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By: Marie Zarankevich

Marie Zarankevich — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:30:39 +0000

Dear Ryan,

Thank you for everything. I love Yahoo, and have since the beginning. You guys rock. mz

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:24:04 +0000

Well, what a mess. With all the bruhaha over the new RocketMail and YMail, I can’t even find any conversations going on about the sorry state of affairs with Classic Yahoo. I really have tried to adjust to the changes. But I just am not pleased. It seems that Yahoo is in a horrible mess in all aspects of it’s “customer support”. There are so many different blogs and subjects and comments, you can spend all day trying to figure out what – if anything – is being done about all these problems.

Bring back my Classic Yahoo!

By: Opher

Opher — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:36:26 +0000

So, I forward an email to abuse@yahoo.com to report it as spam from a Yahoo mail account. Here is the reply I received:

“Unfortunately, it appears the full Internet headers of the unwanted
message you have received is not reaching us. Below I have provided
step-by-step instructions on displaying the header information needed
and how to forward the message in question to us.

1. Within your Yahoo! Mail account, open the email you would like to
report.

2. Click the “Full headers” link located near the bottom right hand
corner of the screen to display the complete header information.

3. Click the “Forward” button to forward the message to us.

4. Type abuse@yahoo.com within the “To:” text box.

5. Click “Send” to send the message to us.

Once we receive the email in its entirety, we will be able to evaluate
the unwanted message further. Please know that if any of the requested
information is missing, we will be unable to complete our investigation.

I await your response so I may investigate your issue.”

Isn’t that nice! Too bad NOTHING IN IT IS CORRECT! Yahoo has changed Classic Mail so that it it not possible to forward email with full headers. The “documentation” is incorrect. FIX YOUR SOFTWARE!

By: TD

TD — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:33:27 +0000

How about adding support for a PGP (pretty good privacy) plugin so that we can protect our email from the newly empowered NSA.

By: Naz

Naz — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:55:34 +0000

I like the new mail but one thing I do not like is when I am creating new e-mails and click on the contact list – I hate the look – - I like the look of the old contact list. Therefore I create new e-mails in the Old mail. Is there going to be a change?

By: MJW

MJW — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:04:01 +0000

I don’t think it takes too many brain cells to work out that Yahoo have instituted radical changes degrading the standard of Yahoo Classic so that people get so fed up they revert to their Mail Plus option at £11 a year.
I for one object strongly to this. If I want Mail Plus – and I hated the beta – I won’t be railroaded into it using these kind of ridiculous tactics.
Yahoo Classic has been clearly degraded. The preferences you used to have have been removed. You cannot view full headers any more, the viewable header is not sufficently informative, and it appears to be more buggy. I cannot search for emails properly now, without there being a problem with various error messages.
I have had this before and Yahoo did change me to another server (apparently).
The spam filter has and always has been rubbish. Even when you educate it to accept emails from a certain source, it still sees it as spam. The spam filter is chaotic, to say the least. I have to keep an eye on my spam folder all the time and I get loads of emails, just because I know a good number of legit emails will be filed as spam. Ridiculous. But that has always been the case.
I have emailed Yahoo customer service and the executive department about these changes but had ZERO resposne. I think it is time to find another reliable email service.
I really would not have minded possibly swapping over to Mail Plus but these sneaky tactics are not on.
Also what possible encouragement is there to any user to use Mail Plus when they do not respond to emails querying what on earth is going on.
Yahoo used to be great. Now truly and utterly dogpoo.

By: Denise

Denise — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:20:53 +0000

I was on my yahoo email on Friday, june 13 and suddenly by computer began to reboot and reboot. I know yahoo mail was doing some changes as many people complained of not being able to access email Thursday and Friday. Could whatever yahoo was doing be responsible for my computer failure?

By: arshd

arshd — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:36:32 +0000

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By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:01:06 +0000

I have a free Yahoo email account. I am getting swamped with junk mail. My account will only block 500 addresses. How can I increase the amount of address Yahoo will block?

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:36:13 +0000

I have just one beef with Yahoo mail. I use my Yahoo address primarily for newsletter subscriptions, so the majority of emails I read in Yahoo are quite long. Several times I’ve gotten part-way through a newsletter when the page spontaneously refreshes and I find myself back at the beginning of the message. This forces me to have to scroll back down and search for the place where I was reading before the un-asked-for refresh. It’s annoying to say the least.