Check Your Gmail Spam Folder for yahoo.com Emails

Throughout the past several weeks Google has been classifying a high volume of messages as spam from yahoo.com email addresses. This affects many of our parents who use their Yahoo email accounts to communicate with Barrington 220 staff.

When I regularly check my spam folder, I’m quite cautious with all messages within this folder. Google uses this space as a catch-all repository for suspicious messages, including those messages that may have malicious intent. Never click on links or attachments contained within messages found in your spam folder unless you have determined the sender is legitimate and their content is safe. If Google has marked a message as “seems dangerous,” it probably is!

If you do find a message from a parent or other Barrington 220 stakeholder within your spam folder, simply mark the message as “not spam,” and subsequent messages from that email address should be delivered to your Gmail inbox.



We are hoping that Google resolves this issue in the near future as it is affecting all school districts, businesses, and other organizations that use Google Workspace. But until they do, please keep a close eye on your spam folder.