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Better effort on the part of Yahoo is needed to detect spam before letting it get through to users.

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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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  • Marvin Fluckiger commented  ·   ·  Report

    Beating the spam Box detection CAN IT BE DONE?

    This top email has something something at (@) something . com
    Now the bottom one’s don’t have this same address they have spoofed it by using what looks like a IP address. So you can’t use the Block senders as wall delete them all at once. There were 4 full pages of them. HERE”S and example
    Received: from 10.217.151.201
    by atlas124.free.mail.ne1.yahoo.com pod-id NONE with HTTPS; Fri, 10 Feb 2023 22:39:50 +0000
    Return-Path: <return@mail09.edondenell.com>
    X-Originating-Ip: [188.93.211.47]
    Received-SPF: pass (domain of mail09.edondenell.com designates 188.93.211.47 as permitted sender)
    Authentication-Results: atlas124.free.mail.ne1.yahoo.com;
    dkim=unknown;
    spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=mail09.edondenell.com;
    dmarc=unknown reason=from header is empty;
    X-Apparently-To: WHO THEY WANT TO JUNK @yahoo.com; Fri, 10 Feb 2023 22:39:50 +0000
    X-YMailAVSC: pdC5g4w3bBuunB_qCLOUgyEVB9onA1Wz6gJ_XLB12nT6fm6
    VKQ.TgHUuR5WuTYrumoGipLieQlTrnHvQm3m6V8xs17oTI.mJhF2hOm8ilwn
    kSJ1K9V.gLfj.SeqSfz0V5NiXIF.mt_O27ES5MXgD8w2EyFfSYPsz8Nxrvpl

    One other thing I just thought of was if you use the UN-subscribe in this tab don’t. My theory is that this takes you email back to sender they then know the account is being used as well then can sale your email anywhere it’s being bought.
    SO my big question is how to block these kind of emails
    Or maybe we make a junk-email-retrun-folder@ Their-Email-Somewhere and on one particular day jam up their email box ! ! !

  • Charles Grube commented  ·   ·  Report

    Why is yahoo mail letting emails starting with numbers through. Clearly they are fake accounts. Here some examples.
    38688506@
    212063464@

  • JV commented  ·   ·  Report

    Edit: additional context: Yahoo admin decided to combine my original post with this unrelated topic. The below is NOT dealing with spam, but rather blocking my ability to send emails with these links.

    Yahoo used to have a very definitive blacklist of censored sites that I kept track of. They backed off now (just like how world governments and BigTech all colluded on censoing COVID19 info, then suddenly backed off recently), but then they added another to their list instead: archive.today / archive.is / archive.vn / archive.ph

    If we try to compose any emails that includes those urls with those domains, we are BLOCKED from sending it and blocked from saving them as Drafts too!

    "An error occurred while sending the message (link to draft message)
    Message cannot be saved as draft"

    It is 100% reproducible. I found a workaround that involves exploiting a buggy behavior which I won't detail here, but this censorship in general is unacceptable.

  • JV commented  ·   ·  Report

    Edit: additional context since Yahoo decided to combine my original post with this topic. My problem is actually the opposite of this topic's original poster. It sounds like the original poster of this thread wanted Yahoo to block spam completely before even reaching his spam folder. I am having the problem of suddenly getting too many legitimate NON-spam emails being sent to the spam folder.

    Since about Feb. 13, 2023 for me, Yahoo's spam filter suddenly got much more aggressive than before, marking too many legitimate emails as spam. Since then, the large majority of the emails in the Spam folder are actually legitimate emails! In fact, even some emails I send to myself gets marked as spam!

    I know there are many complaints about this in the past, and I don't know if filters are personalized but while it was sort of a problem before, it was never this bad for me where too many got marked as spam. In fact it used to be the opposite, where more real spam (phishing emails, malware types) gets past the spam filter into the inbox. I can deal with that because it's only on occassion and I always spot them, but the current opposite situation is worse.

