Whenever I post something on craigslist I receive anywhere from 5 to 30 spam emails about something my post has nothing to do with. Most of these emails come from a Yahoo email address. How do I get their email addresses cancelled?
Sorry, but spam is a fact of internet life. There is nothing yahoo will do about yahoo email addresses or addresses of any other email service. Best you can do is to SPAM those messages so they do not go in to your inbox. Craiglists is one of many sites that promote spam. chenging your email address usually does not help because sooner or later the spam starts again. There are so many ways to promote spam it would take too long to mention them here. Enter WHAT PROMOTES SPAM IN EMAILS in your web browser to bring up web sites that give you all the info you need.
Usually just clicking on SPAM when you receive the message will direct it to your SPAM FOLDER and any subsequent emails from this person will go there…if that doesn’t work try below….
If you are using yahoo classic OR all new mail…..
Go to "Options" It is above your email
Click on "Mail Options"(More options…if in All New Mail)
Click on SPAM
Enter the address you want to block
Click on “Add"…then go above and click on SAVE CHANGES.
On occasion the sender changes their name BEFORE @ so block that DOMAIN the following way…
If you are receiving several emails from the same domain, but various ID’s, the easiest way to stop them is to enter the domain into your "Blocked Addresses".
In Yahoo! mail, to block the senders domain (hotmail.com):
◘ Click on "Options, upper right corner of mail page".
◘ Then "Mail Options".
◘ Click on "Spam" from the list on the left.
◘ In the "Add a blocked address" box, enter the domain (only the part of the email address AFTER @, do not include @). Note: I have recently seen where you should have the @ included…try them both.
◘ Click the "Add" button.
Now, any email from that domain, no matter what ID is used to send it, will be blocked.
FINALLY…do not forget to click on SAVE CHANGES at the top of the page……
NOTE: there is a limit of 500 addresses in the Block Address box. There may come a time where you have to go in to this box and delete some.
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In addition you can use your FILTERS to send them to trash.
…..click on OPTIONS…MAIL OPTIONS…go to the left side and click on FILTERS…once in click on CREATE OR EDIT FILTERS…then click on ADD…place the site in the box and click on ADD FILTERS..NOTE; this was the only way I could get rid of Yahoo!groups..
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