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Yahoo! POP and Filters -- Why are filtered messages not included in POP email delivery?
I did find this question posted before, and the answer given was insufficient. The answer stated that filters were client specific, and don't translate from web-mail to an email client. No kidding. The "best answer" missed the point.
The problem is why do messages filtered not forward, and only messages that physically land in the inbox do. Shouldn't all messages be delivered to POP and Webmail, and *then* the various programs go to work filtering the messages they receive. It is almost like the Yahoo (web) filtering happens at the wrong point in the process, which means I get to choose between an organized web-mail environment, or manually hand-delivering folders worth of emails to my POP client (and for that matter my blackberry).
Anyone have an idea?
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
I'll give this a shot since I am a quality engineer with web applications. I do not know how the Yahoo email system works and I'm sure it was a project team decision on the workflow. I know it's technically possible to filter messages before sending them. I have a feeling the project team decided to choose a workflow of how most people would use it the system when they are also using POP. I also have a feeling the filters are applied during the login process when you access http://mail.yahoo.com./ So if you do not login using the web, they will remain in the inbox on the server. This is how I see it. When a client pop messages, users want to see their emails in their local email client (i.e. Thunderbird, Outlook, etc). They figured that those users will be using the client most of the time and use the web version occasionally.
And if your question is when you pop using a Blackberry or Outlook, why aren't they being delivered to the client's folder? That would be a client filter setup since those folders might not exist.
I hope this helps.
