Yahoo Mail

Newportnobby · January 24, 2014, 03:47:45 PM

I've had a mail from Yahoo to state that Classic Yahoo is closing 24.1.14 and I need to upgrade in order to retain all my mails, contacts etc.

Is anyone else using Yahoo mail? Is this a scam or for real?

Signed
Concerned of Leyland

EtchedPixels · January 24, 2014, 03:50:56 PM

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/bt-yahoo-classic-version-closing-phishing-scam.shtml

Newportnobby · January 24, 2014, 03:54:04 PM

Quote from: EtchedPixels on January 24, 2014, 03:50:56 PM
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/bt-yahoo-classic-version-closing-phishing-scam.shtml

Thanks very much, Alan

Newportnobby · March 01, 2014, 05:16:56 PM

Am now getting a message stating

There is a problem with this site's Security Certificate.
The Security Certificate presented by this website was issued for a different website's address.

Any other Yahoo Mail users getting this please

Oldun · March 01, 2014, 05:32:01 PM

Mines OK, sounds like another scam

Roger

EtchedPixels · March 01, 2014, 05:39:39 PM

Quote from: newportnobby on March 01, 2014, 05:16:56 PM
Am now getting a message stating

There is a problem with this site's Security Certificate.
The Security Certificate presented by this website was issued for a different website's address.

Any other Yahoo Mail users getting this please

Certificates are issued to websites by name. Getting a wrong address could indicate several things varying between an indication of something bad on your machine (unlikely) to incompetence at the other end (probably more likely)

If you ask the web browser to show the problem certificate it should tell you what site the certificate is actually for. See if its something silly like yahoo.co.uk v yahoo.com or is odder.

Alan

scotsoft · March 01, 2014, 06:48:11 PM

I stopped using my Yahoo quite a few months ago but when I just tried, I got in without any problems

jonclox · March 01, 2014, 08:52:22 PM

I think Im right in saying that Yahoo.co.uk is moving its servers etc from the mainland to northern Ireland some when soon so anything might happen till they get that all sorted out

Newportnobby · March 02, 2014, 05:20:01 AM

Deleted the link in my Favourites, Googled Yahoo Mail, logged on, saved the link again and all seems fine.

Bealman · March 02, 2014, 11:25:13 AM

I don't know about the situation in the UK, but I am totally over Yahoo mail, which I have been with for 10 years.

They have gone over to this "conversation" type of format as on smartphones, and it is just a pain.

I wake up in the morning and it tells me I have 19876 emails, when most of them I have already read and are tagged onto the last one.

This is extremely frustrating when it comes to the NGF, as when I check that email, their is a link which, when I click on it, turns out to be my own last entry!

The worst thing of all is when a mate of mine sends me a joke I find funny and want to forward it to other friends, when I click "Forward", it doesn't just send the recent joke, but the whole "conversation" of the last few days or so.

Mail used to be listed in screenfuls, now it's the whole shabang all the way to the bottom.

There was nowt wrong with the old setup.

I hate the new format, and am going to make a swap to something better, soon.

Yours, disgruntled Yafoo user.

Bealman · July 10, 2014, 02:36:29 AM

Latest nonsense which is starting to make me think of abandoning Yahoo... as of today I am getting an ad email at the top of my list which I cannot get rid of, and seems to be sponsored by Yahoo.

The problem of course is, all the messing around you would have to do advising friends and companies of your change of email....

Chatty · July 10, 2014, 06:57:42 AM

George

The sole purpose in life for these types of services (if you can call it that) is to sell advertising.

It is the same with search engines, although some are worse than others.

Kind regards

Geoff

Bealman · July 10, 2014, 07:16:38 AM

Thanks, Geoff, most of the time I can (and do) live with all of the advertising, but the annoying thing about this that has appeared is that there seems to be no way that I can find to delete the thing.

Caz · July 10, 2014, 07:55:57 AM

It has happened on the Yahoo groups as well and that is why a lot of people have left the Yahoo group system, think they are shooting themselves in the foot.

Dorsetmike · July 10, 2014, 09:38:07 AM

You get what you pay for, Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail or its offshoots - gifts to spammers, adverts etc; no substitute for a proper ISP email, I was with AOL for some years then switched to ntlworld, part of virgin media, no ads, very little spam, average less than one a day, probably about 3 or 4 a week, viagra or phishing.