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WttW: Unresolvable RFC.5321 domain at Yahoo
- May 30, 2023
- Posted by: Top Deliverability
- Category: Industry News Word to the Wise
Word to the Wise just posted a interesting write-up:
Seen this recently? 451 Message temporarily deferred due to unresolvable RFC.5321 from domain; see https://postmaster.yahooinc.com/error-codes This is Yahoo doing some extra work to identify that the 5321.From domain1 of the mail is acceptable to them. Yahoo are going (slightly) beyond what’s required for the return path to be valid in SMTP terms. SMTP just requires that the return path be syntactically valid – i.e., looks like an email address – and that it be deliverable. The basic DNS check you might do would be to check if the right-hand-side of the email address has an MX record2. So for a bounce address of bounces@email.example.com you’d check to see if email.example.com had an MX record. Yahoo want to also check that it looks like a legitimate address in another way, that the organizational domain of the right-hand-side looks legitimate. The organizational domain is what you might think of as a “domain”
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