Why Do Emails in Yahoo Mail Go to Spam?

Yahoo Mail employs a sophisticated spam filter, just like many other popular email services, which evaluates all incoming messages to assess their legitimacy based on senders, content, and meta data.

Even though the spam filter is quite sophisticated, errors sometimes occur, and incorrect messages are sent to the Yahoo spam box. There are several reasons why this may occur. For instance, the sender could have misconfigured their email server or have included an attachment that raises suspicions.

Thankfully, it is possible to recover incorrectly designated emails from the Yahoo garbage folder and stop Yahoo emails from ever again being categorized as spam.

Mark emails in Yahoo as not spam

It's really easy to figure out how to prevent emails in Yahoo Mail from being marked as spam:

desktop

In the desktop version of Yahoo Mail, to flag emails as not spam:

• Log in to your Yahoo Mail inbox.

• Go to the spam folder.

• Select the messages you want to mark as not spam.

• Click the Not Spam button.

Mobile

In the Yahoo Mail mobile app, to flag emails as not spam mail:

• Open the Yahoo Mail app.

• Tap on the Inbox icon located in the bottom-left part of your screen.

• Go to the spam folder.

• Select the messages you want to mark as not spam by tapping the icons next to them.

• Tap the Not Spam button located in the bottom-right part of your screen.

Regretfully, there's no assurance that just designating an email as not spam once would prevent identical communications from popping up in the spam folder in the future.

Add Them to Your Contact List to Stop Emails from Turning Over Spam on Yahoo

It is advised that you take additional care to include the individuals you trust and speak with often on your contact list in order to guarantee that genuine communications won't wind up in the spam bin.

Open the messages from each contact, click the three horizontal dots, and choose Add Sender to Contacts. This will add that contact to your list of contacts. You may also import contacts from Gmail, Outlook, and AOL by going to Settings > Contacts.

Though there's no 100% certainty that emails from contacts on your list won't be tagged as spam, it shouldn't happen. To avoid any uncertainty, you should learn how to set up a rule in Yahoo Mail to automatically forward incoming messages to the appropriate folder.

It is advisable to utilize Clean Email to establish filters if the folder you want to transfer new emails to is your inbox. Yahoo Mail rules are not capable of moving messages to the inbox folder.

FAQs: Stop Emails from Turning Into Spam on Yahoo

Is it possible to have receiving emails automatically moved to a certain folder in Clean Email?

You may process up to 1,000 messages using Clean Email's free edition, unsubscribe from 25 subscriptions, and test the Auto Clean tool (along with a ton of other features) for 14 days without needing a credit card.

Can I set up a Yahoo filter rule to prevent emails from being categorized as spam?

While moving messages to the inbox is not an option with Yahoo Mail, filter rules may be created using the email client.

Can I use the built-in capabilities of the Yahoo mobile app to set filter rules?

Unfortunately, this feature is not supported by the Yahoo Mail mobile app. We advise using Clean Email if you want to set up Yahoo Mail rules on a mobile device.