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Is Yahoo Email Directing Shop Offers to Spam Folder?

March 03, 2014 07:47PM
In a post by Flash, [www.mysteryshopforum.com] dated 5/2/08 and updated in Feb 2009, he stated:

"Do NOT use a yahoo.com email or an AOL email address for shopping. Apparently the 'spam filters' on these sites are eliminating many shop offers from making it through, even if you "entitle" them in your 'safe' lists. As of this time Gmail is probably the most troublefree provider."

My question: after 4 years, is anybody using Yahoo email getting and inordinate about of shop offers going to the Spam Folder?

I'm very comfortable with Yahoo, especially their disposable email addresses.
Definitely not going to AOL.

Thanks.
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March 03, 2014 07:57PM
I use two different email addresses for my mystery shopping - a Yahoo address linked to my Paypal account and a Gmail address. I check my spam box on both accounts, as I have seen email from MSC's go into both the Gmail and Yahoo spam folders.
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March 03, 2014 08:29PM
I rarely find a job offer has gone to spam and haven't heard back from any companies that my Yahoo address has caused any problems with my account.

BTW, Flash is a shewinking smiley

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March 03, 2014 08:49PM
A lot of that may have been sorted out by now, but for a long time MSPs asked that you NOT use Yahoo mail or AOL because of ongoing issues they had. I suspect that email filters with all email providers change over time. For a while the gmail ones seemed to be sending remote scheduler and editor emails that were sent to look as though they were from the MSP itself to my spam. But I don't have any reason to believe they were ever totally rejected by the filters and trashed without my getting an opportunity to see them. Recently I discovered that when I send out gang emails to family (8 recipients), a sister using Juno mail does not receive them at all, but if I send out two batches of 4 recipients, she does receive them. Obviously the email providers will not advertise what their filters will accept, send to spam or discard entirely or the spammers would simply adjust their sends to always arrive in your in box.
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March 04, 2014 09:48AM
I have a Yahoo e-mail. I make sure that I check the spam filter morning and evening. I get MSC mail in it every few days. I make sure that I click on the 'This is not Spam' button, to try to 'train' the filter. It seems to work. It hasn't been a problem. I'd recommend that people use an e-mail address that's just dedicated to mystery shopping. That way, it won't start out with a spam problem, and it'll be really easy to check anything that's filtered out.
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March 04, 2014 03:11PM
I have a yahoo email a/c but don't use it for this. I'm using att.net (my provider) I get everything it seems. smiling smiley
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April 01, 2014 07:28PM
I use Yahoo! mail and haven't had much trouble. I always go through my spam folder just in case before deleting them permanently. I have noticed that if you delete many emails from the same sender without reading them they will go to spam.
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April 17, 2014 03:54PM
I had Yahoo up until this year without many problems. Occasionally I would find email offers deposited into the Spam folder, but I didn't have issue with it. They were few and far between, but when Yahoo started marking/depositing email offers and assignments from email addresses in my address book INTO THE TRASH (without me having read them), I said.... well a few things, but NO was the only printable one.
I check the Spam folder as often as I check my inbox, but it never occurred to me to check the Trash folder! Fortunately the schedulers called me to find out why I hadn't responded.
So I switched to gmail.
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April 19, 2014 01:47PM
I use a Yahoo email account almost exclusively for my shops, and have for years. A few shop offers go to Spam, so I try to remember to check it once a week or so, weed out and send any to my Inbox. Expert Solutions and Cori prior, have always had a warning against Yahoo, yet their email has always been delivered without problem.

I have other email accounts for different purposes, one of which is Gmail. Not long ago, my Yahoo and Gmail accounts were hacked. My computers have always been scheduled to automatically scan for viruses, but it happened nevertheless. No items were ever found or even quarantined. Was a pain in the neck. I changed passwords to both accounts, not once but twice over a month or so.
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