We have accounts with all the webmail providers for deliverability testing.
Today I tried to set up the main contact address for my Yahoo!
account to be:
yahoo-throw@example.com
, the attempt was blocked by Yahoo! with an error.
This is not true as Yahoo! had not tested this address, no connection came from their servers.
I could add these addresses however:
yoo-throw@example.com
&
yaho-throw@example.com
,
so our tentative conclusion is that Yahoo! are filtering attempts to use throw-away address as a contact point.
Clients will need to be a little creative when using throw-away addresses with these and similar services if bogus error messages are to be avoided.
Throw-away e-mail addresses are provided as part of the SMTP service to our clients.