What is Spam(In yahoo mail)?

Spam is any message or posting, regardless of its content, that is sent to multiple recipients who have not specifically requested the mail. It can also be multiple postings of the same message to Newsgroups or list servers that are not related to the topic of the message. Other common terms on the Internet are UCE (Unsolicited Commercial Email) and UBE (Unsolicited Bulk Email) which are the same as what is typically called spam.

The individuals who send spam are typically people who have purchased or harvested a list of email addresses. And they send messages from numerous different addresses to all areas of the Web. (*We do not give away or sell the information you provide to us. This includes, but is not limited to, anyone who is interested in sending unsolicited mail to your account.)

All mail originating from Yahoo! has an originating IP address embedded in the full address headers which helps to identify the sender of the email and track the individual to his or her service provider. Individuals who use a Yahoo! address in their spam are forging mail headers if the originating IP line is absent in the spam you receive.

OR

Spam is any message that's sent to multiple recipients who haven't specifically requested the message. In other words, spam is crap.

Spammers typically purchase or harvest a list of email addresses. They send messages from numerous different addresses to all areas of the Web. These messages tend to be "forged," to hide who actually sent them.

if you marked a message as spam by mistake. What should you do?

Don't worry! This is easy to fix. When you clicked "Spam," the message went into your Spam folder.

1. Open the Spam folder by clicking it in the folder list on the left of the page
2. Click the message that you marked spam by mistake.
3. Click the "Not Spam" button along the top of the window.


How long do messages stay in my Spam Folder? Can I control this?

Yes. Here’s how you do it:

* Click Options in the upper-right corner of your Mail page.
* Click Spam from the list on the left.
* In the “SpamGuard” section, after the line “Empty Spam folder”, you can specify how often you’d like us to empty your Spam folder by selecting from the pull-down menu. We do it automatically once a month, but you can select two weeks, one week…or immediately!
* Above your spam options, click Save Changes.