Spam

jolynyk · Post by **jolynyk** » 16 Jun 2010 7:05 am

I have Windows XP Home.. IE8, & Yahoo mail, AVG 9.0.. 95% of my Spam used to go to the Spam Box. Lately 50% of my Spam goes to the Inbox... Any suggestions??

Bill McCloskey · Post by **Bill McCloskey** » 16 Jun 2010 7:10 am

Get a gmail account.

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 16 Jun 2010 7:41 am

Check your yahoo mail account, they may have changed the spam filtering and you may also have to change a setting for your account's spam filter.

The operating system and Internet Explorer and Anti-virus have nothing to do with the yahoo mail account or their spam filter since it's a "web based" e-mail account.

Earnest Bovine · Post by **Earnest Bovine** » 16 Jun 2010 9:23 am

Yahoo spam filter works better if you train it as they suggest. That means marking spam in your inbox. Even more important I think is looking in the spam filter and marking "not spam" as needed.

jolynyk · Post by **jolynyk** » 16 Jun 2010 3:13 pm

Thanks for your replies.. will get in there & start filtering..

Chip Fossa · Post by **Chip Fossa** » 26 Jun 2010 2:07 pm

Use MailWasher.

www.mailwasher.com

Wiz Feinberg · Post by **Wiz Feinberg** » 26 Jun 2010 3:30 pm

Chip Fossa wrote:Use MailWasher.

www.mailwasher.com

Chip;
Jolynyk is using is browser to read email. MailWasher does not work with browser-based email, only POP3 desktop clients.

Chip Fossa · Post by **Chip Fossa** » 26 Jun 2010 4:03 pm

Wiz,

I knew that.

Wiz Feinberg · Post by **Wiz Feinberg** » 27 Jun 2010 8:56 am

@Jolynyk;
SInce you use Yahoo as your email service and are doing so via a web browser, consider changing to Windows Live Mail, a POP3 desktop email client, with MailWasher Pro filtering incoming mail. You would need to upgrade to Yahoo Plus, which is a paid email service, going for $19.99 for a whole a year. It allows POP3 desktop access to send and receive Yahoo email.

Windows Live Mail (WLM) and MailWasher Pro both have built in learning and configurable junk filters and blacklists. MailWasher uses custom made spam filters, which I write and publish. My filters detect almost all incoming spam and either automatically or manually deletes it before I download it to my desktop email program. The only time spam gets through is when WLM runs an automatic check after 8 hours, which I cannot seem to stop, despite trying many suggestions. Any spam sitting in the MailWasher program, that I didn't notice, is downloaded at that time. This would never happen if I could find a way to stop WLM from ever checking for mail without me pushing the Sync button.