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[kaysixteen]

Anyone else having problem accessing yahoo mail?  My account will open but I cannot open any emails or move any files...

[prytania3]

My account is fine today. Sometimes when Yahoo gets wanky, it's area specific.

[itried]

My Yahoo mail is okay today, but I regularly have problems instant messaging between my Yahoo and friends' Hotmail accounts. I can never pinpoint whether it's Yahoo or Hotmail; I assume it's Yahoo because of its limitations as a communication system overall.

[barred_owl]

Yahoo is consistently slow to load on my computer, ever since they made their so-called "improvements" to their email system.

I haven't had any file-opening or file-moving problems, but it just seems to take forever to get to the new emails list.  Arrggghh!

Something about all the danged ads that appear on Yahoo pages is my suspected culprit...

[pigou]

An incentive to open a Gmail account? ;) You can have it automatically pull in all your yahoo e-mails (old a new), if that's a concern.

[kaysixteen]

The thing still will not work, cannot open any emails or files, and the tabs which would allow me to do so are not there.  Winked out on Thursday afternoon.  I sent a request to the help desk Friday, got a response (on my alternative hotmail account), but it seems actually a rather automated response, does not seem like the technician read anything, even though there is a guy's name listed.  He asked for additional details which I have just now sent-- remember I pay for being a 'premium user', so they have to do something sorta to help me.  I have had the yahoo account as my primary email account for a decade now, and have tons and tons of saved messages on numerous files.  I was unaware till just now that I could get a gmail account and get it to grab over all my yahoo files-- is this difficult and costly?  I am eager for any excuse to dump yahoo, which is very subpar in its service quality, even with its ostensibly fantastic and highly-touted 'upgrades' last year...

[pigou]

I was unaware till just now that I could get a gmail account and get it to grab over all my yahoo files-- is this difficult and costly?

Not at all difficult and everything about Gmail is free. How you set it up depends a little on what your intentions are with the yahoo address.

If you want to abandon the address, this is the way to go: Import Emails From Another Provider
Takes all of 30 seconds to set up, and Gmail will pull all your contacts and mails from Yahoo (the actual download will take a while, especially if you have a lot of emails). It will continue to get the mail going to your Yahoo account for another 30 days, giving you time to update your contacts on your new address. I'd then set yahoo mail to auto-forward to your new gmail address, or to set a vacation message that will give people your new gmail address. The vacation message would confirm to spammers that your e-mail is valid, but Gmail's filter is exceptional - in 5 years, I have not received a single spam mail in my inbox.

If, however, you want to keep your yahoo address, you want to use this: Mail Fetcher
(The yahoo server is pop.mail.yahoo.com)

This option will also get all your Yahoo emails (and you can choose whether or not to keep a copy of the e-mail on yahoo or delete it from there) - and it will do so indefinitely. Moreover, you will be able to send mail using your @yahoo.com address from within gmail. One thing to keep in mind is that the tool checks for new mail once an hour. That may not be sufficiently frequent for a primary mail address.

The second way also doesn't import your contacts. That should be fairly easy to do manually. See here for Yahoo instructions (make sure you select exporting as a CSV), and here for how to importing the CSV file into Gmail.

[kaysixteen]

Thanks for the info, Pigou.  Turns out the problem was not yahoo per se, but an issue with the (presumably pretty old) version of Internet Explorer being run, if you can call it that, on this probably a decade old office computer at the school, on which I use my mail (I am paid far too little to hook up my own superannuated PC tot he net at home, not if I also want cable).  I ended up going on the yahoo premium member chat help service and talking with a techie there, who ended up checking my account for herself, seeing that it worked, and then had me download Mozilla Firefox, to be a new browser.  It works fine.  And so does yahoo.

[helpful]

Firefox is way better than IE.
Why can't you get cable internet, ie internet through your cable provider?

[kaysixteen]

Because I can not really afford the cable by itself, have to struggle to make the payments.  Cannot afford to add the internet service to the deal.  We multitask here at the Christian school, but we do not do it for much money...

[pigou]

You might want to consider Chrome instead of Firefox. Particularly on older computers, the lightweight interface really adds value. It can be downloaded here: https://www.google.com/chrome/index.html

[fiona]

My Yahoo sometimes gets cranky for no reason, but it usually resolves itself within half an hour or so.

For what that's worth.

I cc most important stuff from Yahoo to a Gmail account, in part because I've never figured out how to use the Cloud Dropbox thingy.

The Fiona

[annmarie]

I'm having trouble with my Yahoo this morning!