97 spam emails on a Sunday!!!!!!!!
Better effort on the part of Yahoo is needed to detect spam before letting it get through to users.
Hi. We're sorry to hear you're receiving spam emails! We have some solutions for you, please refer to this article to learn how to best manage unwanted emails: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/manage-spam-mailing-lists-yahoo-mail-sln28056.html
We also added additional security features for Yahoo Mail:
https://help.yahoo.com/kb/additional-security-features-yahoo-mail-sln29297.html
If you need assistance, you can reach out to us at help.yahoo.com
Thank you!
Yahoo Mail team
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Michael Hickey commented
I have exhausted Yahoo's limit on the amount of SPAM emails I get that can be automatically sent into my SPAM folder or TRASH folder.
Just need more space in the SPAM and TRASH repository's for this junk emails.
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sniece commented
I've been frustrated for some time now that my custom filters weren't working. Reading this forum explains why, and reveals that many other users have the same issue. We're trying to use filters to delete certain messages--not send to spam, just delete immediately. But some replies here have explained that the spam filter is applied first, so custom filters won't see any messages deemed spam. I think there's a solution that would work for everyone.
First, whether or not you make any other change, please put the explanation about the spam filter much more prominently in all of the documentation about spam and custom filters. It's obvious that many people aren't seeing it wherever you put it now, and wasting their time and yours as a result.
There's also a documentation problem with the term "block". Most people assume it means "Don't put any messages from this address into any of my folders any more. I don't want them at all, ever. Just get rid of them." The Yahoo help pages do make clear that "block" here only means "keep sending them to spam", but most of us never see that. So we keep blocking senders and keep being annoyed that they keep reappearing. If you're going to keep your definition of blocking, you need to EXPLAIN it right in the popup blocking dialog and everywhere else you use the term.
Now to filters and why we want them to trash things. It's important to review the spam folder to catch things that aren't spam and maybe keep up with new patterns in spam. But it's much harder to see the non-spam when the folder is full of stuff from senders that we already know *and Yahoo already knows* are spammers. WHY in the world do you assume that we would always keep wanting to look at this stuff, in spam or anywhere? Maybe some are things we want to keep an eye on, or change our minds about. BUT once we know that an address will only ever be sending us spam, we don't need to see anything from it ever again. First, it's annoying; second, it's unneccessary; third, it's counterproductive in that it makes it hard to do what we need to do. That's what a lot of us are trying to do with the filters--send those addresses right to trash.
I understand why you might want to keep running the spam filter first, for safety. So the very simple solution would be to allow us to run custom filters on the spam folder, to trash things that end up there that we don't want to see. I'm sure it used to work this way, as I previously set up filters for known spammer addresses that did never show up in spam afterward. If you removed this functionality by accident, please reinstate it. If you did it on purpose, please explain to everyone here why you think it's a good idea that we should have to keep putting up with seeing this stuff.
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TERRY LUCAS commented
for the 3rd time fix your spam filters !!!!!!!!!!
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TERRY LUCAS commented
fix your spam filters!!!
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Matt Martino commented
Over the past week, my blocked addresses in Security and Privacy settings are no longer blocking spam e-mails. I continue to get e-mails from addresses that are already blocked within my blocked list within settings.
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David Parmentier commented
This SPAM gets through no matter I do (amber@converseseduce.com). Please block.
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Gene DeFouw commented
Provided an icon that we can click to BLOCK unwanted unsolicited messages so that they can never again send an email to me.
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sv amulet commented
Block spam emails with common subject wording. I am constantly barraged with junk emails with same subject but different email address. Too tedious to block each one by address as it just comes back from a new address.
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Janos Varga commented
Dear Yahoo!
I have been a subscriber to your mail service for about 30 years. I have had minor problems in the past, especially in the early days, but I have never encountered anything like this.
My SPAM directory is not working correctly. It would not be a big problem that it is full of real spam, but the daily amount of spam is beyond the limit. There are 25-30 letters a day, all from different addresses, from ladies 'nearby' making all sorts of offers. Because the addresses are different, I can't block them, so I have to check every day to see if any of them are genuine letters from my live partner. And it does, which is why I have turned to you: sometimes my son's (!) mail is being spammed, sometimes a business partner's.
You understand that this is not right, don't you?
I await your reply.Best regards:
János Varga (vargajanos@yahoo.com) -
László Galambos commented
Block email address not working, make it work
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[Deleted User] commented
your non existent spam filter system still sucks.
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Kathy ~~ commented
For the third time in as many days I've marked the same person not spam. How many times does it take? This isn't even an odd email, it's a government address ending in .gov. How difficult can it be to stop putting important mail in the spam folder when I've reported it several times already?
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John Belanger commented
I have blocked some emails I have received and they keep showing up
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Barry Meyer commented
I have already moved some organizations that I receive mail to alternative email providers.
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Barry Meyer commented
Some mail matching a filter is processed correctly.
Some mail matching the same filter is in the inbox.
Some mail matching the same filter is delivered to SPAM.
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daniel sebring commented
because they want you to upgrade and pay a monthly fee for it to be managed
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[Deleted User] commented
Ban ALL phishing and spam email solicitations completely. Your filters are abysmal.
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John Ralph commented
Obvious spam - including spam already in my spam folder - is now going to my inbox. Why did you stop checking for spam?
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J. K. commented
Yahoo Mail - It baffles me that you cannot filter so much obvious Spam from my inbox. I can only conclude that Yahoo just doesn't care to make an effort. Bear in mind, this may result in Yahoo losing users.
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andrew plejer commented
Stop Stop Stop !!!!!!!!