Attention: Maintenance work – you may experience service problems
- Posted December 5th, 2008 at 6:05 pm by Ryan
- Categories: All-New Mail, Classic Mail, General
Due to an unplanned power equipment issue at one of Yahoo’s third-party co-location facilities, a small portion of Yahoo! services and features may be temporarily unavailable. Our provider is working expeditiously to complete the maintenance, which we expect to last a few hours.
What this specifically means for Mail users is that some of you will be unable to access your Yahoo! Mail for several hours this evening, and others will experience delays in email delivery. Additionally, some users may notice that they are unable to login to the chat feature within the All-New Yahoo! Mail. Overall it is a very small percentage of users who are impacted, but that doesn’t make it any less frustrating for those of you who are, and for that we are sorry.
Once the maintenance is complete, those users that have been affected will have full access to their email accounts. Again, we apologize for the inconvenience and will be working to resolve this as quickly as possible.
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December 5th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
And how many hours is a few hours??
This is very frustrating!
December 7th, 2008 at 7:16 am
I still have no access to email, keep trying to log on but just keeps going back to the sign in welcome screen, any idea how much lnger this will be happening for.
December 8th, 2008 at 7:28 am
I have been having the same problem since 10/31/08 and have still not been able to get back in to my email. I am PISSED and get most of my bills electronically, so I am seriously screwed. Every time I go to the online help, they simply say that “the engineering team is aware of the problem and working to resolve your issue”………..yeah, right!
December 8th, 2008 at 10:04 am
I have been trying to forward my emails on, and I cannot send anything out still….I can not even saved it to my drafts….this is frustrating, but I am wondering if the maintenance is completed or if not, how much longer do you figure it will take?….and if the maintenance is done, then how can I solve this problem?…thanks
December 9th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Ok, I can understand maintenance, but this is bordering on strange now. I’ve not been able to access Y-mail for little less than 2 days. The homepage loads normally, but when I go to sign in I get a “page load error” saying:
“Secure Connection Failed – login.yahoo.com uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate is only valid for us.rd.yahoo.com
The certificate expired on 20.3.2008 18:29.
(Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain)”
Just 15 minutes ago I managed to sign in, then I had to close down the browser (Firefox), and now I can’t sign in again (I get the same annoying ‘page load error’ line).
Can someone offer a little more elaborate explanation/reason? Please?
December 9th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Just to add, I’m in Croatia – if that helps re this error message I keep receiving.
December 9th, 2008 at 10:29 am
Saw a comment by Steven (Dec.8)…I also had Firefox update yesterday before I tried to log into Yahoo (to v.3.0.4.).
Just now I’ve tried IE, and I do get a normal sign in-window for Y-mail. So, if it’s Mozilla-thing, is there a way around it, other than uninstalling and reinstalling the browser? Anyone else having the same problem?
(sorry if this is not connected to the maintenance-topic, but it is a technical problem)
Thanks!
December 9th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
I have the same problem! I’m not happy When’s it going to be fixed?!
December 17th, 2008 at 7:04 am
I have been having problems it seems like forever, somtimes I get my emails and sometimes I don’t. WHAT HAPPENS???? Some of them are VERY IMPORTANT, I use it for my home based business. It seems like to me, yahoo is just about the worst one out there to use. I have had to switch and use others for the emails. At first I liked yahoo better because it was so much easier, but now, emails get lost for some reason….they don’t even make it to my spam folder.
December 7th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
i know right……i was thinking tht 2
December 9th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
I have Mail Plus and I cannot see any of the icons or images or tabs. Is this as a result of this glitch?
December 17th, 2008 at 9:19 am
i have no iconsor images either , but I don’t have mail plus only yahoo mail. come on yahoo it’s been like this for months on this pc.
December 20th, 2008 at 5:57 am
I can’t even sign into my mail now. I keep getting a revolving sign in page. I hope this gets resolved soon. I rely on my yahoo email.
December 11th, 2008 at 1:45 am
AT least they are saying something about it…now how about an update as to why I get som many broken links when I try to click deeper into a story. http://www.yahoo.com/s/1000372 linked from story about hockey player…
January 1st, 2009 at 11:01 am
Hilarious ! (but tradgic)
RE: ” Maintenance- you may experience service problems ”
It’s dated Dec. 5 th and it’s now Jan.1 st and the problems are worse and growing at at a supersonic rate.
At what point will they give it up and chalk it all up to experience and call it a lesson learned ?
Geeeez yahoo are you guys on a mission to destroy the company or do you have the delusion that anybody even want’s this social network crap.
