Today yahoo sent all of my myLot mail to the spam folder.

@GardenGerty (162838)
United States
October 12, 2008 8:57pm CST
Has anything like that happened to you lately? Yesterday, I did delete some old e-mails that I have had since May, but if it was going to do this to myLot notifications, why not Gather, as well? I also deleted some of them yesterday.I had been online very little today, but suddenly realized I had absolutely nothing from myLot today, and I knew someone had to be out there. So, did ya miss me? I did not know you had posted anything.
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• India
13 Oct 08
Yeah same problem here.
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@GardenGerty (162838)
• United States
14 Oct 08
Same solution: Add MyLot to your address book, white list, or contacts list.
• Singapore
13 Oct 08
YOu know what. YOu had yours in the spam folder. i did not even receive any mylot notifications for 2 days now. What's happening? I too use Yahoo! mail. I just received one informing me I received BR for a discussion but that was it. I had to check my discussions manually to find out if there are people who responded to my new discussion. Hmm! I did not change my profile recently, so really don;t know what's happening.
@GardenGerty (162838)
• United States
14 Oct 08
Sometime when I was in my first year, just when I started accumulating some friends, all my notifies mysteriously switched to "OFF". They did that for about a week. I kept turning them back "ON" and wrote to myLot. Maybe that is what has happened to you. Make sure your notifies are ON.
@sacmom (14192)
• United States
13 Oct 08
No, not lately, but I have had this happen to me before. One day, many months ago, I had stopped receiving mylot mail...that is until I looked in my spam folder. Low and behold there it was! So I made sure to add mylot to my contact list and it pretty much resolved the problem. Though after doing so a notification or two gets thrown in there every once in a while. This is why it is a good idea to check the spam folder, to make sure that something of importance doesn't land there, instead of your inbox.
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@GardenGerty (162838)
• United States
13 Oct 08
That is pretty much what usually happens to me. I know MyLot had been on my contact list, but when I looked last night, it was not, so I added it, again.
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@Hatley (163773)
• Garden Grove, California
13 Oct 08
hi gardengerty wow thats awful. I have well and sometimes it will rate some of my lot discussions as spam but it at least lets me see them, and rectify their mistake. talk about deleting things when I first started learning to use my computer I managed to move all my incoming mail to delete folder, then I hit delete and wondered duh where is my incoming mail wah I did manage to retrieve it from my trash bin however, but learned a lot about how and when and where to delete things. but were you able to retrieve all you mylot mail? I have got so I check my notifications then go on into mylot so I can see everything and find friends started, then todays top and hot, then maybe I might make a discussion.
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@GardenGerty (162838)
• United States
13 Oct 08
I went and sent three pages worth of myLot notifications and such to my inbox. I have both a trash folder and a spam folder. If I open first, it becomes just trash. I guess since I tossed some without opening them, Yahoo thought it was spam. I have gone in and dug through my trash, and my spam. I am glad neither is smelly.. I just cannot figure out why all the websites I deal with were not treated equally.
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
13 Oct 08
sure, you were missed. another person had said she hadn't got anything today to. maybe they did her the same way. this computer can do crazy things, that's for sure. hope it doesn't happen again. good night.
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@GardenGerty (162838)
• United States
13 Oct 08
I think I figured out why Yahoo thought it was all spam. I usually open things before deleting, but I did not last night. I deleted some without even opening. So that sent the message that MyLot was spam. Have a nice rest.
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• India
13 Oct 08
I do receive some in spam.Then i changed it to no spam and put them in the inbox.I did not know actual cause for that.I suppose sometime it does happen.Any way my inbox folder is filled with spam from other unknown sites which i converted them to spam and deleted few of those mail messages.
@GardenGerty (162838)
• United States
14 Oct 08
I set filters that keep out a lot of spam. I am going to have to remember how, and go upgrade them. Welcome to myLot.
@Thoroughrob (11742)
• United States
13 Oct 08
Mine sends all kinds of things to junkmail folder. I wonder what is up.
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@Thoroughrob (11742)
• United States
13 Oct 08
Yes, I am. I have to go through the folder once a day and check it. There are lots of things that should not go there and things that should don't.
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@GardenGerty (162838)
• United States
13 Oct 08
I think before I go to bed, I will re add MyLot to my contact list. Are you on Yahoo?
• United States
14 Oct 08
Spam - Spam & temperamental systems sux.
I hate that when that happens. I usually have to add the sending email to my addy list in order to prevent that.
@GardenGerty (162838)
• United States
14 Oct 08
I RE added mylot to my address book. It has been good for about a year, so this weekend it decided to take off. You are right, though. It has to be done.
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• United States
15 Oct 08
Anti-spam bots are just computers. You know what they say about computers. Tell one to jump off a cliff and it will do it hence computers don't have legs. * Spam filters also cannot tell which emails are legit either, so you have to enter addies you want coming in into a address book.
@checapricorn (16060)
• United States
14 Oct 08
[i]Hi Garden, It happens to me also and when I realize that some of my notifications were there, I don't delete all emails right away and today I have nothing in my inbox and have 100 spam and mostly notifications..LOL![/i]
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@GardenGerty (162838)
• United States
15 Oct 08
That is why it is good to add mylot to your contact list. And then re do it, if it comes off somehow.
