Before I start, I’m not sure whether to put this in General Questions or here. I’m trying for here, but if an administrator wants to move it, it’s fine by me.
What’s up with this? Sometime’s I get a little bored with Yahoo and forward my mail to my second favorite, Excite.com. I decided to do this today. I went to Options and the whole POP/Forward bit and typed in my excite mail address and the screen came up at the top it said this:
Yeah, like it’s unfortunate to them. Anywho, I tried it with Hotmail, as a test. It said the same thing. Are they waging war with other web e-mail providers? Has anyone else noticed this?
It would guess that it has something to do with spam. A lot of these email sites have filetrs that block masses of incoming mail, especially from free email services. It’s just a guess though.
That would be my guess as well. I forward my Yahoo mail to my Earthlink email, and I’ve never had a problem. However, Yahoo is kind of tough on spam, for some reason, or at least things it considers to be spammish. I’ve posted on Yahoo message boards and included a URL, but when I click the “Post” button, a message tells me about their spam policy. And yet if I post a Yahoo URL, it’s ok. So it might just be an extension of that thinking.
I think Tretiak had a good guess. To use mail forwarding, or to be able to read your mail with a third-party e-mail program (e.g. Eudora), you have to sign up for Yahoo! Delivers:
<<Yahoo! Mail offers forwarding as a free feature exclusively for Yahoo! Delivers members. If you agreed to receive special offers in your mailbox when you registered for Yahoo! Mail, you are automatically a member of Yahoo! Delivers.>>
If excite were blocking the messages from “Yahoo! Delivers”, then Yahoo! presumably would not want to let you forward to excite mailboxes.