Yahoo MailReviews 289

My first email was Hotmail now Outlook and then Yahoo. Yahoo still has problems with spam and gmail does not as much. I think people don't unsubscribe; just mark it as spam. I got back in to one of my hacked accounts. I don't want scammers to scam my friends. I use a Password Manger and had no problems. The problem is when you create a password you can remember the scammers can get into that account. And, any other account you use with the same password.

I just got locked out of one of my accounts because Yahoo thought it would be a good idea to randomly ask their users with their mandatory security questions if they think that "it's not you" who's signing in your email. I forgot the answer to the security question, so I can't access my account anymore. Now, I'm furious with the stupidity induced by the dumb***** who work at Yahoo.

Oh, and one of my accounts were compromised according to Yahoo's automated system emails when I opened it. According to the automated messages, it was sending russian emails to russian websites.

And when you sign in, they keep asking you for information like your mobile number or some random crap involving account security. Well, they're just doing those so you will think that they're secure and they work with effort on that field, but it's not and they fall flat on their faces instead.

I used to really enjoy reading Yahoo's news site. It was one of those places that I could find some interesting articles, and they send me down a rabbit trail of a couple of hours of reading!;-) Recently though, it seems like every headline that looks interesting ends up being a video. I don't want to watch a video! I want to read! Often I don't have sound handy at a school computer terminal, or I don't want to let my workmates know that I found an interesting news piece. Please bring back more articles, and I will spend more time reading them.

I love yahoo mail. Love the layout and easy to navigate I like it better than gmail but there is one thing that I choose to just use gmail instead of yahoomail and thats because yahoomail keeps locking me out of my account. Iv made countless accounts and ill type in my password and its not the right password but it is i have the same password for all of my accounts so i dont forget them and it locks me out. Wtf yahoo! Im guessing they may have an issue with account hackers or something thats the only guess i could have. Oh well i guess.

So it's 1:30 am on a weekend in mid-October 2013 and the internet is full of hate over yahoo mail's slow and buggy changes to their interface, and I'm one of those haters who are switching everything over to gmail and completely abandoning this nasty yahoo mail thing I've been using for so many years because I've been trying to download an attachment for hours, and their mail search function is not accepting the letters "l" and "k." What does Yahoo have against "l"s and "k"s tonight? If I want to search for other letters, and even punctuation marks like a semicolon, that's not a problem.

More importantly, at least one email that I composed and sent which was now located in the "Sent" folder had not been received after over 12 hours and a file that had been sent to me as an attachment could not be downloaded. Most media outlets are reporting this as a "user preference" issue about tabs or the interface, but a few of them are getting it right. From http://www.cnet.com.au/yahoo-mail-redesign-plagued-with-bugs-*******.htm:

"... the mail service itself is failing at its core function: as a means of sending electronic communication. Emails are failing to be delivered, arriving up to 24 hours after the original email was sent, inboxes are disappearing entirely, the "reply" function has stopped working and contacts are being deleted."

For thousands of years before the internet, humans relied on mail to do two things: send information and receive information. Yahoo Mail is failing to do what a guy on a horse with a bag full of papyrus or hides did in the ancient world.

A snarky and usually correct older relative recommended gmail to me when it came out years ago, and he switched over right away, but no! I had to stay with yahoo and trust these people when I should have listened to him. And if you knew this particular relative and my own obstinate self, you'd have some idea about the ridiculously petty pain I'll be experiencing when I have to admit to him that YES, I learned my lesson and am now switching everything over to google and I'll never trust yahoo with a damned thing again.

This company's webmail is still considered the largest per amount of accounts worldwide. They've been around for years, 15 years, now. Though the company has been under the business media's scope for months, this e-mail application is very well tested and has ease of use with neat practicalities.

The free accounts allow many folks to have multiple accounts, as needed. They do have some degree of spam filtering, and one can further set-up greater filtering, if chosen. Also, they have an ID authentication, and one can sign-on from Facebook and Google. Also, they have a classic version of the webmail for individuals that prefer the old-school style, especially the dinosaurs with accounts over 10 years. The present version is about a year old – I've used their webmail service for years.

Thank you Yahoomail. They have been a good friend to me unlike hotmail. They had a technical issue where one could not send emails. I managed to contact them and got back a response from them and the problem was fixed with an apology. Thank you Yahoomail. I love the fact that you can have a live chat with the technical team but their help site needs to be a bit more user friendly so that in case of emergency technical difficulties one can know where to easily search for the contact section on the site to contact them. I actually had to use the feedback section to contact them about my problem but thankfully it all worked out.