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by _jal 2212 days ago
In my experience, ATT is the worst. They've been blocking me for well over a decade. They're the only provider who has ignored every contact attempt I've made.

I don't care, from my perspective they're irrelevant. The last person I communicated who used their MX died recently, and otherwise ATT can bite me. But in a fit of annoyance several years ago I did configure my servers to deliver a heartfelt custom 550 response to ATT MXes.
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Crosseye_Jack 2212 days ago
IIRC AT&T is handled by Yahoo so pester them at https://io.help.yahoo.com/contact/index?page=contactform&loc...

EDIT: https://www.att.com/esupport/postmaster/digital-signature/ checked the AT&T support about delievery. Seems like they do use Yahoo these days.

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_jal 2212 days ago
Yahoo made a deal with them to service the mail services SBC bought/built that were rolled up into att.net. That is one of several mail services associated with them, and not the one I'm talking about.

I'm talking about the ones managed by Synacor, formerly managed by an ATT spinoff with a bland name I can't remember. I still have my notebook logging my (lack of) progress, which happened over several years and involved a bunch of entities - partners and internal spinoffs.

Trust me, I know how to google "att email".

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Crosseye_Jack 2212 days ago
I wasn't saying you didn't know any googlefu. just when you said ATT my head went to "oh you are dealing with their consumers... should thought I would C+P the link thats helped me in the past.

EDIT: As a follow up. I used to have contacts with BlueYonder, Sky and BT All ISP's that used to manager their own email systems but outsourced them to gmail and yahoo so my peronsal contacts within those companies for email have died off. It wasn't a slight on you. just one geek to another trying to help.

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_jal 2212 days ago
I think that came off as a lot snippier than intended, apologies.

All I meant is that I spent entirely too much time researching the web of entities supporting the Death Star's SMTP needs through the last decade, who on Linkedin listing those companies might be attached to the production technical team, etc. At some point I started joking that I knew knew more about their corporate structure than anyone not suing them or working in their legal department.

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