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KI-MSNG6595528: Yahoo Messenger sending old messages?
Description: This addresses an issue where customers are reporting that Yahoo Messenger is sending months old instant messages and/or SMS messages
Current Status: Our engineers are actively investigating this issue and working to provide a resolution as quickly as possible.
Workaround: There is no workaround at this time.
This Known Issue post is for Yahoo! staff to communicate current known issues to benefit Yahoo! customers. We do not gain extra Answers points for questions added to this “Known Issues” category.
The Yahoo Messenger Product Team has found a fix for this issue and it should now be resolved. If you continue to experience this issue, please reply to this post and let us know!
15 Answers
- Anonymous8 years agoFavorite Answer
The obvious point is that Yahoo is storing SMS texts on a server somewhere, for months or longer, even if the user chooses to archive nothing either locally or on the server. Care to address that, Yahoo?
- 8 years ago
I reported the issue of yahoo messenger failing to send sms messages two months ago and i was blown off. Now the same messages that failed to send are sending. My daughter has received close to 70, my son has received over 30 and my EX girlfriend has received quite a few as well. If someone has issues with an ex, this isn't going to help the situation at all
- 8 years ago
This situation started for me last night and as of just 1 hour ago, current time being 4:21 p.m. EST, another old SMS message was sent.
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- yodeladyhooLv 58 years ago
My boyfriend(now ex-boyfriend, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, YAHOO!) lost of his text messages for this month because of this SMS spam/my old SMS texts to him. Can Yahoo offer any way for him to get a credit with his carrier?
- 5 years ago
the new yahoo messenger is no good , because of that your loosing lots and lots of yahoo fan because of your new yahoo messenger , before its too late pl wake up yahoo.
- 7 years ago
my online friend broke off our relationship because she received and old message and thought I had messaged another person by accident and does not understand it was a delayed message sent to her a longtime ago
- 8 years ago
I am still experiencing the issue. and not only that but messages addressed to me are being received by another one of my contacts!!! what a breach of privacy! Please Help!
