Monday, May 24, 2010

Are weird things happening to your Yahoo email account?

A few days ago, my mailbox said that I had 65525 new emails!!! When I opened my box, there were no new messages. Now I'm getting an error that says unusual activity has occured and I am suspended from sending, receiving for 48 hours. I have sent an email to Yahoo help, but I was wondering if anyone else was having any problems.

Are weird things happening to your Yahoo email account?
Yahoo has been having major server issues since at LEAST Jan. 10, seemingly just with particular servers. And what's happening to you (including the "phantom" e-mails) is unfortunately one of the many problems that people are having because of them, and Yahoo doesn't seem to be in any particular hurry to solve them. Their "tech support" is nothing but a joke right now. And the problems are not just w/Yahoo Beta or IE7; I and others not using either are having similar problems. But both do have more problems; if you're using Beta, it's still in the testing stage and has a lot of problems, so go back to original Yahoo mail, and the same w/IE7, go back to IE6 until MS irons out all the problems.


I've had to use another acct.provided free by my ISP to send/rcv important e-mails since Jan. 10, and it's been working just fine the whole time. If you don't have another acct.w/another provider besides Yahoo, I'd strongly advise to get one; it makes a good backup in case of problems like this.


Please see my posting from Fri. Jan. 12 under the heading "Anyone having problems of any kind w/Yahoo Mail, PLEASE READ THIS" for more info and on reporting problems to Yahoo.


And since that original posting, they've also sent another e-mail that they've escalated the problem (or should I say problems!) to their engineering department, which is an indication of major problems, and not just a minor S/W "glitch."
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Reply:Yes, Yahoo is saying we have over 4oooMB of mail and are suspended from receiving new mail and we atually have 0% of our capacity. Yahoo answers are not satisfactory.
Reply:Hi,


BETA MEANS TESTING! It lasts for at least 6 months!!!


NOTE: Use BETA software at your own risk; it is intended for testing and evaluation purposes only. Do not install beta software on your primary computer or production environment. That was from Microsoft help pages.





My first suggestion is to use your ISP, Internet Service Provider mail accounts if you are having problems that can't be corrected by going back to IE6 and Yahoo! Original Mail!!!





To get in mail:


You will have less problems with original mail if you sign in via Messenger! Go to preferences, general, then check box: Automatically sign me in when I click a Yahoo! link in Messenger. Or go to My Yahoo and click on your mail link. Or Click on the Big RED Y! on the Yahoo! Toolbar. Bottom line is any link that already has you signed in!!!





This has been going on for over a couple of months now. It is a server problem between IE7 and BETA MAIL.


This is the only thing that I have found for a fix until testing is over. So, if you don't have BETA MAIL or IE 7 and are having some of the following problems, contact Technical Support: http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/mail/c...





Error fixes on help pages were for Original Mail before Beta Mail was offered. That is why they don't seem to be helping very much since the testing has begun: http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/error...





These are the most resent problems reported to Yahoo! Questions:


CANNOT COMPOSE REPLY OR SEND MAIL


http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/send/...


YOUR LOG-IN SESSION HAS EXPIRED:


http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/acces...


CAN NOT FIND SERVER: Go to Tools, Internet Options and on the general tab, Delete Cookies, Temporary Files and Clear History. That should do it for you!





I believe it will solve MOST, MOST, all the problems people are having if you Switch Back to Original Mail, until it is out of the TESTING STAGE. AND IF YOU HAVE IE7 or IE8, uninstall it by going to Start Control Panel/Settings and then Add and Remove Programs. Try it and if it doesn't solve your problem just SWITCH BACK TO BETA MAIL!


Hope this helps you
Reply:Things are running smoothly on yahoo for me today. No weird messages.


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