We all get some unwelcome emails from time to time. You probably do what I do and just press delete, but sometimes you need a bit more muscle on your side to deal with them.
That’s where the Address Blocker comes in handy. It stops emails from addresses you don’t want to hear from. Just what you need? Then here’s how to do it.
Click Options, then on the list on the left click Spam. Right in the middle of the page you’ll find a space in the “Blocked Email Addresses” section. All you’ve got to do is put any email addresses you don’t want to get mail from in here, then click Add.
So whether you have some annoying spammer who has targeted you, feel like some scammer is phishing for your info, or you just have some regular old person who is kind of harassing you, this is where you can designate them for blocking.
Told you it was easy.
Ryan
Community Manager
Yahoo! Mail
Seems like nothing has been done to address ANY of these issues. What the hell am I paying for?
I would like to join the chorus of complaints about the existing spam system. The updates to Yahoo Mail are pretty but that’s about it. Pretty is nice. However, when every time I check my e-mail there are from two to ten new spams messages there or if I’m gone for a while 50 or more, it gets very frustrating. Sometimes there will be three in a row in the spam box from the SAME sender. As has been stated in this blog previously, there aren’t enough filters available or enough blocked addresses available.
It basically seems like the spam process simply blocks anyone who is NOT in your address book. I can’t think of anything any more elementary than that. What this does is that when someone who is not in your address book sends you an e-mail it goes to spam. What this means is that you can’t just delete or empty your spam mail. You have to at least pay cursory attention to what is in there to assure yourself that you don’t delete something you actually want. Very frustrating and time consuming when you get literally scores of spam per day.
And for the reader that gripped about us complaining because Yahoo was free, I upgraded quite some time ago to Yahoo Mail Plus and PAY for that and the spam situation has gotten worse.
As I said in the beginning, what we now have is pretty but just as ineffective at blocking spam than what we had before. The comparison to Outlook stops at the physical aspect because their spam filtering function in conjuction with Computer Associates Anti-Spam is light years ahead of what we are being offerred, nay, more accuratly described as being subjected to.
Why Don’t you all get 2 email addresses. 1 for close friends/family, accounts and important stuff and the other for messing around. That’s what I did. I get about 4-8 spam a day on my primary and about 50+ on my secondary.
Also, i will not pay you one penny for “enhanced spam blocking”. That is probably why you let spam come trough.
Also, your new mail stinks, i do not want to read tragic news headlines when i see my mail. I do not even read the news anymore cause it is all tragedy.
Dear yahoo,
Your email service is a joke. I have spam filters enabled yet i got 15 sex spam mails per day. I know these phrases have been flagged. How hard is it to block subjects like “cun*, teens, sex, cum, cam, etc..”
Now the spammers are setting up groups on yahoo, and spamming with invites. I just got 2 invites to groups called “view cams for free”
I am leaving your service, you can not stop the chat bots, you can not stop the spammers.
Also, i was just about to spend 100 bucks on your yahoo personals, but i see now that i will be flooded with spam, so i am opening a hotmail account and spending it at match.com
get a clue people
Why can’t Yahoo use the same Domain Keys technology on spam that spoofs as coming from Yahoo? I get dozens of spam emails a week to my Yahoo address that try to deceive that they are coming from Yahoo addresses. Just block the bad guys and only let email from “yahoo.com” come through that is genuine. If it will work for Ebay and PayPal why can’t it work for Yahoo email?
Spammers often randomize their email addresses. But they usually use the same computer to generate those addresses. Why not block IP addresses or MAC addresses that have been identified as the source of excessive spam- if, say, over 1000 people had clicked: “This Is Spam”
Former_Girlfriend@Moveon.com LOL!!!
Lately it seems that the volume of spam has increased dramatically. This morning when I opened Yahoo mail, I had 181 spam msgs, and this was overnight. What’s going on with this????
I think Yahoo does a decent job of filtering spam. However, I only want to see messages from my contacts in my in box. Everything else should go to spam. Hotmail has this feature, why doesn’t Yahoo?.
I’m so annoyed with all the junk in my in box that does not come from my contact list, that I’m considering taking my money (I pay for yahoo mail service), and going back to hotmail.
YAHOO, are you listening!?!?!
Can someone at Yahoo please call me on my cell phone as I have suddenly lost all my inbox e- and sent box e-mails from July to Sept 27. I have important informaiton in my inbox that must be recovered
Thanks Mary Westerhaus
[phone number removed for privacy reasons]
sometimes i get unsubscribed messages, in my inbox, i do not want to block messages as i may unwittingly block messages of my own long lost ones
The automatic spam filtering works pretty good, but my spam folder is impossible to work with since so much of the spam is dated 2037 or some other future date. with 1000′s in there it is simply too much trouble to see if you’ve blocked something I wanted to get. Can’t search it either.
For addresses I block, 500 is totally inadequate if you are blocking by domain names, let along email addresses. We need to be shown the ip address and allowed to block a single Ip number or a group of them.
It does no good at all to hit “this is spam” after the first 500 times you’ve done it, since it would appear yahoo mail is simply ignoring you and not letting you know.
If there were a reasonably easy way of sorting the contents of the blocked email so one could get rid of all those with the same domain name and put in the domain name. but even that is only half the job since the same IP can have dozens of domain names and it’s the ip that is actually sending the spam.
Does Yahoo do any stats on what everyone reports as spam? It would seem to me that if a particular domain name had a million “this is spam” clicks that yahoo might go after the owner of that domain name with a lawsuit about wasting user’s time and costing them money.
But more importantly, if the same ip address has a million “this is spam” clicks and there are more than two or three domain names associated with that ip, then I think it worth while to do something about it.
I don’t think the “Blocked Email Addresses” thing will work effectively as spammers always change their email addresses.
I agree with some of the other users. Yahoo should allow blocking of IP addresses. Blocking email addresses is useless since they are forged anyway.
blocked addresses work great, but we need more than 500 entry spaces. How about 2,000?
hi………………….
Yahoo and other e-mail providers could/should have global filters that would:
a) limit #emails sent/received from any given address within a given time frame (unless the sender is on a verified ‘whitelist’ like yahoo, microsoft, symantec, etc),
b) require the subject to be present (rather than ‘none’),
c) limit the subject to having no more than 3 or 4 special characters,
d) and have some other simple checks (“You just wonn…”, Nigerian bank scams, etc)
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that would stop probably 50% of spam before it ever got to a personal mailbox.
Some of the global filters, etc., should be at the senders end of the problem … don’t let the spam into the internet to start with (or at least cut it off as soon as detectable).
If thousands & thousands of users report a site as a spammer, kill its ability to send e-mail.
I think the SPAM folder is pretty useless. At least one important email a day winds up there, even though the sender’s email address is in my address book. So I still need to look in the SPAM folder every day and see what’s there. Obviously, I delete almost all of them immediately, without opening them. But I’m still forced to read all those vile subject lines. They might as well go right to my regular inbox, since I still need to manually deal with them daily.