Anyone else having trouble connecting to Yahoo Mail this evening?
We can't connect either on 2 laptops or iphone !
Nope - I've just tried it and I can't get in either.
Chris
Sure I read somewhere yesterday that their email had been compromised again, another security breech.
Yep its down, but the user group is running ok.
It`s down here tonight.
I wandered in via Google.
Even when I managed to sneak in the backdoor to Yahoo I couldn't access mail etc
Mail now working but it's very slow .
Quote from: port perran on February 04, 2014, 07:17:25 PM
Mail now working but it's very slow .
As you say very very slow
Better here but it was b slow up to 10 minutes ago. Big sis called and I got her to reboot her router. She's OK now.
Dave G
Mines OK tonight here in King's Lynn but was unable to connect to mail last night. Kept asking to sign in and then would not display any messages or folders etc.
Had some problems last week, when kept telling me could not connect to incoming server (Macmail), but worked OK from Yahoo main site. Had that for three days then all OK. Working OK all day today (bills getting through, anyway!).
Sorry Folks, but I've been on Yahoo Mail several times today with no issues although I didn't try between 14.00 and 21.00.
Internet Explorer Rules :laugh:
Quote from: newportnobby on February 04, 2014, 09:45:09 PM
Sorry Folks, but I've been on Yahoo Mail several times today with no issues although I didn't try between 14.00 and 21.00.
Internet Explorer Rules :laugh:
Certainly doing a lot better than Chrome right now!
Dave G
Mine went down about 6:00 pm didn't get back in till 9:00pm .
OK here in Aus... :D
Although I don't know about the UK version, but Yahoo changed the email format recently here and I don't like it at all.
BT moved our email account to Yahoo a while back which was no problem. But now they have redirected the email startup page to a BT Home page trying to get us to buy something before having to input the full email address and a password to get to the emails (it will only remember the password for about an hour) it's a right pain.
SWMBO clings to the Mail button on the iMac which will remember your password for ever - but this just causes the BT inbox to fill up so I have to give in myself and keep typing the darned password. Annoying.
Unless someone knows a way to avoid it without installing some horrible free software.
Could try an e-mail client?
Up until recently I was using MS Outlook as I had full Office on my laptop, but now I've got a funky new one I'll have to find something else. Mrs Sprintex has been using the online version of Outlook on hers for a while, seems OK so far and we both have BT e-mail accounts :)
Paul
Never did like the BT Yahoo set up. My dad had it and it was a real PITA. Could have been driver error I suppose!
Yahoo: Same over here George. The new format is poo compared with the simple, easy to use earlier version. Silly 'conversation' rubbish.
Why do software people do this to stuff that works fine? :veryangry: It's not that we don't want or like change but not just for its own sake. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
(You'll find me under table with me tin hat on! :uneasy:)
Dave G
If software people didn't make these changes then they couldn't call us idiots and talk about us behind our backs for using the Helpdesk at work.
Can't make up my mind if the Yahoo change is to direct us to their adverts like some form of cold calling or an overblown concern about security. If the latter then really important people like celebrities need it more than I do.
I recently changed over to gmail after having problems with my previous email client.
I have found it great to use and it offers a range of services e.g. video chat, text chat etc.
I stopped using Yahoo after it was continually being hacked and causing a lot of problems.
cheers John.
Hmm, gmail, there was a bit of a furore on a motorcycle group I belong to about google "reading" people's e-mails in order to target advertising at them, that is well out of order! :veryangry: I've had no problems with yahoo mail in more than 10 years of being with them, my mrs has a gmail account, only gave it to 3 family members, and is constantly bombarded with junk e-mails from all kinds of companies, and the only way they could get her details was from google :o
Suffering from slow performance and plenty of 'Yahoo is not responding' this morning but then again everything seems to be haywire including trying to get Radio 2 :confused1:
Quote from: hairygit on February 05, 2014, 10:39:39 AM
Hmm, gmail, there was a bit of a furore on a motorcycle group I belong to about google "reading" people's e-mails in order to target advertising at them, that is well out of order! :veryangry: I've had no problems with yahoo mail in more than 10 years of being with them, my mrs has a gmail account, only gave it to 3 family members, and is constantly bombarded with junk e-mails from all kinds of companies, and the only way they could get her details was from google :o
I don't receive any junk mail on my gmail account, I did on the other accounts I have had in the past.
I only went to gmail as I was getting nowhere with the last crowd I was using, I was wary of their privacy policy but I went through it a gave them no permissions to do anything with my email address. I always decline to be sent any offers or be contacted by third parties. Perhaps you need to have a look at the settings you wife has setup.
cheers John.
Quote from: scotsoft on February 05, 2014, 11:30:26 AM
Quote from: hairygit on February 05, 2014, 10:39:39 AM
Hmm, gmail, there was a bit of a furore on a motorcycle group I belong to about google "reading" people's e-mails in order to target advertising at them, that is well out of order! :veryangry: I've had no problems with yahoo mail in more than 10 years of being with them, my mrs has a gmail account, only gave it to 3 family members, and is constantly bombarded with junk e-mails from all kinds of companies, and the only way they could get her details was from google :o
I don't receive any junk mail on my gmail account, I did on the other accounts I have had in the past.
I only went to gmail as I was getting nowhere with the last crowd I was using, I was wary of their privacy policy but I went through it a gave them no permissions to do anything with my email address. I always decline to be sent any offers or be contacted by third parties. Perhaps you need to have a look at the settings you wife has setup.
cheers John.
I use gmail and having spent 15 minutes setting everything to no permissions all is fine, I just have a quick look in the spam folder once a week to check that nothing I need got filed there, no problem with that
Graham
:wave:
I have an old, alternative web email with supanet.com, which came with my first "proper" computer. I give the address to people I do not want cluttering up my daily inbox. Main problem is it is so, so slow as a web mail - but then I only look at it once a month. Also have an old sky email as well, for similar uses, also very slow.
Quote from: daveg on February 05, 2014, 10:02:30 AM
Never did like the BT Yahoo set up. My dad had it and it was a real PITA. Could have been driver error I suppose!
Yahoo: Same over here George. The new format is poo compared with the simple, easy to use earlier version. Silly 'conversation' rubbish.
Why do software people do this to stuff that works fine? :veryangry: It's not that we don't want or like change but not just for its own sake. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
(You'll find me under table with me tin hat on! :uneasy:)
Dave G
Quote from: ParkeNd on February 05, 2014, 10:11:39 AM
If software people didn't make these changes then they couldn't call us idiots and talk about us behind our backs for using the Helpdesk at work.
Can't make up my mind if the Yahoo change is to direct us to their adverts like some form of cold calling or an overblown concern about security. If the latter then really important people like celebrities need it more than I do.
Sounds like your new version is the same as ours, then. Yeah... all 'conversations' and those pesky adverts down the side (more often than not dating clubs). I don't like the horrible wishy washy colours, either, nor the fact that it doesn't divide the inbox up into pages any more (at least mine doesn't)....
I could go on and on. If it works, don't fix it, I say. There was nowt wrong with the old one.
Glad to see there are others who feel the same way.
George
Yahoo mail seems to have gone walkabout again this evening. Can get into Yahoo web page, sign in and hover over mail button, and list of mails drops down. Clicking on any mail results in grey safari page telling me that cannot connect to yahoo as server is having problems. Macmail gives same result.
Its back and mail is coming through or at least was 15 minutes ago
Cheers John. Went back and found two messages - both from NGF re thread updates!!!!!!
:claphappy: Its up and working well this morning (so far)