Spam mails are annoying and frustrating too. You opened
your Yahoo mail account in the morning and it has been piled up with some
random mails. Mails which are of no use for you and keeping filling your inbox
are spam. These are promotional emails, subscription emails, newsletters and
sometimes phishing emails too in your Yahoo mailbox. Phishing mails are a
threat to your information, once you click on that email and they can snatch
your account information easily.
Yahoo also uses an automatic filter to avoid spamming;
in fact Yahoo says that they filter 4 messages with 1 delivered mail. In order
to avoid spam mails in your Yahoo mail account; you can block them or you can
set a filter to avoid any similar spam mails. You can customize these settings
from your Yahoo mail account.
Read more: How to Block an Email Address on Yahoo Mail
How to filter emails into spam
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First, go to Yahoo
sign in page and sign in using your Yahoo mail account.
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Then you need to
move up to the gear icon in the
upper-right corner of the account page and then select Settings from the drop-down list.
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Here you need to
find the Filters section and then click
on the Add button to set up a spam
email filter.
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Now enter a name for
the new spam filter in the Filter Name box. You will get a drop-down list where
you will conditions to define spam.
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And choose from
"contains," "begins with," "ends with" or "does not contain”; this will define a
criteria for spam mail. Here from the text fields next to the option, enter in
the words you want the filter to check and define spam.
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When you find that
the case of the word is also important, you need to check "Match case" so the filter will
search for only the lowercase or uppercase version of the spam word.
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Now you can choose
the folder where the filter will send messages those matches with the mentioned
filter or criteria and then click on the Save
button.
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When there would be
any mail in your inbox matches with the criteria will transfer to the spam
folder.
You can also use the “Spam” button
from your inbox. Whenever you receive any email, it already has a Spam button on the menu bar. You can
use is to transfer that mail to your Spam
folder. This is really helpful here when you will get the similar mail or from
the sender, it will directly move to spam folder.
