Solve : Email Overload?

1.	Solve : Email Overload?
Answer» A friend called last night to complain that his Yahoo Mail inbox was being stuffed with hundreds of emails a day. Apparently these are legitimate. Most are ads from well known sources (Costco, JC Penney, AT&T ETC). Aside from the one to enlarge his CENSORED, there are none from dubious pharmaceutical companies and no porn. I mentioned that the emails are not physically present on his PC and would not impact his computer. I suggested he call Yahoo and/or keep deleting them as they arrived. Has ANYONE encountered something similar? Anyone have a solution? My primary Gmail account suffers from about 20 spam messages a day. Some are ads, some are company ads, and some are naughty ads. I changed a setting in Gmail to send the spam DIRECTLY to the trash.Thanks for the reply. The problem is these emails are not classified as spam, look legitimate and end up in his inbox. I should also mention that his account is 10 YEARS old and that this just started on Sunday. Quote from: Sidewinder on February 03, 2009, 05:51:24 AM A friend called last night to complain that his Yahoo Mail inbox was being stuffed with hundreds of emails a day. Apparently these are legitimate. Most are ads from well known sources (Costco, JC Penney, AT&T etc). Quote from: Sidewinder on February 03, 2009, 06:36:41 AM The problem is these emails are not classified as spam, look legitimate and end up in his inbox. I should also mention that his account is 10 years old and that this just started on Sunday. This just doesn't make sense. This email is legitimate but he's just now getting hundreds of emails a day. Quote from: soybean on February 03, 2009, 10:25:07 AM This just doesn't make sense. This email is legitimate but he's just now getting hundreds of emails a day. Of course it doesn't make sense. That's why I posted the problem. For ten years all he got was the usual assortment of spam, porn and some legitimate email. Now there is a sudden flood of emails coming from legitimate sources. After talking to him today, I found out that he can delete only one email at a time and the select all checkbox on the Yahoo Mail page does not work. I still think it is a Yahoo problem, but I thought I'd run it by the members here. He doesn't have his email listed anywhere or given it out, has he? What about subscribing to websites?

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A friend called last night to complain that his Yahoo Mail inbox was being stuffed with hundreds of emails a day. Apparently these are legitimate. Most are ads from well known sources (Costco, JC Penney, AT&T ETC). Aside from the one to enlarge his *CENSORED*, there are none from dubious pharmaceutical companies and no porn.

I mentioned that the emails are not physically present on his PC and would not impact his computer. I suggested he call Yahoo and/or keep deleting them as they arrived.

Has ANYONE encountered something similar? Anyone have a solution?

My primary Gmail account suffers from about 20 spam messages a day.
Some are ads, some are company ads, and some are naughty ads.

I changed a setting in Gmail to send the spam DIRECTLY to the trash.Thanks for the reply.

The problem is these emails are not classified as spam, look legitimate and end up in his inbox.

I should also mention that his account is 10 YEARS old and that this just started on Sunday.

Quote from: Sidewinder on February 03, 2009, 05:51:24 AM

A friend called last night to complain that his Yahoo Mail inbox was being stuffed with hundreds of emails a day. Apparently these are legitimate. Most are ads from well known sources (Costco, JC Penney, AT&T etc).

Quote from: Sidewinder on February 03, 2009, 06:36:41 AM

The problem is these emails are not classified as spam, look legitimate and end up in his inbox.

I should also mention that his account is 10 years old and that this just started on Sunday.

This just doesn't make sense. This email is legitimate but he's just now getting hundreds of emails a day. Quote from: soybean on February 03, 2009, 10:25:07 AM

This just doesn't make sense. This email is legitimate but he's just now getting hundreds of emails a day.

Of course it doesn't make sense. That's why I posted the problem. For ten years all he got was the usual assortment of spam, porn and some legitimate email. Now there is a sudden flood of emails coming from legitimate sources.

After talking to him today, I found out that he can delete only one email at a time and the select all checkbox on the Yahoo Mail page does not work.

I still think it is a Yahoo problem, but I thought I'd run it by the members here.

He doesn't have his email listed anywhere or given it out, has he? What about subscribing to websites?

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