Read the blogs ! Nobody is happy ! Nobody ! get it ? geeeeez !
If you can’t fix it in a few hours or less maybe that’s telling you something
as like it can’t be fixed ! Man oh man ! talk about a total waste of time !
( you should not have broke it in the first place ) go back to the former great working mail system PLEASE ! Spare us anymore trouble and grief !
It’s gone on long enough, way to long !
January 18th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
I agree with that, ever since I was “migrated” to the new and improved Yahoo mail, and I might add I never agreed to the terms and conditions, it’s been a pain in the butt. There more advertisement’s on the page than there are usefull information, I wish I could go back to the old email system, but the live chat say’s I can’t because I accepted the terms and conditions, which I did not.
December 5th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Also having problems accessing email tonite — ditto on the above q!
December 5th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Any idea what date/time the service will be restored?
December 5th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Seems as tho it has effected my yahoo mobile chat as well… and right in the middle of an overseas chat to boot. very irritating
December 5th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
I just have to share this because I am so annoyed right now; but this truly is the one time when I absolutely NEEDED to get an email that was sent to me earlier this evening! I wish that we could get some idea of when things will be back up so that I don’t need to keep checking.
December 5th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Does this affect adding new contacts too? Have been trying to do that for a while not and get a message that my machine is in a “read only” mode. Very confusing without any heads up from Yahoo.
December 6th, 2008 at 9:10 am
I was getting that message too, but apparantly it still saved all the changes made in my contacts.
December 5th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Lots more than just email is down. Messenger had been having problems for some time. Can’t add/delete contacts (getting server error), also SMS not working. .. This problem seems NOT confined to email. Take a look at the messenger blog. http://www.ymessengerblog.com/
December 5th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
How long is a few hours? I use Yahoo mail for work but I may change to another service after this. It’s irritating to have a 3rd party responsible for all of our email and have a breakdown. There should be a back up option or server, not just dump us all. Bummer. Please fix this asap.
December 5th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
For several weeks I rarely am able to complete an email message because I lose the message and an advertisement comes on. I am becoming very tired of this and am considering an alternate.
PLEASE RESPOND!
December 5th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Yahoo has definately redefined several words in the dictionary this evening! Total FAIL! At least have the decency to change the error message as being without mail for 4 hours does not fall under the definition of temporary or even briefly.
December 5th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
I’ve been having weird problems with yahoo for about a week now, e.g., mail jumping to “search”, “opened” mail suddenly not showing as “read” and contact lists opening up as if a “ghost” were in the room….ooooo…strange…. I kept thinking that is was my computer having problems but maybe this explains all the stange things going on with YAHOO. Anyway……
I’m wondering if the problem we’re having now is the culmination of something much bigger going on. If so, then hopefully they will get it all sorted out and we will all be happy.
Think of it this way…..a storm blows in and trees fall on power lines and/or transformers and everyone is suddenly out of power……the power company isn’t out to irritate you or cause you any inconvenience…..it’s life….sh*t happens!! Be patient….find something else to do with your life for a brief period of time!! Yahoo is not out to make your life miserable!
December 5th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
I cannot believe they are doing this to us. This has been going on for me off and on for the past six months and I think it such a joke! I hate that they do this and expect to keep users.
December 5th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Guys, get over it, sometimes technology has problems. It is life! In over 8 years of having a Yahoo e-mail address, I think this is one of the few times I have had a problem.
December 5th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
i noticed that it is taking three hours to receive my mail once it is sent from someone. this has been going on for several days.
December 5th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
If yahoo mail wasn’t free, i’d definitely demand a refund…my temporary outage is going on 5 hours
December 5th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Frustrating isn’t the word for it! I’ve been out since AT LEAST 4pm, it’s now nearly 11 and I am still unable to do anything – and as Murphy would have it, this could NOT be a worse day for this to happen :(
December 5th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
I am back online…
December 5th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
I’m unable to access yahoo mail. Since 3PM PST. It’s now 8PM PST.
December 5th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
I pay for this. Having no access to my email for this long is totally unacceptable. I’m going to have to seriously consider switching to gmail now. This is ridiculous. FIX THE PROBLEM!
December 5th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
i used yahoo mail as my primary email, i’m frustrated too but this is the first time something like this happens and yahoo mail is free, so it’s not right to complain so much about the problems when the email is free. It’s not like this happens everyday so hold your temper or go purchase a paid email account somewhere else. There’s nothing you can do except waiting patiently anyways. They’re working hard to get this back on
December 5th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
There should have been a back up for a major problem …several hours is not temporary.
