My SPAM no longer has a [Bulk] prefix when I download it to Outlook Express?
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For years I have been using Outlook Express to download my emails from Yahoo.co.uk. Recently I find that the [Bulk] prefix is no longer there, every now and then I get one or two, but most of the time it is just missing. I have checked the POP3 settings in My Yahoo and the [Bulk] option is set but it has just stopped working. This is a real nuisance as I am used to my SPAM being automatically moved to my OE Spam folder (using a mail rule, so every now and then I am accidentally opening a SPAM email. I have emailed Yahoo on this problem over a week ago. I apologise for any inconvenience this has caused you. Please be assured that we are aware of this problem and hope to have it fixed promptly. But they have done nothing else and my [Bulk] is still not working. Has anyone else found this problem?
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Answer:
Yes, I've just started noticing it. Very annoying. If your mail program can examine and filter based on mail headers other than "Subject:", there may be a workaround. I noticed that the three messages that showed up in my yahoo bulk folder but POP to me without the Subject: header [Bulk] prefix have an extra header that good messages don't: X-yahoofilteredbulk: 64.27.3.148 So if you can tell your mail program to send any message that has an X-yahoofilteredbulk: header to a special place (spam folder, or /dev/null) that should work. You don't want to filter on anything past the colon (":") in that line, it is just the IP address of the machine that sent the spam. Hope this helps, --Ken (and hopefully someone from yahoo is listening and will fix their POP servers)
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This has been happening to me since yesterday and it's extremely annoying. Going into the POP properties (which are now updated for the new email interface - maybe that's the problem?) it says [Bulk] will be added to downloaded spam emails, but it is not happening.
I have the same problem and I have just find out that in Yahoo's Mail Options/More Options/POP Access you can choose not to download spam when accessing via POP (at least it is so in the Spanish version of Yahoo Mail).
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