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since may i noticed that i cannot receive any emails coming from yahoo thru my hotmail acct.
thanks
Yahoo and hotmail for that matter are exploited heavily for spammers. They are quite anonymous so spammers will use these accounts for from addresses. They may not have a yahoo account, but they offer better cover. I know that some places filter these accounts, and you might have that problem. To much spam from the yahoo addresses and system admins may cut them off.
Aggressive filtering to limit spam at the level of the ISP is becoming a problem lately...the major service providers have discovered that the public hates spam email and their spam filtering has become an important marketing point. Even some small hosts have begun to install a degree filtering on their mail servers.
To a degree, I sympathize with the effort. But just one "false positive" can wreak havoc on legitimate communications. This is not a long term solution to spam.
In March Yahoo! Mail installed a new spam filter. They created a new Bulk Mail folder for every e-mail account where Yahoo puts the suspected spam.
If you find a legitimate e-mail in the Bulk folder you just click "This is not spam" or something similar and you're set.
The problem is people don't know about the Bulk folder. Yesterday, a client found several old business e-mails in his Bulk folder. Boy, that cost me some real money.
If you are in business then get a regular email account with your ISP. You are then in a position to use your own choice of filters/software to attack spam
>> But just one "false positive" can wreak havoc on legitimate >>communications. This is not a long term solution to spam
Agree with that. Personally I use CloudMark to syphon off spam into a spam folder on my browser. I am then left with the "real" emails to read, and can quickly scan my Spam Folder each day for false positives.
Really business accounts should not be using Hotmail or Yahoo accounts for all sorts of reasons
The reality is that many independent sales people do.
the thing is its not even showing up in my bulk mail folder or my junk mail folder....
so how can they filter it if it doesnt reaches my email?
i regularly check my bulk and junk mail folder but still i cant find those corporate emails.....
ive checked with the sender and the email that was on the address was correct.
is it just the transmitting of data or something?
what do u guys think?
thanks again.....
There's also a more onerous possibility. The host for the mail server that's sending you the missing EMails could be on a list of SPAMmers that are published by anti-SPAM services. ISP's and mail hosting systems subscribe to these lists and automatically bounce all EMails originating from the banned domains. The service that hosts my sites has been running into this on and off for the past couple of years. All it takes is some rookie webmaster installs an old vulnerable copy of Matt's FormMail.pl script, a malicious SPAMmer hijacks the script for a couple of days and blasts the Net with millions of EMails and BAM! - our hosting company is suddenly on a banned list and all of the sites hosted by this company are unable to send EMails to certain domains who subscribe to this service. Its no fun for anybody involved.
I hope it hasn't happened to you.
