After the latest update to SpamSieve 3.1.3, I’ve been getting deluged by SPAM from my Yahoo! Mail account. It’s only Yahoo!, and I didn’t change a thing in Mail, Yahoo!, or anywhere else (at least not intentionally).
Has anyone else seen this?
Did Yahoo make a change that broke something?
Which folder are they going to in Mail? What does SpamSieve’s Log window say about them?
The Log window shows all these SPAM emails as Predicted Good, followed immediately by Trained Good (Auto). Note that the Trained Good (Auto) is something new in my logs; it started on June 2 (which is when I applied the update to SpamSieve). Prior to that, there were only one or two, here and there. Now every other message is showing Trained Good (Auto).
I previously set up my Yahoo according to your How-To article from ~2022. My Junk Mailbox is set to Bulk in Settings/Accounts on my Mac. When I check in Yahoo Mail, there is no ability to set “Inbox” (either by dropdown selector or by typing it in manually) - so the Choose A Folder to Move to field is blank.
This is normal, and we have not changed how it works.
If you need help understanding why SpamSieve is predicting these messages to be good, please use the Save Diagnostic Report command in the Help menu and send me the report file, as described here.
That is good.
If you look in the list of Yahoo filters, does it say it’s moving the messages to Inbox? If you had set this up before and not touched it, it should be unchanged. Otherwise, you should be able to type Inbox in the text field even if you can’t choose it from the menu.
It was the Inbox setting in Yahoo. It took a few tries to get it to stick, but it looks like it’s good now . Thanks Michael.
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The same problem started a few days ago with Yahoo Mail. SpamSieve is not filtering spam with Yahoo mail. I followed the instructions to add the “Turn off spam filter” condition to Yahoo but it did not let me to add “Inbox” by typing as a folder and the drop down choices had only “Archive” and “Trash”. I retried several times as @jrgarrigues suggested but Yahoo returned “Failed creating Inbox folder”. Any thoughts?
Honestly, I don’t know what finally made my Yahoo! account finally accept the Inbox entry. I tried a bunch of stuff. However, it seems like accessing Yahoo! with a browser that I don’t normally use might have been part of the trick (I normally use Arc browser and it tends to ‘block’ a lot of stuff for me…).
I don’t know why that wouldn’t work, but if you are unable to disable Yahoo’s server spam filter, you could instead set SpamSieve to refilter the messages that Yahoo moves to Junk.