When I save a _Yahoo_ email address into my wiki user's "My preferences" on my MediaWiki 1.16.1 at teflchina.org I never get the confirmation email in my Yahoo mail box. Same for my wikigogy.org MediaWiki 1.16.0 on the same server.
Gmail and other email addresses get the confirmation emails from my wiki fine. Only Yahoo email address don't get the confirmation emails.
I saved the same email address (m2_cn at yahoo dot com) in my user preferences on Wikiversity.org and got the confirmation email in my Yahoo mail box fine. But not on my own small MediaWikis.
Yahoo _seems_ to be dropping my wiki's confirmation emails without even bouncing them back to my server. I see some bounced confirmation emails in my server in /home/roger/mail/new/<here> from bogus addresses attempted by spam bots creating users on my wiki. Nothing from Yahoo though.
My email server identifies itself in emails as cpanel68.gzo.com. That is the shared server I am on at Dathorn.com where I host my site.
What can I do so that Yahoo will not drop my wiki's confirmation emails?
Anyone else had this problem?
Thanks, Roger
Yahoo's spam filter is notoriously bad. Not using a Yahoo email address would be a wise first step. Beyond that, there are some things you could try: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=92022 You might not be able to do all of them on shared hosting, unfortunately.
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