
Yahoo has taken new steps to sharpen its Webmail service’s antispam capabilities, including the adoption of two commercial technologies and the testing of an open-source system, the company said Tuesday.
Abaca announced that Yahoo will use its e-mail security technology designed to detect malicious phishing and spam messages and filter them out of Yahoo Mail inboxes.
Meanwhile, Return Path said separately that Yahoo will implement its Complaint Feedback Loop, a service that notifies legitimate e-mail marketers whenever end users tag their messages as spam, so that they can investigate why, such as using an incorrect mailing list, and take corrective action…