@youless (112914)
• Guangzhou, China
14 Oct 08
I don't use Yahoo, I use Hotmail. In the past Hotmail ever deleted Mylot emails. So later I set it as the safe sender and this kind of things won't happen any more. A few days ago I replied to your discussion about whether you will give your books away. No wonder I can't see your comment there:) I love China
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@GardenGerty (162838)
• United States
15 Oct 08
I believe I did reply to everyone at that time. I remember that you posted, as you said that that sounded the same as Chinese for "losing" if I am not mistaken.
• United States
15 Oct 08
Of course we missed you. No I haven't lost any notifications that I know of. I did post a question in families about making Christmas presents. I need some ideas. Got any?
@GardenGerty (162838)
• United States
15 Oct 08
I will check out your discussion and see what kind of presents you need. I am getting in the mood. I may get struck with an inspiration that will suit us both.
@tikei18 (359)
• Philippines
13 Oct 08
Same here. Today I'm receiving spam from myLot, not in my inbox. My Yahoo Messenger is always open. It alerts me whenever I receive mails from myLot. But today I wonder why I haven't receiving any notification from myLot. I thought I just didn't saw when my yahoo messenger alert shows up. So checked my Email and there is no new message in my Inbox but there is new messages in my spam folder so I look at it and it's from myLot. Now I will not be alert, I have to check myself my Email.
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@GardenGerty (162838)
• United States
13 Oct 08
tikei, go to your e mail and make sure you put MyLot in your address book or contact folder. I guess I may have to redo this occasionally, because I had done this before.
@tikei18 (359)
• Philippines
14 Oct 08
It worked! Now I'm receiving mails from mylot in my Inbox. Thanks for teaching! Happy mylotting!
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@mimico (3617)
• Philippines
13 Oct 08
It happened to me recently as well but not with mylot! It's actually weird because I have never sent anything from that sender to my spam folder. Good thing yahoo keeps my spam mail longer than overnight. And good thing I looked as well!
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@GardenGerty (162838)
• United States
13 Oct 08
Make sure that whatever is going to spam that you want in your inbox you add to your contact list. This really took me by surprise.
@GardenGerty (162838)
• United States
31 Oct 08
I think I have my preferences set so that the spam folder empties every seven days.
• India
14 Oct 08
yes it may be a yahoo problem but not mylot's
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@GardenGerty (162838)
• United States
15 Oct 08
Nope, it seems myLot has other problems, from time to time.
• United States
13 Oct 08
I just got online, so I hope I didn't miss anything big. I haven't been using my Mylot email notifications for awhile. Mostly, I use the link for friend discussions or new discussions. Back when I relied on Yahoo to let me know about new discussions they were always putting my Mylot mail into the SPAM folder. Very annoying! Glad you're back!
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@GardenGerty (162838)
• United States
14 Oct 08
I have had this issue one other time. In two years. So it is not too bad. I will coninue to work from my inbox, mostly.
@saundyl (9783)
• Canada
13 Oct 08
That's weird. I've had it happen to one or two on occasion but for the most part mine filter to the mylot folder i created. Usually the ones that end up in spam are the you have a new message or alert ones or the someone asked to be your friend. The rest all seem to go to the right place. I've never checked to see if they come from a different ___@mylot.com email or of its just being flaky.
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@GardenGerty (162838)
• United States
14 Oct 08
We just periodically have flakiness. I believe the e mail address is the same.
@samijo719 (1052)
• United States
13 Oct 08
You are not alone! Mine too is going into my spam folder suddenly. It never did this before yesterday. I posted a few disscussions and was bummed when i checked my email and...no responses. So I'm on mylot later and go to the started section and see my posts do indeed have responses. I checked back in my email and there they were in spam. I don't know why it's doing it. I didn't change anything...
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@GardenGerty (162838)
• United States
14 Oct 08
It periodically changes itself. Not your fault. Just add myLot to your contacts list.I hope it helps.
• United Kingdom
13 Oct 08
Hi, this actually happened to me for the first time this morning and I don't know the reason for this. Otherwise, all my My Lot emails go into my inbox as usual. I hope that this is not going to create a potential problem as I absolutely love My Lot and hope that I can post here for many years to come. Andrew
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@GardenGerty (162838)
• United States
31 Oct 08
It seems like it happened to a lot of us at the same time. Hope you got it fixed.
@arunmails (3011)
• India
14 Oct 08
We don't give much importance to see the spam folder or spam messages.... so that we don't even open the spam folder.... simply we delete them without seeing.... so that most of the mylot messages that are sent to the yahoomail....were deleted... so better use the gmail for mylot messages.....
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@GardenGerty (162838)
• United States
15 Oct 08
My spam self deletes every week. I do not usually have to look. I do not have a g mail account, but I seem to have fixed my problem with Yahoo.
@cpersam (42)
• United States
13 Oct 08
yahoo is just terrible for their spam folders. I think someone had told me that the way their spam filters work is if one person marks it as spam it gets added to everyone's spam list. Which is why I stopped using yahoo mail. Things I needed were getting marked spam and things that were spam were ending up in my inbox.
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@GardenGerty (162838)
• United States
14 Oct 08
I generally do not have any trouble, and it may be something myLot changed that we cannot see that bumped us in Yahoo. I pretty much am sorted right most days.