Jammed: Full into Capacity

I am using Yahoo! Mail as my primary e-mail address provider because of its user-friendly interface. But ever since, I’ve already have a problem with its inefficient spam filter. I’ve blocked quite a number of spam e-mail addresses, but spam messages from these addresses still make their way to my inbox. I have tried numerous ways to prevent and block spam to my inbox but to no avail.

For long years, I’ve relied on the Bulk Mail folder feature as my spam guard since it automatically confines those identified spams. I thought that clicking the “empty” link beside the Bulk Main folder link was the best way to get rid of spam. Checking the settings of my Yahoo! Mail account, which I didn’t expect to help me in battling with spam, never crossed my mind. Luckily, I bothered checking the settings the other day, and there, I found the solution to my problem.

Here’s how:

1. Login to your Yahoo! Mail account.

2. Go to Options.

3. Then click Spam Protection.

4. Check if your SpamGuard is “on”. If not turn it on.

5. Under Spam Filter, you are given a choice to either immediately delete messages identified as spams upon receipt or save these messages in the Bulk Folder for how many months (depending on your choice). I recommend that you choose the former option but you have to remember that if you choose this option, you will not be able to review the messages before they are deleted. The best way to prevent official messages be filtered as spam is to add the sender’s e-mail add to your address book.

6. Under Mark Spam + Not Spam and “when I mark a message as Spam, in addition to deleting the message:” check, “Add the sender’s email address to my blocked addresses list”. This provides and additional means to prevent spammers from entering your inbox.

7. Click Save.

For additional security and spam prevention, click Options again, then General Preferences. Scroll below and find Security. Then click the box before the “Block HTML graphics in email messages from being downloaded.” Emails can contain offensive images or can contain invisible images that tell the sender that you have opened that email (and thus verify that your email address is active).

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