Using Disposable Addresses

This feature is available for BT Yahoo! Online Option 1, 2, 3, and 4 users.
Getting Started Creating Disposable Addresses Seeing Who Uses Your Disposable Addresses Sending Message Using Disposable Addresses Deleting Disposable Addresses

Deleting Disposable Addresses

By default, SpamGuard Plus protects your disposable addresses by sending any messages recognised as spam to your Spam folder. If some spam still makes it to your Inbox or other destination folder, you can do two things:

  • Report the messages as spam by selecting them and clicking the Spam button. This trains your SpamGuard Plus filter to recognise such messages and send them to the Spam folder.

  • Delete the address if you do not expect any more valid email to be sent to the disposable address that receives spam.

Tip: Deleting a disposable address only prevents you from receiving more mail. It doesn’t remove any messages that you already received at that address.

 

Here’s How

  1. Go to the AddressGuard page in the BT Yahoo! Mail. (Remind me how.)

  2. On the AddressGuard management page, select the disposable address that you want to delete.

    Select the disposable address, then click the Delete button.

  3. Click the Delete button.

  4. When AddressGuard prompts you, confirm that you really want to delete the address by clicking the Delete Disposable Address button.

    Click the Delete Disposable Address button to confirm that you want to delete the address shown.

 

What’s Next

Once you delete a disposable address, BT Yahoo! Mail returns to the sender all future messages sent to that address.

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Words to Know

  • Disposable email address: a customised email address that you create using AddressGuard to protect your regular BT Yahoo! Mail address.
  • Spam: unsolicited email on the Internet; also called "junk mail".
  • Spam folder: a permanent folder that SpamGuard uses to hold messages it considers spam.