Yahoo Mail is a mess now. We all HAD to go to the
"New" Yahoo Mail. I hate all the scrolling. I hate the
whole look. And, yeah, it was down earlier. It's
working for me now, though. See link.

Here is a link that might be useful: New YAHOO

thamnks.
No wonder I am having trouble. I don't recall ever getting an email saying it was changing but obviously it has

My Yahoo mail is okay. A while back, when they told us we could change, I decided to stay with what I had. So it has been okay ever since. Hope they don't make a change now.

Sue

Sue if you read the article you will see there is no choice they are completely doing away with the old yahoo period. There's no choices other than accept their new terms and new UI or close your account. I don't use my yahoo or Gmail account for correspondence, I am happy with my Hotmail. I just don't agree that they should have the right to read/scan our private email. Unfortunately we are are being forced to have less and less privacy.

Sue if you read the article you will see there is no choice they are completely doing away with the old yahoo period. There's no choices other than accept their new terms and new UI or close your account. I don't use my yahoo or Gmail account for correspondence, I am happy with my Hotmail. I just don't agree that they should have the right to read/scan our private email. Unfortunately we are are being forced to have less and less privacy.

I don't like it either,i can never pull up my contact list.So how can you send email if you can't find your contacts??
Kathi

I've been using the new version since it first came out. At first I didn't like it, but now I don't think of it. It's easy to use.

Kathi, don't you have a Contact tab? It's right along with the Inbox and Calendar tabs.

When you click on a message it has a tab at the top so you can have multiple messages open and just click the tabs to view the open messages.

usually when you create a new email you can just click on the word To and the list pops up, or you start typing and it pops up matching items to choose from.

I read the article and it says beginning the week of June 3, 2013, older versions of Yahoo! Mail (including Yahoo! Mail Classic) will no longer be available. Doesn't give a final ending date, and I haven't gotten an email about it. So I'm waiting as long as possible, and will accept the new terms.

What harm could that be, other than being another nuisance? Better than having to change my email address I think. If it becomes too bad, I can change then.

After all, Yahoo mail is free, not like the newspaper where I pay for all those ads I never look at.

Wondering if there will be a Final Warning date?

Sue

my sister got her notice from them yesterday and it gave no options, she was not aware of this happening.

My neighbor emailed me about it and wanted to know if her contact list would be harvested, she does all the email for her church group. I would guess that they have access to all of it since it is on their servers. Hopefully they won't stoop that low.

ravencajun,

That's what I used to do,but it doesn't work anymore,and I never got a notice that they were changing either.

And on outlook I can't get the BCC to come up.I don't like putting everyones addy out there.I did email outlook a few weeks ago,never heard anything back from them.

I know i'm not totally tech savvy,but i'm not stupid either,which is what I feel like when trying to do all these new things.

Guess I can brag though that I finally got photobucket figured out,so yeah for me.There's hope for me yet!!! LOL
Kathi

I think some of you are overstating the case. As I understand it, it's a software driven context review for ad placement and nothing more.

It's the same as Google or any other search engine does when you do a search (look how the ads magically bear some connection to your search term and your location). It's what Gardenweb does when you're reading forums, the pages show ads triggered off of key words.

You can't stop the machine analysis but if you don't like the ads, tack an ad-blocker on your browser.

There's no geek with thick glasses reading your nasty email to your sister. There may be other things in the world invading your privacy but I don't think this is anything to worry about.

I have ads turned off thru Firefox, so I see none at my Yahoo mail.
The formatting itself has changed. That's what annoys me.
You now have scrolling windows and you can't expand
the viewing area like you used to. Not to mention that
obnoxious "trending on Yahoo" message.

For the past month I have had to go through Yahoo's captcha verification step in which I must enter a string of letters and numbers before I can send an email. I find this to be a big pain.
Have you all experienced this new step??
They indicate it is necessary to prevent spam...I find that curious because I receive tons of spam every week mostly with asian alphabet characters and from other foreign email domains.

Why is yahoo penalizing its users with this because of spammers who typically send out thousands of emails at a time?

Is there a revamped "Terms of service" agreement?

Do we get to the new service without agreeing to a new "Terms of service" agreement - or have we signed that away when we first agreed to use their service?

ole joyful

Yahoo email must be unusually vulnerable to being hacked, as it has happened to friends of mine many times. Maybe Yahoo is making changes in an effort to stop this.

I changed over to the new system and quite liked it but recently I'm getting more and more spam, fortunately I've learnt to recognise most of it and just delete it.

However now I'm getting another problem. I can read my emails in the inbox and when I try to go back into my inbox or any other folder, it wont let me. It's not all the time but still very annoying.

I'm thinking of leaving yahoo but really don't know which provider to go with. Any suggestions please????

I mainly use gmail for everyday use. But had used yahoo for a long time, and have 3 yahoo addresses I use for different things.

So far, I am still using the old classic version. So far, I have no complains.

I prefer not to change. I like things to stay the way I get used to them.

Guess I am getting old?

:)

Moni

well there's the usual ones like Hotmail, Gmail, inbox, mail. com, gmx.com I have had a gmx account for years it's a nice option and I get no spam. zoho and hushmail are on the usual top lists.

here's a link to some ratings, remember they are free so why not just try them out, having a few extra accounts for signing up with is a good idea to help keep spam out of your main account. And if you want to be rid of advertising try adding ad block plus with the easy list to Firefox browser it will eliminate the problems.

Here is a link that might be useful: ratings

Thank you ravencajun. I'll try gmx.com, sounds good. ad block plus sounds good too so may try that as well. Many thanks for your help.

Oklamoni, thank you too. I tried gmail a few years ago but was inundated with spam so I got rid of it. Maybe it's improved since I tried it.

Ravencajun, I've set up a gmx addy and on first impressions I'm very happy with it. It has everything I got from Yahoo and more. thank you so much for your advice.