Yahoo! has a strange delivery problem lately (last week?) for yahoo.gr recepients..
$ host -t mx yahoo.gr yahoo.gr mail is handled by 10 mx1.mail.eu.yahoo.com. yahoo.gr mail is handled by 10 mx2.mail.eu.yahoo.com.
While mx2.mail.eu.yahoo.com accepts mail as expected …
$ telnet mx2.mail.eu.yahoo.com 25 Trying 77.238.177.142... Connected to mx2.mail.eu.yahoo.com (77.238.177.142). Escape character is '^]'. 220 mta101.mail.ird.yahoo.com ESMTP YSmtp service ready helo banana.irc.gr 250 mta101.mail.ird.yahoo.com mail from:<postmaster@irc.gr> 250 sender <postmaster@irc.gr> ok rcpt to:<postmaster@yahoo.gr> 250 recipient <postmaster@yahoo.gr> ok quit 221 mta101.mail.ird.yahoo.com
the other mx, mx1.mail.eu.yahoo.com doesn’t ..
$ telnet mx1.mail.eu.yahoo.com 25 Trying 217.12.11.64... Connected to mx2.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (217.12.11.64). Escape character is '^]'. 220 mta161.mail.ukl.yahoo.com ESMTP YSmtp service ready helo banana.irc.gr 250 mta161.mail.ukl.yahoo.com mail from:<postmaster@irc.gr> 250 sender <postmaster@irc.gr> ok rcpt to:<postmaster@yahoo.gr> 550 relaying denied for <postmaster@yahoo.gr> quit 221 mta161.mail.ukl.yahoo.com Connection closed by foreign host.
Reported this using their Issues Form as a possible misconfiguration on their side, but no answer yet..
Anyone?