Is Yahoo spammy

[Raniyah]

I have a Yahoo email account I've been using for several years. I still use it but seems to be too spammy. I receive a vast number of unknown emails. Do your accounts (if still active) also behave like this?

 

[ocnbrze]

that's like any email client.

 

[Milo Willamson]

Really spammy, had two for several years, decided to break up with them around in 2018.

 

[Logan James]

No from my end.

 

[Raniyah]

I receive a number of emails saying fund transferring, donations, and many more related banks and finance. Really bothersome. Both my inbox and spam box are getting full of these junk emails

 

[Milo Willamson]

Go with gmail, much better at blocking spams

 

[bambaleilo]

Me too. How do these people get your email though? Mine it's brand new and I have a lot of spam messages.

 

[Milo Willamson]

Me too. How do these people get your email though? Mine it's brand new and I have a lot of spam messages.

Yeah when I first got my yahoo email, several years ago, it was spamming too, just do not give into it.

 

[Davdi]

I find yahoo in the UK (yahoo.co.uk) is good at blocking spam, I do get plenty of emails from things I signed up for ages ago, and not all respect the 'unsubscribe' link

 

[MoodyBlues]

I know that Yahoo mail has been cracked numerous times. Therefore, legitimate accounts are now [apparently, but not really] sending spam. My son-in-law's ancient Yahoo account is one of them! I'll occasionally get mail ostensibly from him, but it's just garbage.

But I have no idea if using Yahoo for mail yourself means that you'll get a lot of spam. If you do, can't you filter it? I use a real mail client for all my mail, including gmail, and never use webmail for anything. In my mail client, I can filter like crazy--and I do! If you can do that with Yahoo, I'd recommend trying it.

 

[Davdi]

Yahoo does let you mark things as spam, and they get put in a spam folder from then on.

 

[nickdalzell]

Using Yahoo! Mail today is like relying on AOL Dial-up today. Why? Work still uses it and it's infuriating.

I prefer using a modern account with either Outlook or Thunderbird, but that's me. Yahoo is aging like K-mart and might not be around for much longer anyway. Time to at least be prepared for that. The data breaches they had over the last few years don't instill confidence in them.