Yahoo Mail Problem

Nudge

Anyone having any problems with yahoo mail today ?
It was ok early on but now when I log on and select
mail it comes up with sorry your session as expired
and you need to confirm your password periodically.
I keep logging password again and select mail and it
is very hit and miss
I am not very good at problems like this but wonder if
any one else having same problem

Stompa

Lots of people are having the same problem, for example:

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20131224043138AAgnSFx

Nudge

Thanks for that reply Stompa
I will keep a check on it and hope it comes back
to normal

olias

Have just read this on yahoo answers.

'change the URL like this and you can get a working mail system until they fix it:

change ....../neo/launch... to ..../neo/b/launch... '

So you basically just add the '/b' (forward slash b) into the url. I have tried it and it works to get your email usable.

Olias

Nudge

I have just done what answers says to
Click On Gear Wheel
Click On Settings
Click On Viewing Email
Click On Basic
Click On Save

It is working ok on basic mail

KxMx

This is a useful website to check if things are down/up and often has user reports which can point to site problems.

Abbafan1972

I have just started having problems with my yahoo.co.uk address. I normally use Gmail to collect it, and all of a sudden I kept getting an error.

It seems I can send email from it but not receive.

Yahoo.com addresses seem to be ok, as hubby has one.

thefirs

The Yahoo mail problems began in mid-early December. the CEO of Yahoo has apologised for ongoing problems but starting 4 January a further round of access problems has occurred. In my case Pop3 reading of mail is impossible, though my mail client is able to send via smtp. Logging on to Web mail allows reading messages but you are likely to receive the 'need to confirm password' screen that suggests things like clearing cache/cookies etc.

Were it not such a pain in the proverbial to get contacts fully informed I would gladly shift to Gmail or even pay a few quid for a personal domain address. Yahoo's service is of course free which makes it harder to validly criticise but their efforts to implement a robust fix seem amateurish to date .

andydiysaver

have lost faith in yahoo, they can't get their act together, and are clearly struggling - I've kept the yahoo email but moved all the sensitive stuff elsewhere, it occurred to me that if they can't organise a P*** up in a brewery, then I clearly don't want sensitive stuff there like reset password emails from sites I use etc. Not wishing to scaremonger as it's unlikely we're looking at the whole thing being insecure, but practically, if they keep failing, and there's been many over the last couple of months, do you want anything of value stored there?

thefirs

Thanks to Expresso for his info at this post http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=64292264&postcount=2

End of problem...now why could they not have just kept us informed?

VfM4meplse

Sorry to be a bit Luddite, but I'm having the same problem with my yahoo account on the iPad (laptop access is fine). Signed out and back into the account - no luck. Then been into settings, deleted and added the account - again no help. Anyone?

Eta: got round it by downlink the app. My hand was forced.