Alpha1
Well-known member
- Affected version
- 2.3.7
I have about 1k email bounces with the following bounce message after a member replied to an old mega thread:
This specifically pertains to Yahoo and AOL related email providers, as well as an array of smaller ones.
These addresses make up a significant percentage of users of big boards, as back in the day Yahoo, AOL were prime email providers. Any old board will have a mass of these addresses and as Yahoo has at one point disabled all inactive email addresses, there will be a significant number of soft bounces.
I understand that the status code is ambivalent, but email bounce notifications mostly are. XenForo handles bounce notifications strictly by status code, which often leads to incorrect classification. This is a prime example.
This is not a temporary failure, but permanent and therefore should be processed as permanent.
These are incorrectly classified as soft bounces, while these should be hard bounces.
This specifically pertains to Yahoo and AOL related email providers, as well as an array of smaller ones.
These addresses make up a significant percentage of users of big boards, as back in the day Yahoo, AOL were prime email providers. Any old board will have a mass of these addresses and as Yahoo has at one point disabled all inactive email addresses, there will be a significant number of soft bounces.
I understand that the status code is ambivalent, but email bounce notifications mostly are. XenForo handles bounce notifications strictly by status code, which often leads to incorrect classification. This is a prime example.
This is not a temporary failure, but permanent and therefore should be processed as permanent.