Remember this Post on How to Set Up the Email Filters on Yahoo! to Keep Spammers from Flooding the Mail box? http://tinyurl.com/yr6vqc (This is off the Uk Forum I Post on)

It was also good for the Latest Beta version of Yahoo!Mail
But a New mail box brings a new Spam issue The Yahoo! Chat is Tied into the MailBox Also Yahoo Groups and If you've seen the Random SpamBots In Chat and Malicious groups sending invites It get rather annoying!
But to get rid of it all, stop the Flow, also Stop any other Linked email Accounts getting Forwarded Emails from this Source (which is a Gaping hole in Security)Sounds Like a tall order
So where is the Stoptap? Open this link (Must be signed In) http://groups.yahoo.com/myprefs

Find the Edit link on the Right hand side on the Email addresses that is Linked in

Next Page there are 2 tick boxes marked...

quote:

Group Invitations
Allow group moderators to directly add me to their groups.
Allow group moderators to invite me to their groups.

By Default these are Both Ticked .TUT TUT!

Untick both boxes then Press the Save Changes button

NOTE Return to the Previous page and alter any other account if its Listed


Page should look like Mine when you are finished
And Its not really important There is a Bounced Notification Checker on the List (Not sure what it traps)

Here is the Layout of the page..

quote:

The email addresses below are listed in Account Info for ******. Unverified email addresses must be verified before you can use them. Please verify the addresses you want to use on Yahoo! Groups.

Email addresses Status Bounce history Allow Direct Adds Allow Invitations Options
********@***.com Normal Show History No No Edit
******@***.com Normal Show History No No Edit
******@yahoo.com Normal Show History No No Edit

The Items in Bold are set "Yes-Yes" by default
Show History - bounced item link/s
Cannot see any info of the "Status" line denotes

Thanks bedstor! I needed that!

chris