Yahoo has an old e-mail address for me. Means it’s hard to log in. So I have spent an hour trying to delete or change to my new address - no success. Yahoo seems beyond my limited skills (and patience)
Any suggestions? (I have exhausted my vocabulary of foul names to call it.)
Any help is muchly appreciated.
CNC
Any suggestions? (I have exhausted my vocabulary of foul names to call it.)
The webcomic Grrl Power could help with that, as the MC swears quite creatively. http://grrlpowercomic.com/
(Wait, was that not what you meant?)
I trust you have tried things like this:
I got this a several others by googling “change email address at yahoo”
Another option was just create a new email account at Yahoo. If you have email stored at yahoo under your old email, maybe you could forward that to the new address.
For the record, I gave up on Yahoo over 20 years ago - so I really don’t know the current system.
(I probably won’t be able to answer the question, but maybe I can help get it clarified.)
Which, if any, of your old and new addresses are @yahoo.com? Or perhaps are AT&T-based addresses for which email is handled by Yahoo?
One way I might (mis)understand your situation is that this is your identification to Yahoo, but not necessarily to their email. They do allow having an account based on a non-Yahoo address.
Which, if any, of your old and new addresses are @yahoo.com? Or perhaps are AT&T-based addresses for which email is handled by Yahoo?
I had an address at Cox. When we moved, cox cut off my email, but Yahoo still thinks that’s my address fro such things as “Forgot my password” etc. So I have to get a code through my telephone to log into my mail.
Is a PITA.
TIA.
CNC
Aghhh… I’ve ben fighting Yahoo for a few years now, maybe since AT&T dumped their emails on them… We had DSL, and a user@pacbell.net or user@sbcglobal.net account for both of us… Worked fine for years, even when it would mess up either on iPhone, laptop or desktop accounts in Entourage, Outlook or Mail, I could easily delete the account on the client, rebuild it, it would pop up… No more…
Outlook, Mail fail to connect, the only access I have is via Yahoo, and even there, the password management is a round-robin of frustration… Back and forth between Yahoo & AT&T… I think I have it for now, afraid to look at DW’s account…
We managed over time to contact all the various vendors, friends, get them to change to our new comcast.net account… Still have to get my dentist updated…
Frustrating…
Now you begin to understand why I use my own domain name/e-mail address for stuff I want/need to get. It will forward everything to my current Internal access provider regardless of who it is this time.
Aghhh… I’ve ben fighting Yahoo for a few years now, maybe since AT&T dumped their emails on them… We had DSL, and a user@pacbell.net or user@sbcglobal.net account for both of us…
Outlook, Mail fail to connect, the only access I have is via Yahoo, and even there, the password management is a round-robin of frustration… Back and forth between Yahoo & AT&T… I think I have it for now, afraid to look at DW’s account…
I too have an old phone company email for which AT&T handles the password authentication and Yahoo handles the actual email. Lately I’ve had a few occasions when I could not log in and had to resort to phone authentication to enter a new email password. The last time I entered the SAME email password for the new one as I had used for the old one. It accepted it! In theory I should not be able to reuse a password, at least not right away.
Originally I used a (poor) email program running locally. That gave me a backup. Later I set up Outlook, and occasionally opened it and let it get current. At some point that stopped working and I haven’t tried to chase it down, so I have NO local copy of my email. That is a bit scary. Meanwhile I have come to like the Yahoo email web interface and make good use of it. I find it quite powerful and easy to use. And my iPhone has no problem with it, until something kicks off the need to reset my password.
All of which doesn’t help the OP one bit. 8-(
so I have NO local copy of my email
The light bulb goes off. I’ve often wondered what the attraction of Thunderbird (for example) was or why anyone used those email addresses given out by phone/ISP companies. Heck, even Kindle has an email address for you (albeit one way).
I’ve always used a web-based email system, now G-mail, but Yahoo mail, Hotmail, Outlook, AOL and others in the distant past (many still active I suppose). I have no local copy of my email and don’t care. Nothing important stays in my email anyway. I make a habit of winnowing my email down to less than 50 messages routinely. My temporary spam folder is bigger than my ‘good’ email folders combined. But if one did want to have a local copy, then I see the ‘problem’ for them. Insights come in strange ways.
glh
I rely on my email history almost every day. I want to make reservations at the same hotel as last year? Search my mail. I want to be sure what I said? My Sent folder has 12,356 (!) messages going back to 2009. Do I need 12,356? Of course not, but I need some of them, but it saves me the trouble of sorting out which is what. Storage is cheap, and I am lazy.
In MS Outlook, I long ago made a Rule and it Copies all new email to my own ‘All New Mail’ folder, other rules automatically delete non-contacts, so that gives me a chance to glance, see if anything needs to be Moved back, and a contact added… Then I truly delete the rest…
So, yes a copy of old emails still available, either in the All New Mail or other folders on my computer… I had a break when MS flipped from Entourage to Outlook, so the old database is still there, and can be searched, but not from the current Outlook…
Gotcha. My oldest personal email is January 2021 and deals with getting a proof of insurance form during my last refinance. Total sent emails: 96. The rest have been manually purged during one of my monthly ‘computer days.’
BUT: my work email (also online in Outlook) goes back to probably 2016 or so as I recently purged those from day one (2001). I’ll purge another couple of years soon and then when I retire, I’ll purge it all. It’s all arbitrary, nothing older than a year or so is still relevant as things change all the time.
But as we all know, things are never purged online. I’m sure my company has or can get, every email that I’ve ever sent/received; it’s all archived somewhere. I just don’t need it cluttering up my life.
glh