December 5th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Figures, just when I open my big trap – mine is back too! Sorry – and thanks :)
December 5th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Okay, people all this nagging is not going to correct the problem any faster. So let’s just be patient and let them do what they need to do to get our Yahoo mail up and running. I have had Yahoo mail for over 5 years and I have never incountered a problem with them.
December 5th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
For those of you who were without email for a while and now have it back up, how long did the outage last for you?
December 5th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
I have had this problem with not getting access for hours — and now I am finding that others sending emails to my account are receiving a ‘mailer daemon’ rejection message saying my account has been disabled or discontinued. This is my work account so it is very frustrating.
December 5th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Yahoo seems to be suffering a “YANGOVER”…..I’ve suffered many of these “Borealis” effects over the past weeks and only came on this page to monitor the other reactions.
I have frustratingly slow email and many bounced emails / screwed-up contact additions etc etc.
I use yahoo forwarding to / from my business email…this is unacceptable and so it’s going to be a Gmail Christmas for me on a new Mac Air.
December 5th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
WOW, go figure all. Free is not always at your beck and call. Get lives and or pay for consistency.
December 5th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Calendar was also read-only for awhile. That and contacts currently working again, for me at least.
Geocities has been awful recently (last month or so?) – any interior links (file manager, upload, etc.) take me either back to the main page or to some ‘try it free’ page . . . this repeats several times before working correctly. Stats are also frequently wrong.
December 5th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Oh,come on peoples,I mean that it is FREE,it’s not like it avoidable.Accidents do happen,so we shouldn’t blame yahoo.After all, you can’t predict the future, can you?
December 5th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Oh,come on peoples,I mean that it is FREE,it’s not like it avoidable.Accidents do happen,so we shouldn’t blame yahoo.After all, you can’t predict the future,can you?
December 6th, 2008 at 2:29 am
I still cannot access anything on Yahoo since yesterday. As soon as it comes on I am transferring everything to Google Mail. Its been flaky for a few weeks and I keep getting a message saying “can’t find the server” on and off for months. I thought it was my setup, obviously not.
December 6th, 2008 at 3:35 am
i couldnt sign out my yahoo mail account for a
week now so i always have to close my internet explorer windows,any idea how to solve this prob?
December 6th, 2008 at 4:32 am
redsquirrel…i’m a tech and it is your setup….yahoo mail is very reliable…and free…..so you might want to reconsider….
December 6th, 2008 at 4:33 am
they said it should be back to normal in hours! its three days now and i haven’t been able access my email and one of them is very important, im getting really fed up now
December 6th, 2008 at 9:18 am
It hasn’t even been 3 days since the maintenance began.
December 6th, 2008 at 6:43 am
My email hasn’t worked for 3 days..not just the 5th &now it is the morning of the 6th & I still can’t access mail!
December 6th, 2008 at 7:07 am
While I understand the argument that Yahoo! Mail is a free service “so people shouldn’t complain,” let’s not disillusion ourselves into believing that this is a magnanimous service bestowed on us. While Yahoo! Mail is free, it is free because companies pay Yahoo to advertise on the mail pages that we view everyday. The advertisers pay Yahoo for a captive audience that sees ads with every click of the mouse and every page view. The more page views Yahoo can offer up to potential advertisers, the more the advertisers pay. If no one uses free Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo loses advertising revenue. There’s a chance that the money Yahoo expends on techs, etc. to support free mail outweighs advertising revenue, but for some reason, I doubt that. So we’re scratching each others’ backs here, and we can absolutely complain but perhaps do so with a little more tact and thoughtfulness. No need to be rude.
December 6th, 2008 at 7:46 am
Years ago I became a beta tester for Google. Google mail has also had outages in the past. Others like MSN (Hotmail) have experienced glitches. No email provider is perfect as they are subject to outside (third party) influences and/or attackers. So, the bottom line is: take a deep breath….now exhale, repeat as necessary.
December 6th, 2008 at 8:19 am
Good to know it isn’t my fault. Yes Yahoo is a mess STILL Can’t go to my page and all my automatic log in’s are gone. have to sign in on everything so madding.. Hope the few hours get fixed soon..
Maybe Gmail is the way??
