YahooMailProxy

Review

YahooMailProxy is a security scanner from Yahoo used for security scanning, malware checks, vulnerability assessment, certificate review.

User-Agent

YahooMailProxy

User-agent strings are identity signals, not proof of identity. Use Edge to compare the user-agent with IP, datacenter, behavior, path, and request history.

Verification and Detection

Verification method: Verify YahooMailProxy by matching `YahooMailProxy` to Yahoo evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.

YahooMailProxy traffic is primarily detected by the `YahooMailProxy` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `Yahoo Mail`; a representative HTTP user-agent is `YahooMailProxy; https://help.yahoo.com/kb/yahoo-mail-proxy-SLN28749.html`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Yahoo infrastructure before trusting the traffic.

Handling Guidance

Use this public record as identity context, then verify source, behavior, and site impact inside Edge before creating rules.

YahooMailProxy is used for security scanning, malware checks, vulnerability assessment, certificate review, and site-safety analysis.

Record Details

Aliases: Yahoo Mail
Type: security
Operator: Yahoo
Family: Yahoo
Kind: Scanner
Purpose: Security
Identity: Verified Bot
Detection confidence: Medium
Spoofing risk: YahooMailProxy Has Medium Spoofing Risk Because User Agent Strings Can Be Copied; Pair The Match With DNS, IP, Behavior, Or Operator Evidence.
Status: Active
Respects robots.txt: No
Last verified: 2026 06 23

Robots.txt Snippet

User-agent: YahooMailProxy
Disallow: /

Traffic Matching

Live IP verification, reverse DNS, ASN and datacenter correlation, request history, connected-domain matches, behavioral context, and rule creation are kept inside Botcrawl Edge.

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