Is there any mail outage? Send/receive intermittent for my yahoo account?

[Y]

Send and receive is intermittent. Seems to be dropping some mail. Both in and outbound.

Also, started getting this error. Same behavior on different computers from different networks, but I can access a different yahoo account and send/receive no problem. Just my primary account is affected.

Yahoo Mail
We're sorry, but it looks like your external account xxxxxxxx@yahoo is busy. Please try again in a while.
I did some analysis of the mail headers for several messages that finally showed up. It looks like the delay was at yahoo. On this test message google passed it to yahoo immediately after it was sent but it was 51 minutes before yahoo passed it on to my inbox. I was seeing delays of 1 to 4 hours. Seems to be cleared up now. The annoying thing is I'm sure yahoo knows this but tells you to check your browser. Lame.

Received: from 127.0.0.1 (EHLO mail-ee0-f51.google.com) (74.125.83.51)
by mta1598.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with SMTPS; Thu, 06 Feb 2014 16:02:46 +0000

X-Apparently-To: xxxxxxxxx@yahoo.com via 98.139.244.153; Thu, 06 Feb 2014 16:53:19 +0000

[Dave R]

I am having this same problem. Yesterday several messages were forwarded to me by another source but I never got the original messages that I was included on. Is yahoo mail experience difficulty or is something wrong with my account?

[M]

Somethings up with Yahoo, and they aren't telling us what it is.

That's bad customer 'care'. There is no way to contact them, and even if you manage to find out where they are hiding (Twitter, according to them "it's fixed"), you wont get any straight answers from them anyways. I don't like this one bit, especially since they were hacked last week (found an article on the Washington Post), but mums the word on that too.

[scottymarie1]

Hi, Try Clearing History, Cookies and Cache, also Update the Internet Browser you are using at the moment or use a Different Internet Browser.

Very Basic way to read your Emails http://m.yahoo.com/p/mail

To Contact Yahoo by Email, this can be done by clicking on HELP at the Bottom Right Hand side of the Yahoo Home Page under Horoscopes.

Click on whatever Subject is best for you for more information, you can also Click on the Arrows for more options, or Type your Problem in the Search Help box.

For more Help and advice you can also Go to the Right hand side of page and click on Contact Customer Care.

Click on Select a Product, then select a Category or Version, page will reload for you to click on Sub Category.

Make sure you fill in Brief Details of what has Happened, click Enter.

Depending on the Category you select and the Sub Category you also select you may see at the Bottom of the Page for more help Click on EMAIL A SUPPORT AGENT. You may have to click on different ones and try variations.

Or else there will be information there on the page to help with your problem.

There will then be a Form to fill in. Fill in the form with as much information as you can remember about your security details and your yahoo account etc.

Yahoo will then contact you at a Different Email Address that you need to give them. This email address CANNOT be a yahoo email one.

You need to give them a different Email Address, it could be one that you already have or you will need to create a new one, Google, Hotmail, etc. You do this by clicking on Email and then click on Register and follow the instructions.

They only need this Different Email Address to give you instructions regarding your yahoo account.

When Yahoo send you an email, make sure you check the Trash and Spam folders as well as the Inbox in case it went in there instead.

You will be asked to create a New Password, Best a hard to Guess One for anyone trying to access your Yahoo Account.

I Would Also Strongly advise that you register an alternative email address and your Mobile Number/Cell Phone Number with Yahoo, that is done through Account Settings. (I Think).

That way if your account is ever hacked or similar, a message should come up and they can send a code to your phone or other email address for you to then unlock your Yahoo Email Account.


Good Luck
Claire