December 6th, 2008 at 8:37 am
I have not had any trouble logging in or reading my email, but I CANNOT reply to or forward any messages. I noticed this problem Wednesday night and now it’s Saturday, 11:30 am and still cannot forward or replay to any of my email. Is this part of the same problem or someother one. I have also used 3 different computers so I know it’s not the computer problem, it’s got to by a yahoo problem.
otherwise, I love using yahoo and have used it exclusively for many years
Candi Nelson
December 17th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
I have been having the same problems, but I cannot insert the address to forward an e-mail. I can only do it if I type in one address at a time. Ive never had a problem until now. I dont unerstand what happen.I also love useing yahoo and its my main e-mail address. I use it for job searches. I dont want to change. I just want it fixed.
December 6th, 2008 at 9:16 am
I paid the 20 bucks a year to eliminate the ads and I use my Outlook Express to send and receive my yahoo mail. Because I have been having major problems with my private domain’s email service thru Godaddy I have switched my main email address to Yahoo and have not had any problems. Godaddy sucks!!! If you have free email with yahoo be thankful you don’t have to shell out money for a domain and a host every month and then get poor service (Godaddy) with email.
December 6th, 2008 at 9:24 am
i guess it did not only affect the mail box but also messenger can not be accessed
December 6th, 2008 at 9:24 am
Cant restore my I M and cant sign off. My PC locks up. I liked my old Yahoo Messenger over your new one. Also says I am missing a file path. that also pops up and I cant send a I M ….!
December 6th, 2008 at 9:38 am
Ohhhh, All you poor babies…..How terrible, You can’t get e-mail for awhile, tsk, tsk…..And you same idiots will ……complain, when they don’t do any matainence and there is a problem…..Grow the hell up and act your age….Have a nice day :):):)
December 6th, 2008 at 9:46 am
just out of curiosity, what areas are being affected? What cities and states? I live 70 miles east of Los Angeles, CA and I am not having any problems.
December 6th, 2008 at 9:48 am
just out of curiosity, where does everyone live that is being affected by this problem? I live 70 miles east of Los Angeles and no problems here.
December 6th, 2008 at 10:29 am
Can`t say I have had a problem here in NZ. If I had, I would find something else to do. With anything electronic, it does not take much to cause a glitch. Patience is a virtue, which very few possess.
December 6th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Yahoo email is free, so why are you complaining. Why not trying and pay for your email service. I have dsl with email and use Yahoo anyway. If you don’t like Yahoo go to gmail or some other carrier.
December 6th, 2008 at 11:53 am
As it has been said, when you are not paying for something and Yahoo has always been a good site why complain? I have had Yahoo over 5 years and this is the first time something like this has happened.
Patience is a virtue
December 6th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Few hours? It’s been a month since I am unable to acces my e-mail :( this is sad… I tried contact yahoo help, nothing works… :(
December 6th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
I have been having problems (serious ones) for the las two days…
How long will this take place????
I haven’t even been able to access to Yahoo in order to report the issue…
December 6th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Hey,
Stop whining already, it will soon be fixed and besides why are u all worried anyways. It will get fixed. And u people need to get a life
December 6th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
If we lived in a perfect world we wouldn’t need wrenches. :-)
December 6th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Did this affect my groups where they are “bouncing”? all of my groups are bouncing and I would like them to become unbounced.
December 6th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
I cannot access the photo sharing on my yahoo messenger.
What should I do?
December 6th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Have been having problems with a program called “searchmo” that
says it has to close internet service. After seven days during which
time I also can not access my computer’s control panel, it is a pain
in the neck…please advise…Thanks
December 6th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
keep up the good work guys and gals at yahoo! i feel badly you are getting so much heat from everyone…..it is inconvenience but hey, we should be thanking you for yahoo everything!!
hugs
December 7th, 2008 at 6:31 am
I have been able to get my mail but when I go to open something it takes forever (even my event calender) then this message pops up in the viewing area:
“We’re sorry, but there appears to be a problem loading the message . Click here to try again. I click the try again and keep getting the same message.
If I do a system restore for one day back I can read my mail again. I’ve tried the help section but have not seen anything close to what I am experiencing, this has been happening for the past month now. Is anyone else experiencing anything similar?
December 7th, 2008 at 7:08 am
I’m in Michigan and the mail has been working, but the security seal disappears. Wrote to the tech’s and they don’t have an answer except that it’s my set up. Haven’t changed a thing and the seal stayed on fine until Friday.
December 7th, 2008 at 7:52 am
Whew…..how helpless we all seem to have become in dealing with our internet trials and tribulations. A big new battlefield as challenging as our cars and clogged up roads .
We are in the driving seat , but whose in charge here, man or machine?
We choose frustration and anger don’t we?
