How do I get rid of garbage e-mails, ie . pharmacy ads advertising viagra products, etc?

Question

Products for men, etc. I delete these without opening them. as soon as i get them but I still keep getting them. What do i have to do for this certain person to get the message. Do you not have someone checking garbage e-mails like this I'm seriously thinking of cancelling Yahoo.

Answer 1

Set the spam filter settings for your e-mail account and this type trash will go to a spam folder ans be automatically deleted. It will not matter as spammers send junk to all e-mail accounts, so setting your e-mail filters are important, you can also check the box next to one of these type e-mails and then click spam and it will remove the e-mail.

Answer 2

If you are receiving frequent spam e-mails, I would suggest that you mark them as "Spam", rather than deleting them, as simply deleting them won't stop them from coming to your inbox.



Also, perhaps you should create a different e-mail address, which you could use for signing up for services or websites that may end up sending you spam e-mails.



Yahoo! Mail actually enables you have two e-mail addresses on one account, so that e-mails from both addresses will be sent to the same inbox.



If you'd like to enable this feature, you can do so by going to your e-mail account's options and then by clicking on the "Accounts" link, located on the left side of the page. From there, you should click on the "Yahoo! Extra Mail Address, which is located under the "Accounts" section, where you should be able to create an extra Yahoo! Mail address.



Good luck and I hope I helped you!

Answer 3

Who is supposed to get what message? You're blaming Yahoo for a problem that is shared by everyone who ever had email? Here's what I do. It's called "whitelisting." It's the only way to ensure that you never get spam. It is a bit of work to set up, and can be a pain for any friends you overlook, but it's worth it. These instructions are for GMail. You can do the same thing with Outlook, but other than GMail, I am not aware of any free e-mail provider with the proper features:



First, choose a password. The purpose of the password will become clear later. For this example, I'll use the password, "whitelist".



Second, set up a second gmail account. For this example, we will suppose that this second account is "[e-mail]".



SET UP THIS FILTER IN GMAIL

From: -([e-mail] OR [e-mail] OR myemployer.com OR mychurch.org OR .edu OR .gov)

Subject: -(whitelist)

Action: Skip Inbox, Forward it to [e-mail], Delete it.



SET UP THIS "VACATION RESPONDER" IN ACCOUNT2

You are receiving this message because you have sent me an e-mail, but you are not on my whitelist. Your message to me was automatically deleted. If you believe that you should be on my whitelist, then send me an e-mail with the subject line, "whitelist" (without quotes). Regardless of the sender, I receive all e-mails whose subject is, "whitelist".



Now you will only receive e-mail from people (or domains) in your whitelist. If you've overlooked anybody, they can send you an e-mail titled, "whitelist", and you will get it. Then you'll have the option to add them to your filter, above. If you are expecting an e-mail that you don't get, then you can check Account2, where everything that's not on your whitelist goes.



HINTS

Putting mychurch.org into your filter will allow you to receive e-mail from anybody whose address ends in @mychurch.org.



Putting .gov into your filter will allow you to receive e-mails from any US government agency. Same goes for .edu. I've never received spam from .gov, .edu, or .mil



Here are some common domains you may want in your filter:



google.com (this isn't gmail.com. This will allow you to get e-mail message from the Google company)



amazon.com

newegg.com

yourbank.com

youremployer.com

youtube.com

anydomainyoucompletelytrust.com



Also, if you own your own domain, then it wouldn't hurt to add that.