Comments on: Et Tu Yahoo Mail?

By: » Yahoo Mail outage hits users over the weekend | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

Tue, 22 May 2007 23:11:24 +0000

[...] have been getting reports, as has GigaOm, about a Yahoo Mail outage over the weekend for some users. According to Yahoo spokesperson Karen [...]

By: roxie

roxie — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:24:07 +0000

Today is March 1st and I can't even pull up the yahoo mail page. My computer says the connection to the page has timed out. This is my first major problem with yahoo and I am bummed. Is their any reliable and safe e-mail service out there? I also have noticed that lately when I send an e mail sometimes a copy will not be saved. Also when I go back to the in-box sometimes I am not let in. I found your web page after seeing if their was any news posting a problem with yahoo mail.

By: Deb

Deb — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:30:37 +0000

I have been unable to obtain my main email one screen name. I keep getting the run around how it must be my connection, etc....however, if i sign out and use my other yahoo email address, not a problem. I am going insane

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:50:23 +0000

Glad to see that I am not the only one that's having issues with Yahoo mail. While I do like their cleaner/current UI it seems much slower.

Additionally, for the past few days I have had very spotting connections to their site and wondered if it was their issue or due to my upgrading FireFox. I decided to try IE and the issue persisted. Anyone else having connection issue to Yahoo Mail?

By: Photogsil

Photogsil — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 22:39:45 +0000

I'm getting dozens of emails each day for the past week from POSTMASTER@, SYSTEMADMINISTRATOR@, MAILER_DAEMON@___ and MAIL DELIVERY SYSTEM all with delivery failure or failure notice subjects...all to people I've never emailed. It's crazy. And anoying as sin. I've been a loyal Yahoo user for a decade and have NEVER experienced this. Anyone want to weigh in on 1) whether this is their system's problem or mine? 2) my assumption that because of the "crafty" senders being used, the setting in SPAM settings that says accept only emails from contacts or Certified senders isn't working, yes?

By: jonathan

jonathan — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:59:12 +0000

I’ve used Yahoo mail for a long time. Most of the time it works perfectly. Sometimes, like today, it won’t let me pick up my mail. Sometimes the problem is that the ads take forever to resolve.
Those problems I can live with, it’s free after all. But what I can’t live with is the recent banner ads that either (1) play audio, or (2) open up windows which cover over the mail I am trying to select.
I realize that the email is paid for by the ads, but they are getting way out of hand. Last week when I was picking up my email at work, one of these audio ads came on very loud and it disturbed the other people in my office.
I’m in marketing and I create ads for a living, however, I’d never create one that was truly anoying–that only generates outrage

By: Barbara

Barbara — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:12:44 +0000

I can't even log in to my yahoo account. After scanning the web for information, I've found complaints of repeated outages. Not encouraging.

By: Caroline

Caroline — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:28:14 +0000

My yahoo email has been down for a week. I can send, but I'm not getting any mail, and it's like the database is down, because all my folders when I open them say "you have no messages in your so and so folder" but it still says the number of messages I have in each one. I've had to switch to my other yahoo account which is working fine in original mail but the beta isn't working at all.

By: Tim Bee

Tim Bee — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:54:47 +0000

i'd agree with Taco de Vries that the spam on Yahoo Mail is a much bigger long-term problem - it's totally out of control. I stopped using Yahoo as my main email when Gmail came along but had to stop forwarding because of all the crap it sent on. the irony being i abandoned hotmail for yahoo for the exact same reason. and today gmail is opened up to the great unwashed… maybe by the time gmail tips over we'll have all abandoned email anyway.

By: Nitin Borwankar

Nitin Borwankar — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:00:23 +0000

"We refuse to pay a provider to get support for a problem that they are causing!"

Dude! All paid support is for problems caused by the vendor.

If their service or product was perfect there would be no need for support. That's why support is such a money maker and that's why software can be shipped with scores of bugs. Wink, wink. Get with the program and pay the toll.

By: Taco de Vries

Taco de Vries — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:35:36 +0000

my yahoo account has over 24000 (!) emails in its inbox, despite the fact that I directed its spam checker to delete all spam immediately. It simply does nto work!

Have not been able to use it for over 6 months now, and have been unable to delete such a large inbox… the cript is unable to handle all the emails…and guess what.. it is all spam. I ask people to use my gmail instead is they would like to reach me.

By: Sheeni Meeni

Sheeni Meeni — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:47:23 +0000

Wow Om. You love Apple Computers. Imagine how many people in India would have computers if Apple were the dominant computer manufacturer, and kept hardware and software tied together and keep charging exhorbitant prices. I don't think many people would have been able to afford $2000 a pop.

By: Anurag

Anurag — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:43:14 +0000

"We refuse to pay a provider to get support for a problem that they are causing!"

Its a FREE SERVICE people. Get over it. Sheesh.

I would certainly be upset if my yahoo mail started acting erratically, but this is carrying it too far, IMO.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:57:33 +0000

My email on Yahoo! has been working fine. In my opinion, their email product is superior to all the others out there. Never have had any issues.

By: gz

gz — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:21:00 +0000

I'm one of the people that wrote about how reliable Y! mail was when you wrote the gmail post…well, naturally, it has been problematic since then. I have multiple Y! accounts, some associated with domains that Y! hosts, and frequently my accounts get stuck and then reload with a message that states something like mail needs to reload due to routine server maintenance. Pure speculation but maybe due to their IM integration efforts? Certainly "routine" server maintenance has become much more routine lately…

By: Yohay

Yohay — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:42:18 +0000

I currently can't access my Yahoo! mailbox. I'm going to add my name to the petition…