why is my email down and how long?

[Richard]

each time I try going to email, they tell me it is out temporary and will be for some time, why and how long before I can inter my inbox and email and send out mail?

[Paul]

Ymail has been down since last night...nice of Yahoo to put something on their site to tell us what is going on and progress

[Kathy]

Not everyone's mail account is down, just thousands and thousands of us. A fiasco, no?

[Brandi]

I saw Yahoo tweeted and Face booked they would try to have it up and running at 1:30 PST. I'm on EST, which would be 4:30, and still not available.

[echinopsis .]

For quite a few users mail has been down for many hours - 1 hour ago a message was posted on the official Yahoo Twitter blog: "We know some of our users are unable to use Yahoo Mail. We're on it & trying to restore access in a few hours. Sorry for the inconvenience."
User comments after the message was posted weren't exactly favourable...:-(
https://twitter.com/yahoomail/status/410505606198329344

Note: one of my contacts also had this problem - he temporarily disabled Java scripting and could get into his mail account that way. And once he was in, he enabled Java scripting again - maybe this will help others too...