Yahoo mail users: is your spam filter freaking out? - Beyond Tiki

P Polynesiac Tiki Socialite San Pedro, CA Joined: Jan 29, 2004 Posts: 2099	P Polynesiac Posted posted on Tue, Apr 6, 2004 11:42 AM Yeah, my yahoo accounts do this as well as my hotmail account. I have to go through and select the emails that I want to be added to my "safe" list. Before I did this, the only emails coming through were from the names on my address list - so that meant that any mailer I signed up for on the internet and "new" friends emails would be sent straight to the bulk or junk mail folder. It can be a real pain to wade through that stuff if you don't check it and empty it every day. Quite a hassle, but at least the majority of the crap emails get sent straight there. As far as virus attachments - yeah, all the time. I got some that were RETURNED to me, which led me to believe my account was spamming other accounts, so I changed my password to something a little more difficult to decode and haven't received one since.

Yeah, my yahoo accounts do this as well as my hotmail account. I have to go through and select the emails that I want to be added to my "safe" list. Before I did this, the only emails coming through were from the names on my address list - so that meant that any mailer I signed up for on the internet and "new" friends emails would be sent straight to the bulk or junk mail folder.
It can be a real pain to wade through that stuff if you don't check it and empty it every day. Quite a hassle, but at least the majority of the crap emails get sent straight there.
As far as virus attachments - yeah, all the time. I got some that were RETURNED to me, which led me to believe my account was spamming other accounts, so I changed my password to something a little more difficult to decode and haven't received one since.

Post #84850 by Polynesiac on Tue, Apr 6, 2004 11:42 AM