UPDATE: Postmaster Queue Delays

April 8th, 2008 at 6:44 pm

Ryan, my Y! account it about to be 10 years old.
I’m really happy with it, and if sth happened to it I wouldn’t know what to do.
However, I’ve lately been getting an error when trying to get mail from an external POP3 account (It’s translated from spanish):

The following error was produced when trying to check your external email
“lastUnsupported”

And that’s all it says.
Any help would really be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

April 8th, 2008 at 8:10 pm

IMAP Please!

April 8th, 2008 at 11:34 pm

I had problems yesterday with sending mail to my own Yahoo account. One could not be delivered at all (my employers mailserver tried for 12 hours) and one could only be delivered after more than 4 hours. Does Yahoo have capacity problems on their MX-Servers?

April 9th, 2008 at 3:10 am

[…] suggests it’s not fixed at all. Now, Yahoo’s own Mail Blog reports that their queue for reporting issues to their postmaster is backed up. Here’s a quote from the sherpa […]

April 9th, 2008 at 5:08 am

The “All New Yahoo! Mail” has not been working today. The “Mail Classic” seems to be functioning fine. Still waiting for IMAP!!! (ala Gmail)

April 9th, 2008 at 5:54 am

I came looking for a post explaining why the “All New” mail isn’t working. Given it’s been down at least 2 hours, I expected SOME sort of information….

April 9th, 2008 at 6:30 am

Olasumbo, have you even attempted to read any of the help files? Nobody but you can change the name associated with your account and it’s not particularly difficult to do. Go to help and read how.

April 9th, 2008 at 6:48 am

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April 9th, 2008 at 8:44 am

I cannot log into my yahoo email since the early morning.

It says “The error, LaunchHttpError-999, occurred when trying to connect to Yahoo! Mail. ”

Does anyone know what is happening?

April 9th, 2008 at 8:52 am

Launch Error message 99 - new Yahoo mail (Beta version) - what gives??? But Classic Mail works with no issues - gimme back the New Mail version soonest please.

April 9th, 2008 at 9:07 am

Hi everyone,
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There were some issues impacting some users this morning, but while I was in the process of tracking down the specifics everything appears to have stabilized. Sorry for not getting word up sooner, but I need to make sure that any issues I report on are described clearly and as accurately as possible.
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So yes, there was a problem earlier but everything should be back to normal now.
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We apologize for any frustration you experienced.
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Ryan

April 9th, 2008 at 9:39 am

Ryan,

I’m not sure what the time was of your last comment… But, I still can’t get into New Mail…

Thanks…

April 9th, 2008 at 11:18 am

I’ve been having problems off and on. Usually I just see the Firefox not loading screen.

Today, I had a message from Yahoo about Error Code 5. It advised that I reload the page, and if that doesn’t work to click on a link informing Yahoo.

Problem is, when I reload, I get the Firefox “won’t load” page again, not the Error 5 notice.

What the heck IS Error 5? And does this count as notifying someone?

April 9th, 2008 at 11:20 am

Same problem as #31723, not getting external POP Mails. I think it already is MS working on the internet backgroud for decrease the satisfaction of the Y! customers. We never had problems with Y! and why just now these problems are happening? Hope to be solved soon.

April 9th, 2008 at 11:36 am

I have several emails that have the subject line “AT&T Yahoo! Mail could not load this message”.
These messages can not be removed. Help?

April 9th, 2008 at 4:41 pm

I’m concerned with problems I’ve been having with Yahoo mail for a few weeks now. Almost all mail I send to myself is being diverted to bulk, and I’m getting frequent postmaster ‘mail can’t be delivered’ notices for mail to friend’s and family’s whom I’ve never had difficulty mailing to and who’s addresses have not changed. What’s going on? My sister who lives several states away is having similar problems. I use classic e-mail, and have never had any problems with it until about a month ago.

April 9th, 2008 at 6:24 pm

well as far as mail i gave up trying i have been down from yahoo mail for over a week i switched everything to gmail only because i need to communicate via email to several people. the crazy thing is no other problems on any other mail programs and the problem isnt because of the ISP, i tried on several computers and even went to the other side of the city with a computer that i have never logged onto and ran into the same problem. For those of you who can at least see your email be lucky. I cant even do that. I dont feel like hunting for the form to submit what steps i have gone through although i am curious why doesnt yahoo have that a little more visable like on the homepage anyways i have a few emials to read just thought i would drop a line to let everyone know that if your having the problem you are not alone.

