I am a paying Yahoo Mail Plus customer and would like Yahoo to substantially increase, or remove, the current limits on blocked domains and blocked email addresses.

My longstanding Yahoo email address was exposed following major third-party data breaches involving Medibank Private and Optus in Australia. Since then, it has received a very significant volume of spam and malicious email.

One of the reasons I upgraded from free Yahoo Mail to a paid subscription was to obtain the enhanced blocking capacity. However, I am now approaching both limits — approximately 500 blocked domains and 1,000 blocked email addresses.

Yahoo Customer Care has confirmed that these limits cannot currently be increased and suggested that I submit this request through the product feedback forum.

For customers whose email addresses have been compromised through large-scale data breaches, simply deleting old blocked senders to make room for new ones defeats the purpose of maintaining a blocked list.

I therefore ask Yahoo to consider either:

• substantially increasing these limits for Yahoo Mail Plus customers;
• providing unlimited blocking for paid customers; or
• allowing customers who genuinely require additional capacity to purchase or request an increased allowance.

I have used this Yahoo address for many years and would prefer to remain a paying Yahoo customer. However, if I cannot adequately protect the account from the continuing volume of spam, I may eventually have little choice but to migrate my email services elsewhere.

I hope Yahoo will consider this as a practical security and privacy improvement for its paying customers.