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I know things are tough for Yahoo these days, but is marking competitors’ email as Spam the way to go? I have a Gmail account that forwards a copy of my mail to my Yahoo email account. It’s my cheap psuedo-redundancy setup. Normally this works fine, but it seems that, starting today, I’m getting mails sent from Facebook bounced back from Yahoo under the auspices of a email abuse.
Technical details of permanent failure:

PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 16): 554 Message not allowed - UP Email not accepted for policy reasons. Please visit http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/defer/defer-04.html[120]

Utterly useless. So I google search for the error text and come up with this gem:

554 Message type not allowed. UP Email not accepted for policy reasons

If you receive an SMTP error or bounce message containing the text string

UP Email not accepted for policy reasons. Please visit http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/defer/defer-04.html

there is something about the message contents that Yahoo! Mail will not accept for policy reasons. For instance, it is against Yahoo! Mail’s policy to send phishing/fraud attempts or viruses. If you feel you have received this error for a message that should be accepted, we encourage you to provide us with detailed information about the rejected message.

Nice to see that it’s now policy to reject email from your competitors. I had a similar problem last year where none of my G-Mail would get through to Lauri’s Yahoo mail. But that seemed to have been fixed. Let’s hope this is just a blip on the radar.

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