Today Yahoo! confirmed that as of this month they no longer participate in Goodmail certified mail. It has not be confirmed as to why Yahoo! have withdrawn from the scheme but it is well known amongst the industry that Yahoo! have had continued infrastructure issues with their inbound mail and this may be related.

Its not all bad news for Goodmail customers however, last month we reported on a rumour that hotmail were due to start supporting the certified mail scheme. We still believe this is likely to happen.

Yahoo! today announced to the industry today that…

On March 24th, we will decommission the MX record for ‘gms.mail.yahoo.com’, the dedicated domain to which senders have been routing CertifiedEmail for Yahoo! Mail recipients. To ensure no disruption of email delivery to Yahoo!, we recommend clients consult with Goodmail and make any necessary changes to their email systems in advance of this date.

Email Manuals advise is that you should imediately stop sending goodmail certified messages to Yahoo! domains including rocketmail.com and ymail.com as you will not be receiving the benefits which come from doing so. Instead you should deliver mail, uncertified, to Yahoo!’s mainsteam MX records which are published in the normal manor.