SPAM guard is on - and there's no way to turn it off!

Okay, I am a bit vague on HOW to do it, but what you want to do requires using IMAP settings. Basically, you simply pull all the e-mail off the server, and your app does all the mail processing.

settings are here: https://www.att.com/esupport/article.jsp?sid=KB424295&DPSLogout=true&_requestid=1560608

I hope this helps, and is what you are looking for.   Good luck.

OH, and obviously, you need a mail app capable of doing IMAP.

Even third party mail apps have an option to set junk mail filters. Just saying.

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@Tigereyze209 wrote:

Even third party mail apps have an option to set junk mail filters. Just saying.

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I think you entirely missed the point.  I want the SPAM to go to my third party mail app so I can filter it with that app.  I don't want to go to the web page just to see if AT&T filtered out something important.

I'm just saying.  😉

Uhm, okay, well, good luck with that, then....

Hope ya figure it out.

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@billko wrote:
I'm not letting this sink to the bottom. I use a third party client to read my mail because I don't want to use a browser to read my email, and now I have to check for SPAM through my browser anyway. Please have this looked at!

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What client are you using?  I use SeaMonkey (Thunderbird clone) and all the messages ATT/Yahoo places in the Spam folder online appear in the SeaMonkey Bulk Mail folder.

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@Tigereyze209 wrote:

Okay, I am a bit vague on HOW to do it, but what you want to do requires using IMAP settings. Basically, you simply pull all the e-mail off the server, and your app does all the mail processing.

settings are here: https://www.att.com/esupport/article.jsp?sid=KB424295&DPSLogout=true&_requestid=1560608

 

I hope this helps, and is what you are looking for.   Good luck.

 

OH, and obviously, you need a mail app capable of doing IMAP.

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Now THAT is interesting because the whole reason I forwarded my email to another account is because when AT&T first converted to Yahoo email, Yahoo did not have IMAP capabilities, and the account I was forwarding my email to does.  I had no idea that they actually have IMAP capabilities now!

Even though technically your suggestion didn't solve the real problem with the website, I am marking this a solved because you fixed the problem for me by showing me that I could avoid that whole mess in the first place.  I'm perfectly okay with that solution because then I can access my SPAM folder through my email app directly.

Thanks!

I still have the same problem and do not want to set up an IMAP client to pull in the contents of my Yahoo Spam folder.  Is there anything I can do that would result in the SPAM messages getting forwarded just like other messages?  The underlying problem is that Yahoo is marking things as SPAM which are legitimate, and I don't want to have to log into the Yahoo web interface just to check those messages periodically.

Thanks.

Dave

Pretty sarcastic. Definately unhelpful. This question is simple: "How to completely turn off Spamguard". Not how to reroute email, how imap works, what protocols are available through standard AT&T email services, whether mail is read online of offline, which client is being used, etc. Just "How to completely turn off Spamguard". And no, this hasn't been 'solved'.