Feedburner emails no longer going through to AOL, Yahoo and More? DMARC Yahoo Issue
Wrong number subscribers shown & not receiving email with blogposts
Yahoo and AOL have made a drastic change to their ability to receive certain emails, specifically feed emails. Millions of mailing list deliveries are getting bounced and the subscribers have no idea! They’re not even given the opportunity to review it first.
Have you checked your Feedburner? Drop may be the the DMARC Yahoo Issue
My numbers of emails to my subscribers had been cut by more than a half (4600 subscribers versus 1900 receiving) due to this DMARC Yahoo issue which started around April 7.
Here’s some in-depth articles you absolutely must read on the DMARC Yahoo, AOL Issue. I did not go into detail in this blog post, so read these articles :
http://www.pcworld.com/
http://www.ietf.org/mail-
http://blog.madmimi.com/yahoo-dmarc-changes-email-marketing/
From Yahoo:
https://help.yahoo.com/kb/
From Googole Feedburner Forums:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/feedburner-statistics/yYkyRkFCYoY
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/feedburner-statistics/oN91YADNjWM
Observations on the DEMARC YAHOO issue:
If you are using feedburner and your “FROM” address associated with your Feedburner feed is a Yahoo email (theblonde@yahoo.com) or gmail.com or aol.com or others, ALL YOUR EMAILS (or some) are bouncing to anyone who has a yahoo address or gmail or aol or others. (The same “bouncing” phenomena is true of AOL or any other ISP using DMARCS). Let’s be CLEAR. A TON of your emails are not getting through at all, they are being rejected. They are not going to spam, they never even get through. Some people may say they are getting them but MANY ARE NOT!
My “FROM” address on my feedburner was a gmail one and still I had this massive drop in received emails after April 7. Even when I changed my “From” address to myname@stillblondeafteralltheseyears.com, the issue continued (this is one of the two recommended courses to follow).
WHAT YOU CAN TRY TO FIX THE FEEDBURNER AOL YAHOO DMARC Issue
#1 Unless Yahoo (Aol, gmail, etc) reverses this setting, one recommended workaround (which did not work for me) is this:
a) The Blogger with the Feedburner account (NOT the subscribers – the Blogger), must log in to their Feedburner account.
b) Click on their feed
c) Click “Publicize” then “Communication Preferences”
d) Change the “FROM” email address from using a Yahoo email to some other email – preferably one that is tied to the domain that the feed is for, such mailaddress@yourdomain.com (I was not using a yahoo account but a gmail account. I switched it to this format mailaddress@stillblondeafteralltheseyears.com where I had a email as well. This method has worked for some, it did not for me!)~ Jim P. via Google feedburner forums
#2 If after a few days #1 doesn’t work, switch your feed to a paid email service.
(Like Mad Mimi, Mail Chimp, Aweber) This #2 fix seems to be working for most. I can tell you I didn’t want to have to pay but a majority of traffic comes from my email feed so here I go!
I will update if this approach fixed my situation. I signed up for Mad Mimi after much research into pricing and recommendations by some huge bloggers (Simply Stacie and Amy Lynn Andrews).
UPDATE 5/5: I signed up for Mad Mimi all 4600 of my emails went out instead of the 1900 that were going out on Feedburner! Big score! I have never worked with such a great company as a blogger. They have a CHAT function and answered questions all day as I set things up! Highly recommend.
Mad Mimi Pricing and Service
VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: Mad Mimi seems to jump from FREE for Basic to $42 but if you look on the right hand side when you have clicked on the pricing tab under “CUSTOM PLAN”, you will see a place to put in your actual numbers of subscribers/contacts. A lower price will show up! $27 versus $42 for me. I also use Mail Chimp for my giveaway newsletters because they are free but their daily email RSS feed pricing is triple what Mad Mimi is ($75 versus $27 for me)…so DUH!
You can sign up for Mad Mimi HERE.
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I use my old aol address for all my subscriptions and so this brought up the question about who on my list also does that. I’m making sure my webmaster sees this post. Thank you.
you can look at your feed burner stats and see if there was a big drop around the beginning of april. That should be one clue. I can’t believe what a difference this has made. If you decide to use MadMimi I surely would appreciate you going through my link. MadMimi is free up to 2500 contacts. I can help you set it up if you need help, but their chat is phenomenal. SHeley
Thanks Shelley!! Guess I will try to send an email to some of them!!
Thanks for the update Shelley. Quick question. If I switched from yahoo to another email like say gmail, would I receive the blogs that I am signed up for? I am missing so many blog updates it is crazy. I guess I want to make sure that feedburner will work with gmail, or is it on the blogger side and it wouldn’t matter if I got a new email? Thanks for any insight you can share!!
