Yahoo Email

[Dave_n]

For those of you using web-based email, there is a solution. Perhaps not the simplest, but I'm happy. I use Outlook as a stand-alone client on my computer. Not their web-based Outlook. Some folks call it Look Out.

I have a lot of email addresses for various purposes on a number of servers / providers. It would be a colossal pain to go to each site via the web, log in and process email. Outlook is connected to all my accounts. IMAP or POP doesn't matter. Best of all, they all appear the same in Outlook. One client for all my email needs. It is a bit of a headache to set up with Gmail and Yahoo, but if you follow the directions it's do-able.

With Outlook as a single client, I'm not subject to the whim of one provider "improving" their interface and confounding me. Yes, Microsoft can wreak havoc and confound us. At least that appears across all my accounts, in one place. Thankfully, Microsoft doesn't mess too much with Outlook and they do support it.

Oh yes Microsoft does. Never move to te "new Outlook" if you can avoid it. All sorts of things "under the hood" are altered, and the methods of returning were designed by Elon Musk!! Dave_n

 

[RobertK3026]

I used My Yahoo! as my homepage for many many years. Never used their mail, though. Kept columns of news feeds and a full set of my personal shortcuts on it. Several months ago they announced they were dropping the My Yahoo! as they no longer would provide the service. I gave up looking for something I could customize and made a simple html start page file, stored locally, and set my browsers to use the local file as my start page.

I just want a simpler internet experience back. No AI. No intrusions.

I too used my yahoo as a homepage, and it ticks me off they shut it down.
I now use the Mozilla Firefox homepage and I found an extension in their settings called raindrop.
It can be loaded as a side bar and you can put all your shortcuts there, also Microsoft's home page also has some short cuts I use for my daily pages.
Good Luck

 

[schutz5]

Yahoo must be doing what it can to lose accounts or shift long time users to the paid service.
I relied on a yahoo address up to about 3 years ago when it suddenly disappeared. Terrible customer service and finally simply got a response that they can delete an account at their discretion.
I lost alot of important archived emails. I even offered to pay for the subscribed services if they restored my data.

I abandoned them and use proton mail.

 

[Rustyt1953]

I have used Yahoo Mail for over two decades and to date I remain glitch free.

 

[Narragansett]

Yes, but it is still not the same in appearance as the old mail.

Right! I use a larger font, and can no longer find a way to increase the size

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

The new format does not have a "Delete" function, I use that regularly.

 

[jeffrefrig]

This is starting to get too technical for me, like the old "Is zero a number?" conversation where at least one person's blood pressure is a couple points higher after they go back to what they were doing.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

"I know engineers, they love to change things." Dr. McCoy in "Star Trek: The Motion Picture".
What happened to the idea of "user friendly" ?
Like stores where they rearrange the aisles and you spend half your time looking for what used to be in Aisle No. 2, now it's in....

 

[Nevada Ed]

I miss the old days of...... "You've got mail".

They keep on changing their formats, and not for the better.
I just got my new set up fixed to where I receive mail, again.

One reson I bought a new phone, instead of mt old flip flop,
just to get messages or calls, if needed.

 

[James K]

The new format does not have a "Delete" function, I use that regularly.

Click the single open box at the top and all boxes next to each email will illuminate and a menu will appear that has the delete function among other commands.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

Just restored mine, thanks for the info.

 

[The Last Standing Knight]

I despise the new yahoo email format. And I've written that several times whenever they ask for comment. I'm convinced they don't care if their customers hate it.

I agree. Fact is just like many businesses these days, they have the mindset of "you need us more than we need you..." with their customer base.

I have been having problems off and on with them for weeks.

I expect within the next two or three years, Yahoo Mail will no longer be a free service...it will be a subscription. They seem to be gearing it towards that direction. They aren't the only ones that appear to be doing this, either.

 

[vt_shooter]

I even subscribed to Yahoo's "Pro mail" that costs $5/month. I reasoned they give me a service that's valuable to me, and they deserve something for it. But still they don't give me the option to revert back to the old email. They did allow me to revert back a couple times during the past year or so, but they have switched me back to the new format I think 3 times, and now they aren't including the option to revert back. Yahoo should fire whomever is making those decisions. Somebody mentioned Proton email - I should investigate that further.