bitful

Since last Tuesday morning, every message I send myself (from my Yahoo! Mail account to the same account) goes straight into the spam folder. Does anybody know why that is? Has Yahoo! changed some settings?

I can send myself messages from work, or from my other email accounts, but anything from my Yahoo! Mail address is treated like the lowest scamming scum.

Am I being stupid and it is something very obvious that I am failing to see? This is important to me, because I often send myself messages as reminders to do something. A set of rules then places them in folders and I process them following the GTD approach (which, for those who know me well, could be short for 'Gay Tea Dance' but instead stands for David Allen's Getting Things Done, the one solution that stopped email bottlenecks and almost rids me of painful procrastination.

I have selected my messages and clicked on 'This is not spam', and created a filter that moves mail from myself into the Inbox, but apart from it not being an ideal solution, it also does not seem to work.

So should I finally switch to Gmail? I am using it as a separate account and I am already very tempted but I am not prepared to trust all my mail into the hands of a service which, no matter how good it is, is after all still in Beta and suffers from major cock-ups like losing the entire contents of some users' mailboxes.

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