    Furthermore, the "Not Spam" button seems useless in terms of training the spam filter to avoid marking the same emails (using sender, domain, header contents) as spam again because it still happens. I don't know it needs to be done many more times to successfully train the ML algorithms or filters, but so far, the "Not Spam" isn't working. But that itself is just a crutch because I shouldn't have to go through so many every day

    Yahoo seems to be relying totally on very fuzzy email content analysis that's unreliable in terms of differentiating between spam and not spam. At the very least, Yahoo should be looking at headers, and giving legitimate senders that we marked as "Not Spam" absolute priority, overriding spam filter content analysis.

  • [Deleted User] commented  ·   ·  Report

    Searched "how to make Yahoo Mail filter spam better" and all that comes up is "mark emails as spam and it will start filtering them." I've been marking spam like crazy for a month and it just keeps getting worse. NO other mail platform has allowed so much spam. If this keeps up I'm migrating all my Yahoo Mail to my iCloud Mail account and dropping Yahoo Mail.

  • Jennifer Wilson commented  ·   ·  Report

    Here's another issue. It's recommended to check other suggestions and ideas before posting new ones, so I did. I agree with so many other comments and want to vote to help cut down on all the new post as recommened but every time it won't let me vote saying " we can't count your vote at this time" something like that so that's not working either. Why can't I vote on previous posts, where it says " How important is this to you? Please fix the spam

  • Jennifer Wilson commented  ·   ·  Report

    The more I'm using the spam filter the spam I'm getting. I have to remember to check the spam folder regularly because non spam often gets sent into the spam folder. I've missed important emails because of that even from regular senders. Using the spam filter seems to increase more spam. Why?

  • Adrian Frigioiu commented  ·   ·  Report

    For a few weeks now I receive a LOT of spam emails, all of them with similar content and the same text formatting. I believe your servers have been sacked because all of them manage to pass through your Spam Filters. They are clearly sent by the same entity if you look at the message content and formatting.

    Maybe you should check the spam activity on the servers.

  • Powdersprings commented  ·   ·  Report

    Keep spam out of inbox ((big problem) AND spam folder.(50-100 a day). Gmail account never has inbox spam, and in the past two months NO spam even in the spam folder. DO WHATEVER GMAIL IS DOING!! BTW, the domains of the spam are now scrambled alphabet soup, thereby rendering the block 3 domains function useless.

  • Peter Nolan commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'm getting 100 spams a day! What happened to the block function? Bring it back or do something even better.

  • warwick dreher commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'm having the same issue.
    One mailing list I'm on (with filters set to go to a particular folder) keeps going to SPAM.
    I've had to move this mailing list emails from spam 3 times in the past week.
    The issue I suspect is that they take note of people saying it's spam, but ignoring people saying that it's not.
    In this case there's probably a number of fake email addresses saying that it's spam to stop it going to those who want it.
    Another side of this issue is that their spam detection is broken.
    I know that they DON'T use a white list or safe list for each user (unlike Hotmail). If they did, this whole issue would be fixed.

    I agree that they should run the email through the user's filters BEFORE applying the spam check.

    Best wishes,
    Warwick

  • Brandon Fleming commented  ·   ·  Report

    i dont know why the emails from the the native corporation im enrolled with is being sent to the spam. i tried to go to the filter setting and have the emails sent to my inbox, but no its still going to the spam folder. it seems i should change my email and not use yahoo anymore

  • Jan Turowski commented  ·   ·  Report

    Outlook, Gmail and even Apple. Uses basic authentication checks before email delivery. It's called SPF. Look it up. It rejects any emails that fail and are known to be spam. This needs to be a thing. My mailbox has over 1000 of spam/phishing emails a day. Which could have been prevented by BASIC of BASICS of authentication.

  • James commented  ·   ·  Report

    Lately I've been getting spam from emails with very long addresses. I would like a way to filter all messages from address over 40 or so characters long into the spam folder.

  • Mark Parsons commented  ·   ·  Report

    Too much spam is getting through! Fix it! Also, sometimes the spam folder will not delete spam with the trash can. Have to select delete all to manually delete.

  • Dervin Owens commented  ·   ·  Report

    The spam On Yahoo is beyond ridiculous! I block senders , I block domains but still receive spam from those sources. Yahoo must be partners somehow with these spammers!

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