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Anonymous asked in Yahoo ProductsYahoo MailOther - Yahoo Mail · 8 years ago

what's wrong with yahoo mail?

I can see my inbox and read individual emails, but when I attempt to reply to anyone I cannot type into the reply form. The reply form comes up with blank TO: field and a blank SUBJECT: field. It will not let me type into any of the form boxes. This only happens with Yahoo mail. It does not happen with any other mail service. Do I really have to move all my accounts to gmail? I think this is probably the best solution because Yahoo is broken more than it works!

Update:

I can't compose new mails either. This is really a bummer as I need to communicate with people who know me by my yahoo email. I am a subscriber on a number of email interest group lists ... I cannot submit my posts to those lists from a different email address since they will be rejected as coming from an unknown address.

This is like the third time in three months that Yahoo has put totally untested revisions online that cripple the entire community of users. Are they trying to commit some sort of hari-kari in front of a world audience? It certainly seems like it.

Yahoo, if you don't want to be in the email business, just send everyone a memo and tell us we have 90 days to find different providers. We can understand that. What we can't deal with is these "upgrades" the break email and make us all angry. It's like being pecked to death by a flock of geese.

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  • 8 years ago
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    I have the same issue mates. I have been using yahoo as my primary account and this is not the only time i have got frustrated with yahoo mail. mostly with its flashy updates. If you are listening Yahoo! what we need is a convenient email service. Making it more flashy at the cost of a jerky mail service wont do. Gmail is not flash at all but it seem to be able to help us with most of our needs as email users. We are grateful to Yahoo! for its mail and we still stand by it. But if you cant mange the flashy upgrades please, please , please add a feature where we can go to previous versions. I would be much happy to work with them than to go through the hassle of working on flashier versions.

    Thanks...

    Source(s): My own yahoo experience for the past few days...:(
  • 8 years ago

    Same problem here! I have two yahoo accounts and cannot enter a subject matter or a message. The only way I can get an address entered into the addressee box is to do so from the contact list. I do not have time for this.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    There seems to be a basic system bug that Yahoo are still working on ... in the meantime ... using IE, the fix is to go to "Tools" and switch to "compatibility mode". The cursor will then reappear in the subject line and you will be able to type end edit as usual.

    No fix for Chrome yet.

    I just did this today after finding this info from 4 years ago.

  • 8 years ago

    When i write an email and place the letter of the name on the "to" line-my address book comes up-

    i check the name I want BUT it does not go on the "to" line.

    I can't even copy and past from the address book either.

    i can't send email unless I enter the entire address every time.

    when is yahoo going to actually answer a question????????

    I'm so sick of killing time trying to get yahoo to work for me.

    YAHOO expects the community to answer questions only YAHOO should answer.

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  • ?
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    A couple of days ago there was a brief outage that effected a very small number of users. Since I cannot replicate this problem in your account currently, and see you've since sent mail and received mail, it seems likely you were temporarily effected by this outage.

    I assure you the nature of the problem has been fully repaired, and you shouldn't experience this issue again.

    We are also working on enhancing our real-time communication for these issues, which should help you in the future if a problem of this nature occurs.

    We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused.

    Source(s): I'm a Yahoo! Customer Care Employee
  • 7 years ago

    Consistently can not access Yahoo mail. This is very annoying and I hope that I don't have to go

    to another carrier.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Where is Yahoo!? Why is this happening at all? Every time Yahoo updates messenger it will force its toolbar or its friends software to be installed (even you say no). Now, I cannot send message to get Yahoo voice service refund.

  • 7 years ago

    I am tired of getting on yahoo and the mail not working! I have important documents in there and can't retrieve them!!!!! What is up YAHOO?????

  • 7 years ago

    I can't open yahoo mail, it keeps hesitating, why won't it let me get in my email?

  • 7 years ago

    Constant malfunction messages, errors, and just plain nothing. Give us back a Mail that actually works!

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