Yahoo Mail Plus

AddressGuard

Disposable Email Addresses

I seem to have discovered the following bug:

Mail is not delivered to the correct folders reliably.

Yahoo advertises AddressGuard as a way to allow you to create Disposable Email Addresses and to sort mail into different folders depending on which address it came in on. Very useful!

Around May 2010, Yahoo made some changes to the way AddressGuard works, and some functionality was intentionally removed (i.e., the ability to configure different filters for different disposable addresses). But they supposedly have kept the functionality to sort mail into different folders according to which disposable address was used. While they have kept this functionality, it is no longer 100% reliable.

For more details, see:

- First response from Yahoo Customer Care

- More detailed bug report from me

- Second response from Yahoo Customer Care

- My June 11 message to Product Management (new!)

- Post to comp.mail.misc from me (text version)

- Same post to cnet.com

- June 17 response to my cnet post from another user (new!)

- Yahoo Buzz: see user comments with additional issues

- Yahoo Groups: Y-Mail: ALERT: Yahoo! Mail Plus subscribers - Yahoo! Disposable Email Addres

- Yahoo Groups: Y-Mail: Disposable email not going to designated folder

- Yahoo Groups: Y-Mail: Disposable Email Addresses: A Simple Test Case (new!)

- Yahoo Answers: Question from a UK user

- Yahoo Answers: Another user complains of problem with folder delivery

- Discussion on EmailDiscussions.com

- TechCrunch article

- Blogspot article

- ReadersZone article

- Wordpress article

- Internet Techies article

- Cnet.com: spam increase on Yahoo (could be Facebook-related)

If anyone has any related experiences or comments to share, please contact me. Thanks.