One thing is as Mikie said, you can unblock mail addresses. Another thing is your aversion to allowing them into your email account. I did it a few times because my ATT/Yahoo account couldn't handle the overload of mail I receive, and my mailbox simply broke down several times and had to be rebuilt. While there is a limit, I receive so much at once and constantly that things periodically went wrong. I let them in and they fixed it each time, and I didn't lose any mail in the process. You don't have to give them your password. They can create a temporary password and then you change it back when they are finished. Another thing is a Yahoo notice that was sent to their Plus users. I don't know if this applies to you because I don't know if you are a Plus subscriber and also have no idea if you use a third party email client like Outlook or IncrediMail or if your friends use one. You can decide for yourself if this is helpful to you at all. It really sounds more like the problem is on your friend's end. Ask her if she uses a third party client. *********** "We have important news for Yahoo! Mail Plus subscribers who are currently using our "POP" feature to send messages via external email clients such as Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Apple Mail, etc. (also called "SMTP access"). If you are accessing your Yahoo! Mail Plus exclusively through our Web interface, this message does not apply to you. Recently, we saw an unexpected increase in traffic through the servers dedicated to sending Yahoo! Mail Plus POP/SMTP messages. As a result, some users have experienced varying delays in the delivery of Yahoo! Mail messages sent via external email clients. We understand that this has been frustrating, and sincerely apologize for the inconvenience. What Has Changed? We have recently installed new servers to improve the performance of Yahoo! Mail Plus SMTP access. We have spent the last several days upgrading our hardware and restructuring the allocation of bandwidth for these servers. We are confident these changes will resolve the recent problems and increase our system's reliability. Because of these improvements, the settings for your outgoing mail server (SMTP) should change. What Do I Need to Do? To ensure that your email client is properly configured to access the new outgoing mail servers (SMTP), please follow these brief steps: Sign in to your Yahoo! Mail Plus account Go to "Mail Options" --> "POP access" --> "View POP settings" Review the updated settings in "POP Access Settings" If needed, set your email client to the new server: plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com Or follow these detailed instructions to update your Mail Plus SMTP settings: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/mailplus/pop/pop-35.html Please check the Yahoo! Mail Blog for frequent updates on this and many other Yahoo! Mail topics. We deeply value and appreciate your continued business. Thank you, John Kremer Vice President, Yahoo! Mail"

Someone asked this previously and as I recall no solution was found. I just asked google about this problem and found this solution: The Send Items.dbx file has reached the file size limit (2 GB) that the Outlook Express can handle it. After send the email, OE can't copy to Send Items folder the mail that was send, and the mail stills at the Outbox folder. All my steps to solve this problem: - To backup mails inside the Send Items folder, i create a new folder and copy all mails to this new folder; - Exit Outlook Express; - Delete Send Items.dbx file; - Start Outlook Express (OE Will create a new, and empty, Send Items.dbx file). It was the last post to this thread.

Always move them to your junk mail folder do not just delete them that is how your email program learns what is junk. Also it is not advised to click on the unsubscribe me because in actuality that lets them know it is a good valid email address and one that more spam can be sent to. In most email programs you can set up extra filters other than the standard ones that come programed in. That would be in the program settings and options. Hotmail has a sweep feature that if you get one email from a specific address you can tell it to send all future emails from them to a specific location including the junk mail folder. I don't know about aol. Of course the number one way that your email address gets on the spammers list is by being on forwarded emails, so always remove the names and addresses before forwarding and use the BCC feature to hide all email addresses on the email.

Just don't expect it or any other email system to effectively block all spam.