Yahoo mail settings question

I just went through a similar conundrum with yahoo recently, with their marking a2k updates as spam no matter what I did. One day it just stopped, about a month later, after clicking NOT SPAM about a thousand times.

Do you know the email addresses of the ones you said were spam by mistake? Then you can contact them, have them send you another email, it will end up in bulk mail, and you can click on it and then click the NOT SPAM button.

I think what happened in my case is that clicking not spam something like ten times in a row - ten updates - confuses the system (I read that somewhere on yahoo help) and that the one time I only got one update into the bulk mail and clicked not-spam, it worked.

What happens is that when you click 'not spam' Yahoo sends it over to the Inbox. But in my case it still sent new updates to bulk for a month.

the big issue ( after reading tons of unhelpful yahoo tips -grr- )
is that they are not showing up in ANY folder. Bulk, trash.. nothing

I dont have a spam folder though??

where is that?

Bulk is the spam folder, far as I know, from which you can click something as NOT SPAM. But, if you clicked something in the regular INBOX as spam, then it would go to nowhereland visually, at the same time it would presumeably get on their SPAM list for the future. Which is why I think you have to get the emailers to send them again, thence they'll go into Bulk instead of Inbox...

I know the aggravation, I was tearing my hair.

(I don't know that I'm correct that this is the only way you can fix it, maybe someone yahoo-smarter will come along and tell us.)

your solution makes perfect sense to me....


but my friend ( and the book group ) say they are all sending emails to me

i just dont see them.

I spam guarded them too well I guess.

I wonder if I went through my old mail, and marked an old email as 'not spam' if THAT would work??


im off to try it..

In my hours of dealing with my Yahoo travail I did finally find a 'contact us' link - but I never heard back. Can't remember where that was, think it wasn't on the mail box page, not sure.

I know in Yahoo Messanger there is a contact us option


didnt hear from that one either i remember..

>sigh<

yahoo remove block
You may want to try this:

Go into the menu options on main page of Yahoo email,
select the Mail options folder on far right,
go to "Block Addresses"
and see if they are in there. If they are, remove their addresses from the "remove block" list.
Don't forget to click on the "remove block" button and
make sure ONLY their addresses are highlighted when you click on that button.

Thanks Ragman!

You'll all enjoy that the only block listed on mine (I've never clicked on that before) was, heh, Moderators@a2k....

At one time, I had managed to accidently block a half dozen addresses. I had no clue I was missing mail till my office accomplice tried several times to email a spreadshee. Wish Ragman had been there. It took two weeks longer to find the problem while working with the yahoo help desk.

Two weeks, Roger, what a pain.

What I really felt like saying was "Roger, you IDIOT!"

At one time, I also deleted the entire contents of the inbox. I meant to check the very top one, but yahoo gives one block immediately above the first message. A check in that box will check everything. Second time I did that, I knew enough to go to the trash can, check everything, and move back to inbox.

Thanks for the clue, I've allllllmost done that.

shewolf
You're welcome folks.

I hope shewolf is able to fix her problem with what I suggested?

Re: yahoo remove block


you are a god..
thank you.

welcome
you're quite welcome. Glad to help

For whoever you don't want to block, click "Options" then "filters" and have the emails filter to your inbox.