Issues with server sent emails to various Yahoo umbrella domains, which means those domains *may* be banned.

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Due to a long standing misconfiguration of DKIM and SPF records, emails from our servers were not being delivered to Yahoo umbrella domain names, including the following:

Yahoo
AOL
Netscape
Ymail
Rocketmail
Casema
AIM
Frontier
Verizon

They've blacklisted our server. We've corrected the configuration issues. Unfortunately, over 70k of you have yahoo email addresses alone, never mind the affiliates. In order for our server reputation to heal, we have to stop hammering yahoo with thread notifications, digests, and the other assorted emails that come from the forums, because as it is registration & change password emails are also blocked.

Thus, in the next week we will be forcing all users with the above email address providers to change their email address to a different provider. At the end of the week, at 2/18/2022 12PM EST if your profile has one of the above domains and you have not changed it, your account will be put into a locked out state until update your email address. If you do not remember your password to your account and are relying on a saved login, we will assist you as best as we can.

UPDATE: In the last hour or so apparently emails from our servers are being unblocked at least on some domains. We will be monitoring this and hopefully everything will be resolved.

If you are now getting notification emails from our servers, you can do us a solid by posting screenshots of them. Thanks!

Thanks for your patience and support as we continue improving the user experience here.
 
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I have been with Yahoo mail like forever. Do you have a provider you’d recommend ? Cause I’ll open one just to stay here on BF.

Thank you
 
Hi,
David Clayton (bayouace) here. Changed email to gmail, but password on record I thought I had doesn't work now. Please send me my password on record to complete the re-registration. Thanks.
 
bayouace bayouace your email is still listed as yahoo in your profile. Send me a PM
 
Yep, for all my internet life, it's been yahoo, but today it's changed just for here, but I don't much like changing/checking multiple email accounts so I will most likely turn off notifications from here and just check in the forums for any new stuff...

I hope it all sorts out the troubles the forum has been having, maybe 'they' can sort out the yahoo difficulties at some point.

G2
 
The Drizz said:
So you’re going to be refunding subscribers who can’t change email providers correct?
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Why would he do that? He's doing his job to fix the problems, and the ones that are out of his control to fix, he gave a solution that costs nothing but the two minutes it takes to sign up for a free protonmail account.
 
The Drizz said:
So you’re going to be refunding subscribers who can’t change email providers correct?
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No, we're not. We're making every effort to get this situation resolved, however we've done what we can to solve these issues and the email address problems are with Yahoo at this point. You have the ability to change email providers at will; we cannot force yahoo affiliated companies to accept our emails. Since all it takes is for you to switch emails to any of countless providers that *do* work, if you choose not to do so we will not issue a refund.
 
DocJD said:
Can I still login and use the site and just not receive Emails ?
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No, because warnings, announcements and such are still sent.
 
Well this stinks. Been a mostly paying member here since July 2004. I guess that will be over.

I’m not computer literate enough to have two emails. I had to have help setting up the one I have.

I don’t blame BF. It is what it is.
 
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