Does yahoo small business email allow ONLY ME to set up my own spam filtering, or does it automatically block some emails coming from various spam blacklists? I am an adult, I can filter my own email. My current email host provider (web.com) uses email filters I cannot control and legitimate business email is blocked. Thank you.
If Yahoo Small Business Email does block some domains listed on spam blacklists, which spam blacklists do they officially use to block? I have had trouble receiving mail through my domain hosted on web.com (due to spamlist blocking) but they have come through just fine on my personal yahoo account. Is Yahoo more aggressive in blocking when they host a domain through their small business service? I thought gmail hosting my business account would be good, too, but I have seen many complaints of mail not being received on their user forums, attributed to the sender being on a spam blacklist.
When you control the computers, you control the black list.
When you don’t pay the bill, someone else is running the black list.
AOL, MSN, Yahoo, Comcast, Adelphia, and a few others used to be called the BIG 8 when it came to email. They all have a similar policy used to help “PROTECT” their users, and it has been upheld by a judge. Basically, they have the right to “PROTECT” their infrastructure any way they see fit. It is THEIRS.
Gmail is the closest free thing in my experience to an open email system.
Some of the rules for the big 8, and are as follows:
Any server without a PTR record (aka return ip to domain name record in the domain name registry records)
To a lesser extent a SPF record (Sender Policy Framework another check done via DNS domain name and email servers) they will automatically reject it.
There are other rules, like open relay, mass amounts of mail, and others.
BOTTOM LINE, THEY DECIDE WHO WHEN AND WHY.
From this site.
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/smallbusiness/bizmail/spam/spam-45.html
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/postmaster/
For aol.
http://postmaster.aol.com/
For MSN.
http://postmaster.msn.com/
The Servers we run for Broomfield-Designers.com continually fight to be in compliance with these big 8, even though we pay the bills.
IMHO I suggest you find someone who will host you on a machine that plays by the rules, so it can deliver your email to the masses. If they have that kind of control, you can request your black list too.
We only host the sites we build at Broomfield-Designers.com for this reason, and many like it.
If you need similar commercial grade hosting from providers who do it right, may I suggest musso.com or rackspace.com. Neither is cheap, but you get what you pay for.
You should be the only one authorized to AUTOMATICALLY block anyone, however, if a site is known to carry viruses and the like, then I would say Yahoo has the right to block that since it could also affect others and not only you.