.

I was unable to deliver your message to the following addresses:

redacted@yahoo.com

Reason: 554 Message not allowed - [PH01] Email not accepted for policy reasons. Please visit https://help.yahoo.com/kb/postmaster/SLN5067.html [120]

The message subject was: FW: Fwd:
The message date was: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 14:48:55 +0000 The message identifier was: DE/D0-12625-EDE2E785 The message reference was: server-7.tower-38.messagelabs.com!1484664541!75004800!1

Please do not reply to this email as it is sent from an unattended mailbox.
Contact your email administrator if you need more information, or instructions for resolving this issue.

I successfully sent it to my personal gmail account, so I don't think it's an outgoing problem at my work email end.
However, I then forwarded it from gmail to the original destination and it got through.
I then tried sending a non-boards link from my work email to the yahoo address and that got through.

So it seems to be some combination of my email domain and the links that's triggering it. If I can help with any more detail PM me.

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#4 19-01-2017 12:17pm
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To follow up on this, there doesn't seem to be much we can do on our end. However I was having the same issue as yourself so posted on Yahoo's Support Message Board. Some maintenance was done on my account and I can send links again.

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