# Craigslist emails ending up in SPAM folder? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 10, 2016, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-emails-ending-up-in-spam-folder/762373 "2016-08-10T18:55:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Brodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@Brodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brodi)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2016, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-emails-ending-up-in-spam-folder/762373/1 "2016-08-10T18:55:40Z")
I sell livestock on Craigslist, mostly by phone or text. Every so often someone will email me and their emails always end up in the SPAM folder. Why? These are different people each time. Is it Craigslist or my computer? ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2016, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-emails-ending-up-in-spam-folder/762373/2 "2016-08-10T18:58:20Z")
> [@Brodi](#): > > Is it Craigslist or my computer? Yes. It is most certainly one or the other. :rolleyes: You haven’t told us enough. What email? Gmail or some other large-scale provider with their own SPAM filtering? Or a mail client like Thunderbird, which does its own (trainable) SPAM detection. ---
**Author:** ![Brodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@Brodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brodi)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-emails-ending-up-in-spam-folder/762373/3 "2016-08-10T19:42:44Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > Yes. > > It is most certainly one or the other. :rolleyes: > > You haven’t told us enough. What email? Gmail or some other large-scale provider with their own SPAM filtering? Or a mail client like Thunderbird, which does its own (trainable) SPAM detection. Yahoo. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-emails-ending-up-in-spam-folder/762373/4 "2016-08-11T16:14:45Z")
So, actually, it’s neither your computer nor Craigslist. If Yahoo’s own spam filters are binning legitimate emails, the only thing you can do is apparently click the “not spam” button on the emails in the spam folder that aren’t really spam, so that Yahoo’s filters can be trained. Slowly. ---
**Author:** ![Brodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@Brodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brodi)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-emails-ending-up-in-spam-folder/762373/5 "2016-08-11T17:01:47Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > So, actually, it’s neither your computer nor Craigslist. If Yahoo’s own spam filters are binning legitimate emails, the only thing you can do is apparently click the “not spam” button on the emails in the spam folder that aren’t really spam, so that Yahoo’s filters can be trained. Slowly. Thank you, I’ll start doing that. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2016, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-emails-ending-up-in-spam-folder/762373/6 "2016-08-11T17:04:13Z")
It should also be possible to set up a filter or a rule to override the usual spam filter result. Here’s one possible place to start: [How to Block Unwanted Emails From Senders in Yahoo Mail](http://email.about.com/cs/yahoomailtips/qt/et090103.htm) ---
**Author:** ![wlexxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5f9b8f/32.png) [@wlexxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wlexxx)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2017, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-emails-ending-up-in-spam-folder/762373/7 "2017-11-16T12:16:48Z")
> [@Brodi](#): > > Thank you, I’ll start doing that. it doesn’t work though, yahoo is doing this on purpose. wle ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2017, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/craigslist-emails-ending-up-in-spam-folder/762373/8 "2017-11-16T15:09:44Z")
> [@wlexxx](#): > > it doesn’t work though, yahoo is doing this on purpose. > wle You’re not the OP, so I can’t imagine how you could know anything about the outcome of **Brodi’s** situation, more than a year later. (Other, perhaps, than a generalized and completely evidence-free paranoia about Yahoo.) \*\*Brodi’s \*\*still around. (Low-frequency posting, but active as of today.) So maybe we can get a follow-up? Or not.