April 10th, 2008 at 3:29 am

Ryan,

I have been subscribed to a daily news bulletin service of http://www.sarilaciverthaber.com and getting daily news of my favorite soccer team. Within the last 3-4 days (they were important since my team played a semi-final in European Champions League) I couldn’t receive their daily mails. I have contacted with them to see what’s the matter.

They informed me they regularly send mails every morning to the subscribers, but all the mails send to Yahoo addresses are bouncing back with a message below.

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY.

YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE.

Delivery to the following recipients has been delayed.

hakanguvn@yahoo.com

and final message is;

Your message

To: hakanguvn@yahoo.com
Subject: FENERBAHÇE GÜNLÜĞÜ
Sent: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 09:14:17 +0300

did not reach the following recipient(s):

hakanguvn@yahoo.com on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:21:10 +0300
İleti belirtilen süre içinde teslim edilemedi. Lütfen yeniden
deneyin veya sistem yöneticinize başvurun.(Please try again or contact to your system administrator)

Thanks for your help in advance,
Hakan

April 10th, 2008 at 6:01 am

I’ve had significant problems with Yahoo mail being rejected by other service providers due to the Yahoo servers being blacklisted for distributing spam. I’m also getting frequent time-outs on POP despite updating my settings. My trouble ticket has still not been answered after 3 weeks.

April 10th, 2008 at 7:46 am

مرحبا الحب يعطي الثمرة للنسان من الطاقه من الحب والحنان وشكرا” تحيلتي الى جميع الاصدقاء

April 10th, 2008 at 7:52 am

I love yahoo email and have used it since about 1998 without any incidents.

I certainly use a it a lot more these days so plannedm aintenance and service statuses would be really useful to know.

It’s been down for 7 hours today for no particular reason and I have had no repsonse from yahoo.

“There was a problem accessing your account. Please try again in a moment. code 2″

Frustrating!

Please keep us informed about what is going on! Not only do we love it we depend on it!

April 10th, 2008 at 8:44 am

No one is receiving e-mail from me today. I can’t send. This has been happening periodically. yet I get nothing back saying the e-mail was undeliverable.

April 10th, 2008 at 10:00 am

Folks, this is in preparation for the purchase by Microsoft. For those of you who try to send to HotMail you’ll know that Yahoo! mail now works about as well. Yahoo! executives have ordered the Yahoo! Mail team to make it work as poorly as HotMail so that the transition to a single mail system will be easier.

April 10th, 2008 at 12:22 pm

I have been a Yahoo Mail Plus subscriber for 3 years and, recently, it has become so unstable. Today, for instance, I am not able to send e-mails due to “Error Code 5.”

Also, every few months, my mail becomes delayed by hours and, sometimes, days.

This is completely unacceptable from a mail service. I have decided to follow everybody else I know and switch to Gmail. Unfortunately, Yahoo Mail is not ready for prime time. I don’t care about the bells and whistles. I just want reliability out of my e-mail.

Shame on you, Yahoo…

April 10th, 2008 at 2:24 pm

With all the talk about people not receiving emails, not being able to send emails and/or not being able to view emails, I have to add that while weeding through some old emails, there is a certain time period (mid-November 2006 through December 31, 2006) that I’m unable to view/access. I get Error Code 6 in Classic Mail. When I attempt to view these emails in All New Mail, I get an error message that says the email cannot be found or located. I’m getting concerned that maybe the server has permanently lost some of our archived emails. I hope I’m just being paranoid, but a couple of months ago, another email provider (was it Comcast?) lost all of their customers’ saved emails. Forever. Keeping my fingers crossed that all of these problems get ironed out soon.

Doesn’t the latest news include Yahoo going into partnership with AOL/Time-Warner? I’m not sure the problems we’re experiencing would therefore have much to do with Microsoft, but who knows.