December 7th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Just one more nail in Yahoo!’s coffin as far as I’m concerned, and I have many friends who feel the same way. Whatever the powers that be have chosen to do to Yahoo! over the past few months just….s**cks. I hate Yahoo! now. My home page doesn’t display properly nor do news articles most of the time, “My Yahoo” is all messed up, my Bookmarks do not display correctly, and I haven’t been able to send an email in more weeks than I can remember because there’s no field in which to type a message!!!!!!!!!! “Help” suggestions are laughable. I find myself using MSN and Google more and more.
Why did those in charge choose to mess with what I thought was a pretty good thing: Yahoo! as of 6 months ago.
December 7th, 2008 at 11:17 am
I haven’t received any of my emails -not even Spam – since Wed 12/3 – hardly the end of the world, but what gives? And for how long? And will those messages by lost forever?? Anyone have any insight?
December 7th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
i didn’t have any problems but yahoo is not good in arabic language
December 7th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
I don’t know why I bother anymore….
Not having functional web access to email wouldn’t be as problematic were it not for the lack of any other IMAP client option besides Zimbra, which is a piece of garbage. At least if Zimbra worked the way it’s supposed to, I could get to my messages to some degree, but it doesn’t help when it doesn’t sync up with Yahoo’s own servers. I mean come on… Yahoo owns Zimbra and they run their own email service… Compare that to GMail IMAP which works in practically every desktop client out there and on the web.
In fact, I think that Yahoo’s mail infrastructure couldn’t handle IMAP demand from desktop clients since it isn’t robust enough, hence they limit it to the Zimbra client which seems to work when it feels like it, because nobody’s bothered to use it.
Is offering POP Mail for a fee such a big deal anymore? Again, I don’t know why I bother, as Yahoo is slipping into the seas of irrelevance. Jesus… even AOL is offering IMAP for free.
December 7th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
WOAH MAN WOAH CHILLAX (=l) = you(=p) = me sssssoooooo chillax
December 7th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
im having problems making yahoo my default email. is it part of this problem if not please help me thank you
December 7th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Imagine being the poor stiffs who have to correct this “problem”. Under pressure to get everyone back on to their FREE Yahoo services.
In the many years I have used Yahoo, the problems have been far and few. Technology can suck at times. Just ride it out, maybe log off and go for a walk. Fresh air is a good thing
December 7th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
When will Yahoo! mail be working again!
I wanna check my e-mail!
Thanks.
From,
Fix it!
December 7th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
This is a lot of bovine defication. It seems that some people have a severe case of cranial rectosis, if you get my drift. HOW LONG IS A SHORT TIME? Or how short is a short time? Let’s either deficate or get off the pot!!!
December 8th, 2008 at 5:47 am
December 8-8:45 a.m. E.S.T.
My Yahoo E-Mail is still down, anyone else having the same/
December 8th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Yeah! I was having the same problem! It really sucked! But it’s December 8th at 4:42pm EST time right now so it’s all fixed! I couldn’t stand not going on my e-mail!
December 8th, 2008 at 7:28 am
The only thing I’m having a problem with is I can’t create a new catogory to store conacts. It says I can, and I type in the name for the new catagory, but then it doesn’t save anything.
Otherwise, life is good!
December 8th, 2008 at 9:55 am
I am still expierencing problems signing onto my yahoo messinger. Please give us an update as to when this will be FIXED.
December 8th, 2008 at 11:21 am
Ryan, while you are fixing things, how about fixing the glitch in Yahoo!Messenger that is saving IM sent, but not saving IM received. I have noticed that my replies to IM are being saved, but not the IM that I am replying to. This is frustrating, as it can be difficult to remember what the original IM said, when all you have is your answer to it. This is a recent phenomenon, in that its start seems to have coincided with the Version 8 Beta.
Thanks.
December 8th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
I was wondering, this seems to have coincided with my Firefox 3 download, which was working the day of the download, but not now. The Internet Explorer is working however. I’m wondering if there is any correlation.
December 8th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
you are all so hung up on this i have no e-mail its been days oh my gosh imagine people that dont have a place to live or money to pay their bills or to give their kids a christmas.be a little patient and appreciate the things that you do have
merry x-mas to all
thx yahoo for the hard work
December 8th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
I’m glad it’s up, running, and fixed now!
Thx yahoo! team.
December 8th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
I have been trying to see my emails on, and I cannot open my mail, including my folder.. why??
December 8th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
ugh…i’m getting fed up with my emails being sent late im about to change email provider RRrr..
December 9th, 2008 at 6:16 am
i keep getting alerts saying i have email…when i don’t. ??
