Comment by gw99 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by gw99 | Hacker News Reader

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For reference Yahoo are absolute shits when it comes to mail delivery. They literally will black hole addresses, domains and IP addresses with no recourse ever. The sending server will get a response code back of roughly "fuck you until you've manually filled in this form at this URL". The form is submitted by any attending mail admin if they even notice the response code, then silently with no confirmation they will either ignore you until the universe dies or suddenly mail will start working. If you fuck the form up, you have to wait 6 months to try again.

They actually stopped me hosting my own email because I couldn't be bothered to deal with this shit any more.

They also have recently become absolute shit at IMAP support, so has AOL. Both of them have set up a COPY Rate limit, basically if you move X amount of messages, (10 on aol, around 50 on yahoo) the move will fail with this message:

  > IMAP< 72 NO [LIMIT] UID COPY Rate limit hit. 
  > \* IMAP error on imap.aol.com: UID COPY error

The mail clients themselves could implement a bandaid fix for these types of servers but still, I see a future where you can only use webmail/apps coming, either pay or don't use email.

I got a call from a recruiter some years ago to take over yahoo mail as a manager. In theory this would have been a huge step in career. I noped out of that hard. Did not want to oversee a declining product.

If every competent recrutee reacted that way, that would explain the present situation.

If the ship is sinking. Perhaps one shouldn’t buy tickets.

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