More and more email services are going to this change. I believe yahoo, aol, and gmail so far. It’s the bloggers who have to change it. You might get lucky. But it’s really the bloggers who have to make the change. Glad it helped you Kimberly. The Chief Blonde
Updating – I just checked Feeburner and have lost hundreds (maybe a thousand or more) subscribers. Switched to Mad Mimi using your link today. Now, where do I go for a tutorial on how to use it? I’ve never sent out an actual newsletter before; I just relied on the automatic feeds.
They have all kinds of tutorials RIGHT THERE. And you can jump on chat with them, there are amazing.
Hmmmm….. I am bookmarking this to consider in June when I have more time after school is out. I’ve never understood why some bloggers use MailChimp or other email programs. This tutorial is exactly what I needed to know. Thanks so much for the info!
Thanks for this info. I can change this for my blog, but do you know where I can find all the subscriptions I’ve signed up for so I can change the email address I used to subscribe to the blogs and lists that I used to get delivered in my yahoo inbox?
I don’t know how to access everything you signed up for unless you have old emails that you could refer to? Sorry. The Chief Blonde
I use MadMimi too and love it!
Great tips. I’m sticking with a free plan for now, but once I have all of your glorious subscribers, I’ll need this info.
I checked mine and it had dropped but it bounced right back up again.
I absolutely have to do this – have been talking about it for a while
If you do Lena, and decide on Mad Mimi…please make sure to use my affiliate link. Would be much appreciated.
I appreciate you sharing this information. I have to check it all out now!
oh this is so helpful I need to switch ASAP!
You will be shocked when you see how few people are actually getting your feed compared to those subscribed. Please use my link if you go with Mad Mimi!
Wow Shelley. Thanks so much for sharing this! I do use feedburner and need to check this out!
Hi Nancy, You will be shocked. I had 4600 subscribed and only 1900 were getting. Last night I sent out my first Mad Mimi. All 4600 went out. It was amazing.
I have had some complaints from yahoo email subscribers, but my email is not hosted on gmail- I will have to look into getting some sort of self hosted or paid email that can better distribute my feed, thanks.
Hi Jenna, It’s not your email it’s where your feed goes through. Do you use feedburner? Chances are you are having this issue. Go look at your numbers to see if they have dropped. Jump on chat if you need help! Shelley
So Mad Mimi is more of a mail aggregate? I use Feedburner but I’m still trying to understand how this service can be proxied for Feedburner, unless it IS a feed service, in which case it makes sense there are other options than Feedburner, but I never considered subscribing to a service outside of Feedburner.
@Jenna yes it takes your Rss feed that readers can subscribe to and sends out the email.
ok, thanks for the info on this. I have been missing soo many newsletters!
I may switch too!!
Hope you will use my link if you do Paula! Shelley
I don’t think I ever used Feedburner, guess I will not start now :).
Liz, So you don’t have any kind of email subscribe on your blog for your followers to get your feed? If not, you are really missing out on traffic. Shelley
Actually, looks like I lied – I just checked my site and it DOES use Feedburner. How can you tell how many subscribers you have, though? I just have it as a box on my site where people can sign up, but I do know the “from” address is liz[at]yesnofilms.com, not a Yahoo address, luckily.
jump on chat with me while you are in your feedburner. I can show you. Shelley
I am such a technology idiot with some things so I have no understanding of any of this! My email subscribe is through a WP plugin, not sure if this applies to me?
Have your emails sent dropped radically? IDK. But you should check it out. Shelley
I want to thank you so much for posting this. I noticed that my e-mail newsletter from feedburner was not coming through a couple weeks ago. I thought it was a fluke since my site was down for several hours. Then I noticed that it still wasn’t going through. So I did the same thing–I have switched, and I am paying as well. I know it kind of irks me to have to pay, but in the long run, it will be better. And come to think of it, your e-mails have not been coming through so now I can be assured they do!
Great RUTH! So glad you got the one last night! Shelley
Thanks so much for the info. I had been noticing some serious non-delivery issues with yahoo and have switched mostly to g-mail and outlook. It’s a shame because there are many features on Yahoo mail that I really like. But the non-delivery issues are serious enough to switch over to somewhere else. Thanks for all you do!
THanks for letting me know that you were affected and now you are at least getting mine!
Thanks so much for telling us about this! I have not been getting my daily blog updates and I thought I was doing something wrong. This explains why I haven’t been getting those e-mails!