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Originally Posted by Bamb0
Thank you Billy I realise this thread is on the fastmail sect but it isnt only happening on fastmail....
My friend on AOL does have me in her address book and I think my dad does I dunno.....
This just started happening a few months ago....... (Anytime I email my dad with an http:// link it goes to spam (ANY LINK))
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Have you tried testing this yourself? I tried this with my Yahoo test account and I can't duplicate your problem. I sent several test messages containing a link to this forum
http://www.emaildiscussions.com and they all appeared in my Yahoo inbox.
I assume you had your dad go to the Settings area in his Yahoo email and check the blocked addresses and filters. If not, he needs to read the Yahoo email help on spam filtering.
Here is a test you dad can do: Send a message from his Yahoo account to himself. Use "Test" for the subject and "http://yahoo.com" for the message body. After sending that email to himself, it should show up in his inbox within a few minutes (Yahoo is often rather slow). When I try this, the message shows up in my Yahoo email inbox. If your theory is correct (all messages with a URL are treated as spam) he can easily see if this is true. It's possible that he set up a filter so that all messages with the string "http:" are filed to spam.
IMHO, Yahoo and AOL are troublesome email systems. They have historically been known for being a target for spammers (both sending and receiving at that domain). But this is the Fastmail forum, so you need to either contact Yahoo and AOL for assistance or post messages in the general email support forum here at EMD if you want Yahoo and AOL users to respond.
Bill (my name is NOT Billy
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