Hi there, wonder whether you could help.....I keep receiving dodgy emails into my yahoo bulk mail folder. They tend to consist of mail msg delivery failure although I never sent a msg and also various attachments which the yahoo mail program detects as being viruses. I have looked on yahoo mail but unlike hotmail there seems to be no way of blocking those e-mail addresses. Incicdentally these people sending the e-mails appear to have hundreds of combinations of e-mail address eg 000@000.com or eg2 001@000.com or eg3 000@001.com and so on and so on. Is there anyway to stop these msgs? Thanks for your help
Sounds like someone/thing is spoofing your mail address. At least Yahoo! is picking up that they need to be filtered into your bulk mail folder. May be worth reporting it to them though.
ToryCynic
10-10-2004, 19:15
You mean like this?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/amhudson119/message1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/amhudson119/message23.jpg
It sends them to the trash every week - annoying - but i can live with it as everyone is peed off that I always used to change my E-Mail address! I'm on my fourth address since November - and intend to stick with this one! But yes i kust dug those up from the trash. When it has the names all the same (think it's known as a bot something) I.e alexcumberstone@yahoo.co.uk (made him up) it would also send to alexhumberstone, alexlumberstone basically where the letters are the same so alexhickson@yahoo would also get bulk for alexhuckson and so it goes on - yes, Ive informed Yahoo! they sent some silly automated message - but not changing as i have 600 messages in the dotted around my organised folders, and need to refer back to them.
Best option is use ISP mail - but i go away/and need/want to pick up mail from various places.
Alex
Originally posted by amhudson119
Best option is use ISP mail - but i go away/and need/want to pick up mail from various places.
Alex
Does your ISP not offer webmail?
If not, then either:
1) Change ISP
2) Buy a domain then get some hosting with webmail (this way, you need never change email addresses again - regardless of ISP)!