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Why would both newspapers bypass my desk top?

clifffaith

clifffaith

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About six to eight weeks ago the newspapers stopped arriving in my desktop inbox. They arrive as usual on my phone and I have to forward them to the larger screen. I checked my spam folder and they aren’t there, and I am unaware of anything else coming to my phone only.
 
clifffaith said:
About six to eight weeks ago the newspapers stopped arriving in my desktop inbox. They arrive as usual on my phone and I have to forward them to the larger screen. I checked my spam folder and they aren’t there, and I am unaware of anything else coming to my phone only.
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What do you mean by "desktop inbox?" On a PC, email is either accessed through a web browser or a standalone program like Outlook. What service provider is your email through and how do you access it on your PC?

Also what do you mean by "forward them?"
 
davidvel said:
What do you mean by "desktop inbox?" On a PC, email is either accessed through a web browser or a standalone program like Outlook. What service provider is your email through and how do you access it on your PC?

Also what do you mean by "forward them?"
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Forward = email the newspapers to myself from my phone, causing them to show up on my computer
Yahoo email is through I guess outlook on the computer
As far as I know all other emails are showing up on both my phone and the computer, only the newspapers are only showing up on my phone
 
is the email address forwarded to your phone a different email than the ones the newspaper is sending to directly?
 
TUGBrian said:
is the email address forwarded to your phone a different email than the ones the newspaper is sending to directly?
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Nope, same yahoo email. It’s been no issue until recently.
 
Sounds liked the newspaper email is not recognizing her PC address for some reason.
 
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clifffaith said:
Nope, same yahoo email. It’s been no issue until recently.
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What app are you using to read your email on your phone? Is it an iphone or android?

So when you forward to yourself you see it again on your phone?

If you are using Outlook on your PC it may be seeing the news emails as spam/junk. Did you check these folders?
 
davidvel said:
What app are you using to read your email on your phone? Is it an iphone or android?

So when you forward to yourself you see it again on your phone?

If you are using Outlook on your PC it may be seeing the news emails as spam/junk. Did you check these folders?
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iPhone
Yes, after I email it to myself I see it a second time on my phone
I checked the computer spam folder a second time just now, very little, and not newspapers, ends up there
 
Deleted the email address from your phone and sign in with your yahoo account.
 
I have a lot of issues with Yahoo based emails on different devices. My wife often can't see the email on the iPhone but it will show up on the computer. Sometimes it is the other way around. I've determined that Yahoo email sucks. I've even had issues with MSN mail in Outlook. Just trying to determine a good alternative that doesn't cost too much that is true IMAP.
 
clifffaith said:
iPhone
Yes, after I email it to myself I see it a second time on my phone
I checked the computer spam folder a second time just now, very little, and not newspapers, ends up there
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What app are you using to check your email on your phone, the iphone email app or a yahoo app? Do you know if it is using POP or IMAP protocol?

What program are you using on your PC?
 
davidvel said:
What app are you using to check your email on your phone, the iphone email app or a yahoo app? Do you know if it is using POP or IMAP protocol?

What program are you using on your PC?
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Don’t know. I “turn the key in the ignition” and hope things work. Newspapers seem to be the only thing affected, and I guess I’ll just keep forwarding the paper to myself which causes it to be visible to Cliff in my email on the computer.
 
The easiest fix may be to open a new email account. We also had problems with yahoo and now use Gmail. No more missing newspapers :)
 
Yeah Yahoo is a bit outdated. Everybody uses gmail now. Still, emails should not be disappearing.

Have you tried searching for the emails using the search box, rather than just checking the spam folder? There could be a second spam folder that it is getting sent to.
 
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n42 said:
Yeah Yahoo is a bit outdated. Everybody uses gmail now. Still, emails should not be disappearing.

Have you tried searching for the emails using the search box, rather than just checking the spam folder? There could be a second spam folder that it is getting sent to.
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I agree with this. It doesn't make any technical sense that only these emails aren't showing up on the desktop. What newspaper is it?
 
n42 said:
Yeah Yahoo is a bit outdated. Everybody uses gmail now. Still, emails should not be disappearing.

Have you tried searching for the emails using the search box, rather than just checking the spam folder? There could be a second spam folder that it is getting sent to.
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Winner winner, chicken dinner! Both the LA Times and the local-to-mom Daily Breeze are “hiding” somewhere, and using the email search box on my computer ferrets them out. Now I’m taking bets on how long it will take Cliff to remember they are there and how to use the search box. I’ll stop forwarding from my phone and show him daily until it becomes ingrained.
 
clifffaith said:
Winner winner, chicken dinner! Both the LA Times and the local-to-mom Daily Breeze are “hiding” somewhere, and using the email search box on my computer ferrets them out. Now I’m taking bets on how long it will take Cliff to remember they are there and how to use the search box. I’ll stop forwarding from my phone and show him daily until it becomes ingrained.
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You should be able to mark the email addresses that those papers are coming from so that Yahoo sends them to your inbox vs a spam/junk folder
 
It sounds like Outlook is the problem, not Yahoo. Yahoo is not marking them as spam, so they aren't getting sent to the Yahoo spam folder. The local desktop is marking it as spam, so it is getting sent to a different spam folder instead.

You should be able to add their email address to either your address book, or the "safe senders" list, in order to ensure that it doesn't get marked as spam. How you accomplish this depends on the version of Outlook that you are running.
 
clifffaith said:
Winner winner, chicken dinner! Both the LA Times and the local-to-mom Daily Breeze are “hiding” somewhere, and using the email search box on my computer ferrets them out. Now I’m taking bets on how long it will take Cliff to remember they are there and how to use the search box. I’ll stop forwarding from my phone and show him daily until it becomes ingrained.
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When you search in Outlook and the list of emails comes up, the folder where it is located will be shown in the lower right corner. The email I searched for below was in my BDAY folder. I wonder if you set up a sorting rule to move it somewhere or it may be in spam or junk folders.

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