April 10th, 2008 at 2:46 pm

Again today, after several days of satisfaction, my email comes to a halt. I keep getting a message that yahoo has rejected my password. So far its happened over 50 times this afternoon!

Is anyone else having this problem? Reading all the blogs above, It seems like yahoo mail is plagued with problems lately.
Frustrated..Ken

April 10th, 2008 at 6:50 pm

Ryan!

You look cute in that pic, keep up the good work

xk

April 10th, 2008 at 8:37 pm

Same problems for several weeks. The SMTP servers either don’t recognize my stored password when using an email client or the authentication process works fine but the server then times out.

It’s happening to multiple people I know who use Yahoo Mail Plus. These continuing SMTP problems are getting old…

April 11th, 2008 at 1:01 am

I’ve had no access to my email for over 24 hours now. just keep getting There was a problem accessing your account. Please try again in a moment. code 2.

Nothing I have tried seems to solve this yet I can login to my friends account just fine!

April 11th, 2008 at 6:04 am

Beginning April 10th and still happening today, April 9th, the incoming mail servers plus.mail.yahoo.com and mail.yahoo.com are repeatedly rejecting my email client’s (Outlook 2007) attempts to download mail. Periodically, it will succeed (maybe 1 out of 25 tries).

We all would appreciate it if you would post info is this is a known issue and an ETA for resolution. Many thanks!

April 11th, 2008 at 6:50 am

I am trying to exchange e-mails with a financial institute and Yahoo is randomly blocking my e-mail to them as well as their e-mail to me.

When is this going to be repaired? Do I need to get another e-mail account?

April 11th, 2008 at 10:04 am

Why is this blog so poorly integrated with my other Yahoo tools?
-Why do I have to enter my name and email address? I’m logged in to my Yahoo account, that should be filled in automatically.
-If I want to forward this post by e’mail, why do I have to set up a new “Share This” account? Why can’t I just use my Yahoo! Address Book?

April 13th, 2008 at 1:12 am

hey guys please HURRY fixinf this, I’m working with yahoo mail and this is a real PAIN in the xxx. I have so far lost around 30 important work mails.

Whae is this going to be fixed???????????

cheers.

April 13th, 2008 at 10:33 pm

I cannot access my yahoo messages. After signing-in an error message will be displayed saying “There was a problem accessing your account. Please try again in a moment. code 2″. I tried contacting the yahoo customer care and I’ve already submitted a verification form of my complaint. I am using Windows Vista and my browser is Firefox. Is there any connection with what browser or version of Windows am I using. I’ve been unable to access my messages since Thursday (April 10, 2008). What would be the problem with my account? It’s been so long and I haven’t receive any solution from yahoo.

April 14th, 2008 at 7:30 pm

There was a problem accessing your account. Please try again in a moment. code 2

I’m having this error every time I open my email account. Its been like that for about a week now. Tried contacting the customer care but haven’t came back to me until now.
And also my public profiles were deleted from my account. But i am not editing my public profiles.

Can you help me please…

April 18th, 2008 at 12:15 am

There was a problem accessing your account. Please try again in a moment. code 2. Me too also encountered this error. Simple trying to change my password and then when i change and login to my account, wha-la! the error occurs. What amazing is my YM! messenger is fine. Yahoo! admins please fix this problem, there’s a lot of people depending on their account especially me. Pleaseeee!

April 20th, 2008 at 10:09 am

no mail access error code 5
need access as billing is done by e-mail

April 21st, 2008 at 5:33 pm

Ive been having continious error code 6 with my yahoo mail account, I think my answer is going to be “googlemail” yahoo apparently doesnt care anymore.. guess tehy are “working hard” to be aol..

