Monthly Archives: December 2009

Open Question: All Mail SEARCH functions have stopped working.?

They were terrible and inaccurate to start, but now don’t work.
New and CLASSIC versions fail at this. i have tried v simple searches.

Also – It put an email I sent myself INTO SPAM.

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Resolved Question: Why can’t Yahoo block emails you mark as spam?

I get an email from Company X, it’s spam so i mark it as such-it goes in the spam folder where it stays until Yahoo (or I) delete it. So why can’t they just bounce it back to the sender? The technology exists to bounce an email if someone’s email box is full, or if your email contains certain ‘rude’ words. Not that it seems to stop Viagra type ads.

So do they make money from advertisers off the amount of emails sent and received so blocking emails would actually cost them money?

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Resolved Question: why did my email start demanding verification?

every time i try to send an email it pops up a verification code -says it’s stopping me from sending spam. all i did was try to tell one of those thieves from nigeria to stop trying to rip me off. my filters don’t seem to stop them and i’m getting mad. must be time to find new email

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Voting Question: How do prevent email spam from politicians?

Just recently I’ve been getting spam email from random politicians that I’ve never heard of. I’m pretty sure I didn’t sign up for some political email list.

Since I’m getting emails from people that are also running for office and the emails are addressed to my first name, I’m guessing that there is a ‘master database’ that all of the politicians use to get name and email addresses from.

So instead of having to unsubscribe from each individual emailing list, I would like to remove myself from the ‘master database’ so I can stop receiving these emails entirely.

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Resolved Question: Yahoo classifies this email as spam, even though it’s not?

I signed up for a word of the day email, and Y!mail classifies it as spam and sends it to the spam folder even though it’s not spam and I want to read it. How do I stop this from happening?

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