Yahoo is committed to eliminating spam—eyuck! And you've got great tools to help keep spam out of your Inbox.
Yahoo! SpamGuard
Keep Yahoo! SpamGuard turned on. To check if it’s on:
Click Options in the upper-right corner of your Mail page.
Click Spam Protection from the list on the left.
In the “Spam Filter” section, do you see “SpamGuard is ON”? If not, turn it on by clicking the link: Turn SpamGuard ON.
In the area above your spam options, click Save Changes.
In this same section, you can also specify how often you’d like us to empty your Bulk folder (we do it automatically once a month, but you have options to empty it faster), as well as indicating your preference for showing—or blocking—images. Image blocking is another way to fend off spam!
Image Blocking
Keep Image Blocking on. Image blocking defeats the “hits” spammers receive whenever one of their images is “viewed”—which can include the moment you select a spam message before you click Spam. Here’s how to block images:
Click Options in the upper-right corner of your Mail page.
Under Spam, click Spam Protection.
At the bottom of the page—“Step 1 of 3: Spam Filter”—click Continue.
At the bottom of the next page—“Step 2 of 3: Marking Messages as Spam or Not Spam”—click Continue.
On “Step 3 of 3: Image Blocking”, select “Block all images”.
The Spam button
If you get a spam message in your Inbox, check the box beside it, then click Spam. This alerts us to the latest tricks and techniques that spammers are using, and helps us clamp down tighter and fight spam more effectively.
If you change your mind or think you made a mistake, just look for the next message from that sender in your Bulk folder and click Not Spam to reverse your vote.
Yahoo! Mail makes it easy to block unwanted messages from a known address. It's just as easy to remove the block if you want to.
Here's how to add a block to an email address:
Click Options in the upper-right corner of your Yahoo! Mail page.
From the list on the left, click Spam.
In the middle of this page, in the space provided in the "Blocked Addresses" section, enter the email address from which you don't want to receive mail.
Click Add.
The address now appears on your list of blocked addresses.
Yahoo! Mail offers up to 500 blocked email addresses. You can see how many of your blocked addresses you're using beside the list – for example, “4 of 500 used”.
You can also un-block addresses whenever you want.
To remove a block from an address:
From the Blocked Addresses list, click the address you wish to remove.
Click Remove beside your the Blocked Addresses list.
After removing an address from your Blocked Addresses list, you'll be able to receive mail from that address.
This isn't a great way to deal with spam, though, because spammers keep changing their From address and other information. For that, we offer SpamGuard.
what i did was close my junk mail folder. that way only the people i want to send me emails. i also get spam emails but they are fewer. and when i get them i mark them as spam so that they do not send me more junk mail.
click the little box next to it to check it and then press the spam button and then all the mail from them will go into your bulk folder and then all that mail will be deleted in 10 days.
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Yahoo is committed to eliminating spam—eyuck! And you've got great tools to help keep spam out of your Inbox.
Yahoo! SpamGuard
Keep Yahoo! SpamGuard turned on. To check if it’s on:
Click Options in the upper-right corner of your Mail page.
Click Spam Protection from the list on the left.
In the “Spam Filter” section, do you see “SpamGuard is ON”? If not, turn it on by clicking the link: Turn SpamGuard ON.
In the area above your spam options, click Save Changes.
In this same section, you can also specify how often you’d like us to empty your Bulk folder (we do it automatically once a month, but you have options to empty it faster), as well as indicating your preference for showing—or blocking—images. Image blocking is another way to fend off spam!
Image Blocking
Keep Image Blocking on. Image blocking defeats the “hits” spammers receive whenever one of their images is “viewed”—which can include the moment you select a spam message before you click Spam. Here’s how to block images:
Click Options in the upper-right corner of your Mail page.
Under Spam, click Spam Protection.
At the bottom of the page—“Step 1 of 3: Spam Filter”—click Continue.
At the bottom of the next page—“Step 2 of 3: Marking Messages as Spam or Not Spam”—click Continue.
On “Step 3 of 3: Image Blocking”, select “Block all images”.
The Spam button
If you get a spam message in your Inbox, check the box beside it, then click Spam. This alerts us to the latest tricks and techniques that spammers are using, and helps us clamp down tighter and fight spam more effectively.
If you change your mind or think you made a mistake, just look for the next message from that sender in your Bulk folder and click Not Spam to reverse your vote.
Yahoo! Mail makes it easy to block unwanted messages from a known address. It's just as easy to remove the block if you want to.
Here's how to add a block to an email address:
Click Options in the upper-right corner of your Yahoo! Mail page.
From the list on the left, click Spam.
In the middle of this page, in the space provided in the "Blocked Addresses" section, enter the email address from which you don't want to receive mail.
Click Add.
The address now appears on your list of blocked addresses.
Yahoo! Mail offers up to 500 blocked email addresses. You can see how many of your blocked addresses you're using beside the list – for example, “4 of 500 used”.
You can also un-block addresses whenever you want.
To remove a block from an address:
From the Blocked Addresses list, click the address you wish to remove.
Click Remove beside your the Blocked Addresses list.
After removing an address from your Blocked Addresses list, you'll be able to receive mail from that address.
This isn't a great way to deal with spam, though, because spammers keep changing their From address and other information. For that, we offer SpamGuard.
what i did was close my junk mail folder. that way only the people i want to send me emails. i also get spam emails but they are fewer. and when i get them i mark them as spam so that they do not send me more junk mail.
Good Luck.
click the little box next to it to check it and then press the spam button and then all the mail from them will go into your bulk folder and then all that mail will be deleted in 10 days.
Where's spam icon?
I have tried but all it does is shows up as spam. Not what I call as blocked.
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select the message and mark as spam so it wont happen again!