April 22nd, 2008 at 9:17 am

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April 23rd, 2008 at 6:00 am

I am fed up with Yahoo and its problems. Why can’t I get any help or answers? Patient answer is, “it should be fine in a few minutes or switch back to basic mail”. I have been with Yahoo for over 10 years and I have opened a gmail account and have been extremely happy. If Yahoo doesn’t get its junk together I am 100% gone. I will be 100% with google and gmail by the end of Summer. OH! It took several attempts to send this

April 25th, 2008 at 12:17 am

I can only echo many of the sentiments on this page. Track record has been pretty good with Yahoo however missing emails or 24 hours late is simply not good enough. I am a mail plus subscriber which you would expect QOS however this does not appear to be the case. It is evident that when dealing with the technical staff and seeing all the posts that Yahoo have done upgrades to there systems and they simply cannot cope with the throughput. Weather it is the the systems inability to cope with the load or the rule base used to analise and intercept the mails before delivering to recipient, who knows! but it is simply causing delays in an in- consistent manner which is another reason why the technical staff waste there and the end users time trying to troubleshoot. I will have times when email will work with no issues and then I just dont receive them for a day or two. In the meantime the sender has received error messages saying in lamens terms there has been problem sending to me but despite this I still get them but much later on. Obviously stuck in a QUEUE!! . Yahoo need to publicly announce exactly what the problems are to set peoples expectations. I myself am looking for another mail service and I anticipate they run the risk of losing many more if they do not sort soon.

April 28th, 2008 at 12:12 pm

Ryan -
Can you or anyone at Yahoo Mail provide us with an update? It’s been almost a month since the last promise. The request to “be patient as it’s taking longer to resolve than anticipated” is causing me to be impatient since I’m not seeing any results. Knock-Knock . . . is anyone from Yahoo Mail there? Do you care that your customers cannot rely on Yahoo Mail??

April 29th, 2008 at 10:46 am

I agree with most of the comments here…when our company goes through a merger, and they run their own Exchange server, no bulk mailing, no distribution lists, just a straight up corporate email server, with spam filtering, not an open relay…and they can’t send mail to the other half of the company because it’s hosted by Yahoo…Well that’s just unacceptable. What are the criteria for being greylisted and temporarily deferred? Sending more than 1 message a day? Because with normal email volume, we’re still getting ourselves greylisted.

I can’t believe we actually PAY for this kind of service. I can tell you this: Once our exchange server is running, it’s byebye to Yahoo forever.

April 29th, 2008 at 10:48 am

Oh…and I forgot to mention. The reply times are terrible for support. I submitted the online form for prioritized sending, since we dont’ send out ANY bulk mail, solicited or otherwise, 13 days ago, and the only reply I’ve recieved said that someone would get back to me within 5 days.

May 14th, 2008 at 6:04 am

Well obviously no one from yahoo has responded. However, I am getting really worried about not being able to check my mail. I couldn’t get on ANY yahoo sites on Friday (5/9) got on yahoo mail briefly on Saturday and then all this week, nothing! I don’t even get an error message, just nothing. What are we supposed to do? How are we supposed to check our e-mail? Why can’t we get any answers!?!?!

Does anyone know anything about this? It looks really bad for yahoo to be having server issues or whatever it may be at this point with all of the bad media they have been getting recently. AND I REALLY NEED TO CHECK MY EMAIL!!!

May 16th, 2008 at 4:58 am

Hello, I also have trouble login in. Keep getting the code 2 message. Is this permanent? Can it be fixed or can I already say bye bye to all my messages from the last 8 years?

May 27th, 2008 at 4:12 am

I’ve had the same error over and over again for at least 6 months now! The error is the following:

“There was a problem accessing your account. Please try again in a moment. code 2″

I wrote some e-mails asking for help and I even sent a screenshot so they could see the error message. And nothing. And this only happens to one of my Yahoo accounts. Yahoo sucks, that’s all I can say because this is a shame.

May 30th, 2008 at 7:27 am

me too error code 2 - for 2 weeks, emails sent to yahoo - no response… rubbish from Yahoo!

June 2nd, 2008 at 8:32 am

ok im having a problem logging on to my account (yahoo) from my cell phone i travel so sometimes i dont have the time to check it but now i just tried and been trying for the past week and when i go to the url it says error 503 service unavailable but before hand i never had any problems???

June 24th, 2008 at 11:45 pm

Does anyone have news about this issue,

There was a problem accessing your account. Please try again in a moment. code 2

July 28th, 2008 at 5:39 am

I recently changed my yahoo account to y-mail and I have many failure to deliver notices. It is very unprofessional and I am wondering what the problem is? Aso, it is taking several days before the mail is returned to me so I think the mail was delivered. What is the problem? I am thinking of changing addresses?? Thanks, Mary