Using Classic Outlook on Windows for personal email, calendar, and contact management
Registrar. Just implemented a DMARC record. Will have to wait and see.
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getting these two error messages when sending to yahoo
1/11/2024 3:34:15 PM - Server at DS0PR14MB7526.namprd14.prod.outlook.com returned '550 5.4.300 Message expired -> 421 4.4.2 Connection dropped due to SocketError'
1/11/2024 3:24:36 PM - Server at PH0PR14MB6715.namprd14.prod.outlook.com returned '550 5.4.300 Message expired -> 421 4.4.2 Connection dropped due to ConnectionReset'
Using Classic Outlook on Windows for personal email, calendar, and contact management
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Registrar. Just implemented a DMARC record. Will have to wait and see.
It would have hit us all the same, just a few weeks later. And it sounds like the SPF record is irrelevant now (at least for Yahoo).
That's the common thread. Was the change in your Microsoft DNS or your registrar DNS?
S**t! One of the changes we made to my account involved the SPF record, and now it's fixed. We also made changes to the DMARC records.
I like your theory of an enforcement change at Yahoo. Even so, refusing the socket hardly seems like the correct response to an SPF failure.
Agreed that the response seems incorrect. I suppose they are more interested in foiling spoofers, so dropping the socket connection is the easiest thing to do. Not that I agree with it, just that it makes sense.
I might have got this fixed. I found a second SPF record in DNS -- that's Sender Policy Framework, not Sun Protection Factor :-)
There must be only one. In my case the first record was created about 10 years ago when we used a different service. That was abandoned about 5 years ago but nobody thought or new to remove the old record when they created the one for Microsoft 365. My guess is that Yahoo has made a change to more strictly enforce SPF. If you have more than one SPF record then the check will fail and your messages will bounce.