Why are my emails to Yahoo are being delayed?

This is caused by a new spam fighting feature with Yahoo Mail called Grey Listing. For more details see this article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greylisting

What is happening is whenever a message is sent to yahoo, it replies with a "try again later message."
What it will do is wait for it to try again later if it likes the delay then it will allow the message to be sent.

 

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