Is Yahoo SPAM protection losing the war ?

No spam tool can prevent all spam, because spammers always find new ways to get into your mail account. The Yahoo spam tool also has a limit of 500 blocked addresses which forces you to delete older blocked addresses to make room for new ones once you reach the limit. There are other tools you might want to take a look at...

Check Iconix, once it is installed, it can easily identify whether a mail is Spam or comes from a trusted site. Mail services supported so far:

Yahoo!Mail

AT&T Yahoo! Mail

Gmail

Earthlink

AOL Webmail

MSN Hotmail

Windows Live Hotmail

Outlook 2003

Outlook Express 6.0

AIM Webmail

Not supported are other mail services and also not MAC and Linux.

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Another good tool is Mailwasher. Set up your email account(s) in MailWasher and hit the "Check Mail" button. It then downloads all new message headers and displays message details alongside each one (priority, subject, from, to, etc.).

Any email that MailWasher considers to be spam is highlighted for easy sorting.

Two checkboxes are located next to each message header: "Delete" and "Bounce". If you click "Delete" the email will be marked for deletion, click "Bounce" and the mail will be marked for bouncing - a fake "address not found" email will be sent to the sender.

Once you have decided what to bounce and delete, click "Process Mail" to get it done and your mail client launched for downloading all accepted emails.

MailWasher has a "blacklist" and a "friends list" to enter good and bad email addresses. Addresses in the blacklist are marked for deletion, and addresses in the friends list will be marked as okay.

Filters can be set to increase MailWasher's effectiveness. You can have email addressed to "undisclosed recipients" automatically deleted and bounced for example.

Note: the program is free but limited to one email account, and doesn't include Hotmail support.MW Pro supports multiple mail accounts.

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