December 9th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
I AM COMPLETELY ANNOYED THE LAST COUPLE DAYS IT WILL TAKE A BAGIILION YEARS TO LOAD…AND IT NEVER DOES FOR EMAILS! IT DOES THE FIRST 3..THEN ITS GONE!
December 9th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
YA , i have been getting the page that says cannot find page when i try to log into my mail! i can get onto yahoo.com just not yahoomail.com!
December 9th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
I have been unable to access email since 8:00am today, so currently about 6 hours. I am sure glad I have nothing important to look at or respond to. I get the same message as anamaria. I am in the US. I pay for the premium service. I have been on the phone with Yahoo for a couple of hours trying to solve the problem. Apparently Yahoo can access the account, so I don’t have a problem and I should use a different browser on a different computer. As painful as this is and I know everyone knows how painful it is becomming, I guess I will commiserate at gmail.
December 10th, 2008 at 9:53 am
I cannot find a phone number to call listed anywhere. Can you give me the number your calling please?
December 10th, 2008 at 4:31 am
All of my inbox messages are gone! What is the deal?
December 10th, 2008 at 9:40 am
What phone number can I call yahoo at to figure this out? Does anyone have it?
December 11th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
I don’t mean to sound snappish or rude or anything, but is Yahoo! still having this maintenance whatever thingie? I can’t access my Yahoo! mail at all… can’t login from any page (I tried My Yahoo and the mail.yahoo.com URL), from any browser, from any computer. Everything else works. Can someone explain to me what’s going on? Last time I used Yahoo! Mail was yesterday, at 7 p.m. in my country’s time (Indonesia), which makes it about 7 a.m. in the West Coast of USA.
December 11th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
This is now unacceptable. You’re fired.
December 12th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
yeah, I couldnt log into mail for about 10 minutes yesterday. and today I pull up a page in yahoo and it kicks me off the net.maybe it has something to do with the 1600 people they laid off at yahoo this week.
December 14th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
I AM HAVING PROBLEM SIGNING IN
December 15th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
emailing people in my address book & getting message in SPAM folder from YAHOO saying ” no MX or A record for (email address I emailed to)” Got this several times today-even when emailing other Yahoo contacts. I also just updated to Mozilla Firefox 3 before this happened. Anyone have a suggestion?
December 15th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
For the person who said “Why don’t you pay for your email” – well, I do pay yahoo for my personalized domain email.
Same issues. Stop doing maintenance (code word for it crashing).
December 15th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
why are my sister & I getting this message today when we email someone -”no MX or A record for (persons email address)” what does that mean? We both replied to people who had just emailed us. Is YAHOO now on everyone’s “blacklist”?
December 15th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
why am i being asked to install an application to set my Y! mail as my default email? I thought it already was.
December 15th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
What’s up with the email? It keeps redirecting me to the email start page. This really blows. Let’s switch to google, that would shake some things up. Then you woundn’t need to have anyone there at all. I thought we had decent service till now, when half of everyone is laid off
December 16th, 2008 at 3:32 am
I can’t log into my e-mail….for about 1 week.
December 17th, 2008 at 12:08 am
[quote= Comment by andrea: ]
Hey,
Stop whining already, it will soon be fixed and besides why are u all worried anyways. It will get fixed. And u people need to get a life[/quote]
we have a life, but guess what: we live in the internet century, these are job e-mails, so we really need them… well, it’s been 3 month since some of us are inable to acces e-mail, if we try to get some answers, these means whining? we expect answers from yahoo, not from a girl who tell us to get a life, grow up
December 17th, 2008 at 8:55 am
Millions of Yahoo! Mail Plus have been affected here. “Impacted” means something that is stuck and has to be removed by surgery. Ever hear of an impacted wisdom tooth. When two AUTOMOBILES collide, the result is an IMPACT!
December 19th, 2008 at 9:58 am
My page chenged a few days ago on my oldest email account and now I can’t open attachments have to forward them to another account what is with that ?
December 20th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
I always used to click the “My photos” link in email search to see all the photos in my emails that I hadn’t downloaded. Now ever since the new yahoo mail is out (I tried it for an hour and then went back to the clasic) the link doesn’t work. It says, “Sorry. There are no photos in the results matching the following criteria”. Also when I write a word to search email the same thing happens. Nothing comes up anymore when it used to. Also this “Yahoo connections suggestions” every time I go to my email is highly annoying. I don’t want to connect with people I never wrote! I hate the way Yahoo is changing. I’ve mentioned countless times how Yahoo was the best. That was before. I write Yahoo and they never respond with solutions. How can I fix the email search and stop the damn suggestion about connections to stop? Cheryl.
