Yahoo temporary errors are considered as Bounces?

smooth · Joined: 29 Apr 2008 Posts: 3

Yahoo's temporary "Resource not available" error & "deferred" errors are counted as "Soft Bounces" by this program. It shows bounce reason as "Unknown address!"

host in32.mxauth.yahoo.com[202.86.5.24] said: 451
Resources temporarily not available - Please try again later [#4.16.5]. (in
reply to end of DATA command)

host c.mx.mail.yahoo.com[216.39.53.3] said: 421
Message temporarily deferred - 4.16.51. Please refer to
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/defer/defer-06.html (in reply to end of
DATA command)

I tried removing all rules & by setting my own rules involving message body. But the program continues to take the above cases as BOUNCEs.. Any advice?

stanbusk · Site Admin Joined: 28 Dec 2005 Posts: 2372

Yes they are soft bounces. Why do you you think they are not?

smooth · Joined: 29 Apr 2008 Posts: 3

Ok, but how do I stop those from being shown as bounces while processing?

stanbusk · Site Admin Joined: 28 Dec 2005 Posts: 2372

They are bounces so they are added to the list. They are added as soft bounces, that is, warnings. Just ignore them.

smooth · Joined: 29 Apr 2008 Posts: 3

thanks for the reply.

I usually select all the true bounces (some mail providers even return a soft bounce for "Mail-box" not available.) & remove them from my list.

Currently, my soft bounce list has both Deferred emails (which I dont wanna lose) and Mailbox problem errors (which I want to remove).

Ideally, I just want the application to process the emails which have the certain texts I specify in the body.

I just want the application to read mails with the texts as shown in the image below. But it continues to read mails with "deferred". Am I doing anything wrong?

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/9394/bouncehr3.jpg

stanbusk · Site Admin Joined: 28 Dec 2005 Posts: 2372

The software has a DSN handler that parses the bounce by default. Rules are used only when a bounce is not a DSN. In other words, rules are ignored when the bounce is a standard Delivery Status Notification (DSN) message.