Ymail messages tagged as spam by some filters

denverharless · 13 Jul 2008, 01:29 PM

Messages that I've sent from my new Ymail account are sometimes winding up in people's spam folder. Is anyone else experiencing this? Testing it for myself, I have found that if I use Rich Text formatting, the message is more likely to end up in a spam folder on hotmail and aol mail. What's weird is that if I send the exact same message from an older Yahoo account, the message does not go to the spam folder when it reaches the AOL account. It's only when the message is from my Ymail account. If I switch the message to Plain Text, then it goes through to the AOL Inbox.

Does anyone have any idea why AOL would send my Ymail messages into the Spam folder, but not if it comes from Yahoo.com?

denverharless · 13 Jul 2008, 02:15 PM

Okay, so I figured out that AOL was letting my message through from my Yahoo account because I had that account in my contact list. When I deleted the contact and resent the message, it went to the spam folder as well. So, the question I have is why are rich text formatted emails from Yahoo going to my spam folder on AOL?

Here's a curious wrinkle. If I send the exact same message from my Fastmail account, with the From address changed to my ymail address, then AOL puts it in the INBOX. It seems like a "forged" header would be even more likely to go to the spam folder, but I guess not. Quite the contrary. Maybe it's just a prejudice against Yahoo's servers.

robbin · 14 Jul 2008, 12:00 AM

Funny enough i came across the same issue, email sent from ymail.com domain as well as rocketmail.com are marked as spam by walla.com, their response was that the email contains spam features god only knows what that is...

robbin · 15 Jul 2008, 07:41 AM

I just got response back from walla.com, apparently its yahoo specific type of character encoding that sends some spam filters off, they have fixed this issue and now ymail goes throw OK.

13 Jul 2008, 01:29 PM	#1
denverharless Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Denver Posts: 505	Ymail messages tagged as spam by some filters Messages that I've sent from my new Ymail account are sometimes winding up in people's spam folder. Is anyone else experiencing this? Testing it for myself, I have found that if I use Rich Text formatting, the message is more likely to end up in a spam folder on hotmail and aol mail. What's weird is that if I send the exact same message from an older Yahoo account, the message does not go to the spam folder when it reaches the AOL account. It's only when the message is from my Ymail account. If I switch the message to Plain Text, then it goes through to the AOL Inbox. Does anyone have any idea why AOL would send my Ymail messages into the Spam folder, but not if it comes from Yahoo.com?

13 Jul 2008, 02:15 PM	#2
denverharless Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Denver Posts: 505	Contacts Okay, so I figured out that AOL was letting my message through from my Yahoo account because I had that account in my contact list. When I deleted the contact and resent the message, it went to the spam folder as well. So, the question I have is why are rich text formatted emails from Yahoo going to my spam folder on AOL? Here's a curious wrinkle. If I send the exact same message from my Fastmail account, with the From address changed to my ymail address, then AOL puts it in the INBOX. It seems like a "forged" header would be even more likely to go to the spam folder, but I guess not. Quite the contrary. Maybe it's just a prejudice against Yahoo's servers.

14 Jul 2008, 12:00 AM	#3
robbin Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 5	Same issue here Funny enough i came across the same issue, email sent from ymail.com domain as well as rocketmail.com are marked as spam by walla.com, their response was that the email contains spam features god only knows what that is...

15 Jul 2008, 07:41 AM	#4
robbin Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 5	I just got response back from walla.com, apparently its yahoo specific type of character encoding that sends some spam filters off, they have fixed this issue and now ymail goes throw OK.