February 5th, 2009 at 8:15 am
I have been having this same exact problem and it is very annoying. I have sent Yahho emails regarding this and they just write back that they have checked my account and can’t duplicate the problem. Did this get fixed on your account? Is anyone else having this problems?
December 22nd, 2008 at 3:08 pm
My email has been out of action for about three weeks now. I am really sick of being directed to sign in over and over again. Even more galling is the fact that none of my requests for help have been responded to, via my alternate email address, crap customer service at its best. I am actually wondering if it will ever be fixed…………..
December 24th, 2008 at 1:39 am
I keep getting a “connection problem” when I try to send e-mails. Sometimes they go but mostly they do not – and it is not an address problem as it is to the same address. Very frustrating when there is no answers to be found on help.
December 25th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
This is 20 days after your announced problems and it appears to still not be resolved. Yahoo mail has gotten worse and worse.
I have hours and hours when my message bodies will not download or display.
I don’t use yahoo calendar but frequently have to wait and wait while it loads and reloads and errors out on calendar.
Stop working on new features and make the old features work properly. Yahoo mail used to be a great service. It is very bad now. I can no longer recommend it when friends ask looking for a new mail service.
December 28th, 2008 at 1:26 am
It still is NOT working!
Funny that it works on my desktop but not on my Acer laptop!???
January 4th, 2009 at 8:09 am
I was given a verification screen. I was asked to repeat characters that
‘were simply not there. They were not dim or distorted–they just weren’t
there. And I cannot send E-mail without going through this exercise.
Can I get help?
January 8th, 2009 at 7:46 am
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January 9th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
when is the Inbox going to be available? and thank you for getting rid of that obnoxious looking girl in the green sweater with her mouth hanging open.
January 9th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
Seems to me that they enjoy doing maintenance withou due consideration to the users. There is only the announcement of the maintenance but no committed date as when it will be up and running. As such, it is better to start reconsidering alternate service provider as back up. I understand this action will be unfair to Yahoo and to its disadvantage, of course unless Yahoo doen’t care. I’m frustrated too but this is the only recourse.
January 14th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
I can’t send nor receive any emails as my acct seems to be temp. suspended. I have sent messages to tech, which said that my acct works but i beg to differ. This is making me mad.
January 16th, 2009 at 8:37 am
I can’t access my mail box either, haven’t been able to for several days now. It shows I have messages in my inbox but when I click on it I receive an error message. I have reported it but am starting to get angry…. I need my email!!!!! Any suggestions?
January 20th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
I have had repeated problems for the past two years with missing messages I know were sent to me. I.E. I saw people send them with my correct address, and they never reach me. Lost in space. I always try to send a comment and get really lame replies telling me this doesn’t happen. Clearly, it does. I feel like I am on a target list by customer service since I complain so often. I really just want to have confidence in Yahoo again before changing services. Any help on that? I am not a blogger, and don’t have the time to be. Except that I saw another message on MyYahoo of change coming so I know I am going to lose even more. Please help me find where my missing messages from the last two years have gone so I can reclaim them!!!
January 21st, 2009 at 2:20 am
I never knew that the problem I was having with my Chat was from Yahoo – Maintenance work !!!. Just stumbled into Yahoo.blog this morning while I was searching for ‘Downloads’ to re-initialize my Yahoo Messenger,(if not within my mail, then possibly, definitely, from outside it. Pls. as requested in all comments, how long will the maintenance last ?
January 21st, 2009 at 8:16 pm
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January 22nd, 2009 at 3:31 am
i don’t what is happen my email when i open it, my email not same before and you can see down of my message which, if i open my same like this ….How can go back same before when I open my email….pls try to solve…upset that.
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January 22nd, 2009 at 5:16 am
I have been getting error code 2 for a week. Yahoo doesnt seem to care. Other members of my family had this problem but their accounts work now. Anybody have any sugestions?
January 23rd, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Yahoo. stinks. The tech says it is my system that is causing all these problems of getting e-mail. I am so tired having to sign on over and over again before I can even open anything If it is my system than why is it I can get comcast e-mail and google e-mail, and aol e-mail…they are flawless. Yahoo doesn’t know what they are doing. Just looking at the list of complaints on this blog…that sure proves it.
Yahoo is usless……just check out this blog list. What good is free if it is useles………………..YAHOO…..YOU STINK.
