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How do I disable Y! Mssenger or messages from non-friends in Mail?

Every time I open Yahoo! Mail, I get 5 spam instant messages. Every time. Exactly the same number as though that's the limit Yahoo Mail can show so it just fills up the limit with spam.

How do I disable this? Either turning off Messenger if that's where they are coming from or limiting messages to those from friends.

Update:

Thanks Dodo but I can't manually submit 5 spam reports with in a long form every time I open my mail. I'd be filling out dozens a day!

There's no way to shut off access to my Mail?

Update 2:

Setting to invisible doesn't work (though it should - why can people I don't know contact me when I'm invisible?!) and certainly signing out of chat would work but that defeats the purpose.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Up at top of mail page by your name,where it says available...click on tiny arrow ..on drop down place a check mark by :invisible" or "signed out of chat"

    Source(s): yahoo help
  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    You can report this to Yahoo by filling this form

    http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/ab...

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