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When is mail going to work? - 317 - 05-17-2014 06:42 PM
Email has been down for 2 days now. It was up for a bit this am...now it says your are updating again....
- wizjp - 05-17-2014 06:45 PM
The Latest: Try checking the Yahoo Facebook page:
A number of Yahoo Mail users abruptly lost access to their email on Monday night. Two days later, the outage is still ongoing, and customers are growing extremely frustrated with the extended downtime. The company has acknowledged the issue on Twitter, and now SVP of communications products Jeff Bonforte has issued an apology at Yahoo's official blog. The outage stems from a problem in one of Yahoo's mail data centers, Bonforte says, though he doesn't offer any other details on what went wrong. "The issue has been harder to fix than we originally expected," he concedes. "We have dozens of people working around the clock to bring it to a resolution." Yahoo now estimates that it will restore inbox access for all affected users by 3PM PT (6PM ET) today.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2079356/yahoo-mail-slowly-recovers-from-epic-outage-but-some-problems-linger-on.html
The great Yahoo Mail outage entered its third day on Thursday after hardware issues in one of Yahoo's data centers knocked out mail service for many users on Monday night. The Mail problems are ironed out for most people, but anyone who accesses their email with a third-party desktop or mobile app may still have issues.
In an update sent out late Wednesday, Yahoo said it has restored POP mail access for all affected users that access their mail using a third-party client. The company was still working on restoring IMAP service, which (like POP) allows you to retrieve mail with a third-party program. As of 11:00 a.m. ET, the company has not yet said whether IMAP was completely restored.
For anyone who uses IMAP to get at their Yahoo Mail, the company is advising users to access their mail through the Yahoo Mail app for Android or iOS, or on the web.
Yahoo Mail posted this on Facebook Tuesday morning:
"As we posted last week, Yahoo takes security very seriously and is working to protect your inbox. We're shutting down non-SSL access to Yahoo Mail via POP and SMTP starting today.
To prepare for this change, or if you're having network connection issues, we encourage you to check your device's settings and enable SSL connections so you can continue to access Yahoo Mail: http://yhoo.it/1izMz5F"
- Adopted by Madonna - 05-17-2014 06:48 PM
Your emaill will work when the National Security Administration finishes downloading everyone's mail folders so the NSA can see if you're an enemy of the Obama dictatorship.
- Don - 05-17-2014 07:04 PM
It is down for POP and Yahoo online still!
- dodgediesel78 - 05-17-2014 07:07 PM
I had the same problem. You have to change your settings. I just found this info from Yahoo and it worked for me. Im using outlook 2010, you can follow this link for that version
http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?locale=en_US&y=PROD_YSB_BZMAIL&page=content&id=SLN17489
For other versions of outlook follow the instructions on this page and select your appropriate program
http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?page=content&y=PROD_YSB_BZMAIL&locale=en_US&id=SLN17526&actp=lorax
- Darcy Fitz - 05-17-2014 07:16 PM
Our Mail engineering team is aware of this issue, and they have made resolving it a high priority! I would like to reassure you that we will our best to have a resolution in place as soon as possible. Unfortunately, at this time we are unable to offer you an estimate as to when this issue will be resolved.
For more on this, please see our official updates on Yahoo Help:
http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?page=content&y=PROD_MAIL_ML&locale=en_US&id=SLN22473
We appreciate your patience and we’re very thankful for your reporting this to us. Your input notifies us of current issues our customers are experiencing along with helping us to identify areas for product and service improvements. Thank you!