January 30th, 2009 at 7:26 am
Hi Ryan,
Can anyone tell me why the keypad dialer in YM is set up so that you can’t use the keypad to dial a phone number???? Try it. You really can’t do it. It flips down a menu that covers the numbers, every time you hit a number button. Really bad.
Thanks, Marie
February 6th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
can we get it easy?
February 8th, 2009 at 8:46 am
My problem is I can not download attachments let alone open them. This has been going on for about three weeks. I have reported it and do get a “we are working on it” response but no resolution. I really do not want to switch to gmail but may be forced since I do need to be able to open and read attachments.
February 20th, 2009 at 10:54 am
hi I am a seaman trying to open my email but can’t have access please can you solve my email problem thanks
February 21st, 2009 at 2:33 am
It is ironical that this maintenance job is taking so long. Oct 2008 I could not open my mailbox, always Error Code 2. After numerous reports, they fixed it. Two weeks ago, the same problem happened – I could only view my Address Book, was unable to ComposeMail or read mails. I logged in using Yahoo Messenger, and the new mail alert popped up. I have 5 unread emails. For two weeks now, I have not been able to open my mails! And Yahoo’s survey team did a customer satisfaction with me on this problem. Ironical, isnt it? Not one survey, but two. Arent they supposed to do surveys only after the problem is rectified? This is the problem when everything is automated. Where are the people? I m still waiting. BTW, my Yahoo ID is ieoc6013.
March 1st, 2009 at 10:40 am
For the last week, I have not been able to send emails – I keep getting error messages. when I try to “Refresh” the message tells me that Yahoo is not defined??????
March 2nd, 2009 at 6:44 am
Error code1 error code2 error code 1 error code2 the only reply you seem to get from yahoo no matter how many times you send the message and if they have answered I hope thy remember I can’t access my email. We rely to much on these accounts, is there a better or safer way to go To much of my life is into this email account.
March 4th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
I know how difficult trying to find then fix a problem;however I keep getting an error 5 that tells me I’ve stumbled onto..Blahsie Blahsie. I look at the possible reasons listed BUT none of them (there are 2) describe why I get the error code. The funny (not HaHA but peculiar) thing is I receive/send email with NO problems on my iphone.
This is not a good reflection on Yahoo or AT&T/yahoo mail.
March 7th, 2009 at 7:53 am
I am experiencing not being able to open my mail also..but I go bananas as i am hooked to my mail. I switched to yahoo mail cause I feel it is the best but I haven’t been able to open my mail for 24 hours without difficulty and I am bonkers. please fix it soon. thank you
March 18th, 2009 at 4:56 am
I understand that Yahoo has decided to “spruce up” my mail page. I don’t want the Chat and Mobile Text box in the middle of my Folders page! How can I make it disappear?
Also having to log on off and on during the day even though the box is checked to keep me signed in for 2 weeks.
March 19th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Using Windows Vista and not able to open or download attachements all of a sudden. I have to send them to other email program to access them. Anyone else having this problem?
March 24th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
error code2 — I can not open my mail . please help me. How can i do
April 2nd, 2009 at 7:38 pm
I think this was a great, ( customer – orientated ), well written article, that definitely had the incovenience of the users in mind !!
April 6th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Starting 7 of March I can no longer access the mail in my account.I can only see contacts, calendar and notepad.I spoke several times at yahoo case ID 8812033 and I don;t see any help, only to fill in other and other forms.
Please reactivate my mail on tatygeisheimer Yahoo ID.
April 6th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Yahoo was very dependable… since the “improvement” it has been a nightmare for me to even get my mail. If I see another “error code 1 or error code 2″, I think I may go postal. It seems to me that yahoo is trying to force me to “upgrade” and pay $20 for the year in order to provide a functional E-mail account. Thank God that I don’t rely on yahoo for my business to run, because after two months of this crap, I would be fighting over food in the dog dish.
May 3rd, 2009 at 5:08 pm
for some reason the yahoo home page changed on mozilla and since then I haven’t been able to log into my email. I can only seem to log in from work on internet explorer. Is there a way to get the old homepage back so I can access my email?
May 8th, 2009 at 7:12 am
I’ve been with Yahoo for about 8 months. My mail system has gotten slower and slower, opening and sending mail.I sent myself a mail and it NEVER came. I’ve been temporarily using another mail box because of this. I was totally in love with YAHOO in the beginning, now, not so much. I just had my puter checked out and all is fine. I expected to see an improvement after that, but it seems the problem is NOT on my end.
thanks for the opportunity to speak.