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bucolic_frolic

(49,535 posts) Fri Feb 28, 2025, 08:01 AM Feb 28

Yahoo Mail has erased my accounts and scrambled the remaining one

Lost 25 years of archiving. Someone should sue for incompetence.

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Yahoo Mail has erased my accounts and scrambled the remaining one (Original Post) bucolic_frolic Feb 28 OP

Me, too. Since yesterday. marble falls Feb 28 #1

Yahoo tried to bribe me into buying their paid email Hokie Mar 1 #2

Is there any way to get your formatting back? They changed it once, asked how I like it. I lambasted them and got it efhmc Mar 7 #3

It looks like they "streamlined" it to some extent. bucolic_frolic Mar 7 #4

This message was self-deleted by its author douglas9 Mar 9 #5

Accidentally deleted emails, then UNDO command, and they recovered. bucolic_frolic Mar 23 #6

marble falls

(64,355 posts)

1. Me, too. Since yesterday.

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Fri Feb 28, 2025, 08:22 AM

Feb 28

Hokie

(4,349 posts)

2. Yahoo tried to bribe me into buying their paid email

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Sat Mar 1, 2025, 10:51 AM

Mar 1

I have had a Yahoo email address for over 20 years. Yahoo mail has become a fetid cesspool of nothing but spam. Yahoo wants me to pay for email that might be better. I am not buying. I had MyYahoo as my home page for even longer than that. Yahoo suddenly removed the MyYahoo page about a month ago without notice. I removed Yahoo from my bookmarks.

efhmc

(15,357 posts)

3. Is there any way to get your formatting back? They changed it once, asked how I like it. I lambasted them and got it

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Fri Mar 7, 2025, 06:22 PM

Mar 7

back, but no changing back this time. It was set up perfectly with the ability to go between my personal email and my business which is not a yahoo address. Now opens to the business and I have to search for my personal.

bucolic_frolic

(49,535 posts)

4. It looks like they "streamlined" it to some extent.

Reply to efhmc (Reply #3)

Fri Mar 7, 2025, 06:29 PM

Mar 7

The original mail if you marked something as spam accidentally, it was spam forever, no undo.

Now, we no longer have that problem, but like you say they're collating incoming into different folders and to see it all except those marked as spam you have to click "All". And as a bonus, a daily spam seems to like into the email box as "Offers".

Let's face it, Yahoo never got anything 100% right. But it does work better than the first day last week.

I'm still wary of repeated offers to create backup addresses because I've created them before. There is backup email, backup phone, and now they're pushing 2-step authorization (as are eBay, some financial accounts). Sometimes I wish I could toss it all.

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bucolic_frolic

(49,535 posts)

6. Accidentally deleted emails, then UNDO command, and they recovered.

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Sun Mar 23, 2025, 02:55 PM

Mar 23

Next day they're gone. I don't even know what I lost, all from the last 3 months.

Sometimes I see the wisdom of using PC based email like Outlook or Thunderbird.

But cleaning up 25 years of emails is a major project.

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