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Comment by cmeacham98 | Hacker News Reader

I have 100% compliance with DMARC, DKIM, SPF, reverse DNS records set, a valid SSL cert - and Yahoo still drops half my mail. Works at basically every other major provider: Gmail, AOL, iCloud, Outlook, Yandex, etc.

My conclusion is that Yahoo's spam filters just suck in general.

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And yet, during my annual login to the Yahoo account I keep around out of morbid curiosity, it’s full of spam. It seems like refusing to accept inbound mail would be an improvement in their filtering.

Full disclosure: I work on Yahoo Mail, but I’m not speaking for my employer.

Have you checked out CFL? If users mark sender’s messages as spam, it can impact that sender’s deliverability. The CFL can help avoid these recipients by understanding spam reports.

More best practices for deliverability: https://senders.yahooinc.com/best-practices/

The domain in question is exclusively used for personal email by myself and close friends/family I trust. I would be surprised if a single message ever sent from this domain has been manually marked as spam on Yahoo.

Im guessing you run your own mail server more for fun? It’s the one service I use frequently but I’ve never tried to self host - its always seemed like a lot of pain.

AOL and Yahoo mail have very similar backends given they are owned by same company.

Same here, most of mine are just delayed though.

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