How to reconfigure Yahoo mail in Outlook 2003?

My Outlook 2003 and Yahoo Mail Spam problem: WTF?

• Ok Answerers, I've got a tricky one for you. The tech support folks at Yahoo keep sending me cookie-cutter responses to my question, so you're my only hope. I'm using Yahoo's Business Mail (associated with my domain), and accessing it via POP3 with Outlook 2003. When I check the mail using the web client, I get very little spam. However, when I check with Outlook, something really strange happens: On send/receive, I get precisely 72 pieces of Spam. They seem to be of the SMTP error type associated with the Sober virus. If I close Outlook and come back a day later, refresh my email, boom...another 72 pieces of Spam. It only happens when I do send/receive. The spam gets properly sorted to the junk mail folder, but I am constantly deleting tens of thousands of items from it after a day of using Outlook. I've run several virus and adware programs and found nothing. Any advice?

• Answer:

  Sorry you are having trouble with this Todd. There are a couple things we can try for this issue. First, try setting your POP options to "don't pop spam". Instructions for changing this setting can be found at http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/smallbusiness/bizmail/spamguard/spamguard-20.html. If you are still having an issue with these messages coming in, try setting up a rule in Outlook. Using rules you can tell Outlook to automatically filter these messages to your spam folder or even your trash folder. If you are still having an issue please contact us at http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/contactus/.