Ed said:
Using Outlook Express 6.0 and Yahoo mail.
Starting yesterday, email to myself goes into my Yahoo mail account, but
when I download it, it shows up in my Deleted folder instead of my Inbox.
Yes, only email from myself.
No, I don't have any Rules at all.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
And would that be for IMAP access to your Yahoo mailbox? If so, and since
the e-mail client is synchronizing its folders to the content in the
server-side folders, then perhaps the problem is filtering on the server
that detects e-mails that are sent to you also came from you and are
filtering them out (as suspect spam e-mails).
Send yourself a test e-mail. You are sending from yourself and to yourself.
Then unload your e-mail client. Now use the webmail interface to your
mailbox (up on the server). Did the test e-mail end up in the Inbox folder
or in the Deleted folder? If it is in the Deleted folder then your e-mail
client has nothing to do with it going there (because it wasn't even
running).
If the test e-mail shows up in the Deleted folder in the webmail interface
to your mailbox, see what happens when you put yourself in a safe sender or
whitelist filter defined up on the server. I don't remember if Yahoo Mail
includes a Safe Senders whitelist. Maybe it instead relies on entries in
your Contacts, so add yourself there.
Do you often send e-mails to yourself? Spammers will often specify the From
header is the same as the recipient's e-mail address knowing that most users
don't filter out themselves. However, many e-mail providers realize that
most "from me = to me" e-mails are spam.
