Yahoo Mail is so frustrating

[lawren2 Malibu Beach Barbie & A Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close lawren2]

I followed Steve Nelson's advice and very rigourously use one browser for personal and one for work. I do not like the new version. My favorite feature is "we'll let you search for an e-mail but once you find it we won't let you open it". That happens regularly.

Today I have the "we'll show you that you have an attachment but no matter what kind it is (xls,doc,pdf) we will not let you open it" feature. So hand write all your work stuff until we change our minds so you can enter the data on that refreshed s/s you got yesterday.

E-mail your clients, tell them you have their info but you can't send it to them because you can't open it to make their copy.

[catwgirl Contributor - Bronze Find all posts View Profile Close catwgirl]

I'm not having any problems with my yahoo mail, but I don't think I ever changed over to the "new mail."

[T. R. Oglodyte Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close T. R. Oglodyte]

I followed Steve Nelson's advice and very rigourously use one browser for personal and one for work.

I don't have separate browsers - I have separate e-mail accounts.

I use my yahoo account as my general public account. I have a comcast which is my trusted personal account. I have two hotmail accounts that I maintain for specific purposes. I also have a gmail account that I've used sparingly, and given the degree to which Google wants to pry into my life I'll probably never do much with it.

I access the Yahoo account through Firefox as that is the account that is most likely to receive to receive hazardous messages. The other personal accounts I open using Windows Live Mail.

My business e-mail accounts I open in Outlook.

Sounds complicated, but the whole process has worded out very well for me.

[lawren2 Malibu Beach Barbie & A Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close lawren2]

I don't have separate browsers - I have separate e-mail accounts.

I use my yahoo account as my general public account. I have a comcast which is my trusted personal account. I have two hotmail accounts that I maintain for specific purposes. I also have a gmail account that I've used sparingly, and given the degree to which Google wants to pry into my life I'll probably never do much with it.

I access the Yahoo account through Firefox as that is the account that is most likely to receive to receive hazardous messages. The other personal accounts I open using Windows Live Mail.

My business e-mail accounts I open in Outlook.

Sounds complicated, but the whole process has worded out very well for me.

I have no choice both my personal and business e-mails are yahoo based. To be honest after the last run in making SURE I opened personal only on Firefox and Business only on Internet Explosion things have been running pretty well.

I do not need this not being able to open attachments on a Thursday or Friday. I just had a name change on a check-in for tonight and it did get done but I couldn't send a refreshed confirm. Thank goodness it's a large and long term client. Imagine telling someone you had done no business with or very little business with, it's done, the resort is aware as they've been called but I can't send you a confirmation so dummy up the one you have.

This morning, to another big client but with a shorter lifespan with us, it was a hey I placed those 6 guests but.....

And if I don't input sales data immediately I forget to do it and then accounting gets pissed at me.

[chriskre Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close chriskre]

I feel your pain Lawren.
I hate the new Yahoo mail too.
Tons of glitches and forget opening it at work.
Slow as molasses.

Some days I delete and delete and nothing happens.
Other days I try to move things to a folder and the folder box opens and shuts before I get a chance to do anything. Very frustrating.

I really hate it but am too lazy to move everything to another account.
Unfortunately I have 4 yahoo accounts and 3 are business related.

[basham Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close basham]

Google mail now can pick up mail in other mail accounts.

As can Yahoo, but you may want to give Google another look.

[lawren2 Malibu Beach Barbie & A Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close lawren2]

Google mail now can pick up mail in other mail accounts.

As can Yahoo, but you may want to give Google another look.

Google wants to do too much with my information. I trust them not at all.

[lawren2 Malibu Beach Barbie & A Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close lawren2]

I feel your pain Lawren.
I hate the new Yahoo mail too.
Tons of glitches and forget opening it at work.
Slow as molasses.

Some days I delete and delete and nothing happens.
Other days I try to move things to a folder and the folder box opens and shuts before I get a chance to do anything. Very frustrating.

I really hate it but am too lazy to move everything to another account.
Unfortunately I have 4 yahoo accounts and 3 are business related.

How does one move an e-mail account they've had for ~15 years?

The business one I don't have any choice about. Today was ugly. I can usually put up with the glitches but not on Thursday and Fridays. Their "help" is a joke. Hopefully this will be cleaned up by Monday or I will be ripping out my hair.

[chriskre Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close chriskre]

How does one move an e-mail account they've had for ~15 years?

The business one I don't have any choice about. Today was ugly. I can usually put up with the glitches but not on Thursday and Fridays. Their "help" is a joke. Hopefully this will be cleaned up by Monday or I will be ripping out my hair.

I'm not sure but the thought of moving one email at a time gives me nightmares. I did try it with a hotmail account but I gave up after about 1000 emails.

[basham Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close basham]

Next suggestion:

Get a domain name and forward existing email accounts to whatever you want, sales@, info@ , lauren@..

The cost is minimal , probably $15/yr to control your own email addresses.

[T. R. Oglodyte Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close T. R. Oglodyte]

I have no choice both my personal and business e-mails are yahoo based. To be honest after the last run in making SURE I opened personal only on Firefox and Business only on Internet Explosion things have been running pretty well.

I'm pretty sure that you can set up either Outlook or Windows Live to access a Yahoo mail serves. Then you can manage the whole account without using a browser interface. Windows Live keeps a separate set of folders for each account, so when I have Windows Live Mail open, I see my personal account, each of my two hotmail accounts, my gmail account, and my student account at a local university where I occasionally take classes. Each account has it own set of folders, shown in a folder tree in the left pane. That's all my personal e-mail, with the exception of the Yahoo account which I only access via browser for security reasons.

Then Outlook is business only.

The

[lawren2 Malibu Beach Barbie & A Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close lawren2]

I fixed it!

Suggested cures range from Update Adobe Flash Player and Java script

and that did the trick. Oh I'm so much happier now. That was making nuts.

[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

I have had very little trouble with yahoo mail. I have about 7 other mail accounts and they all leave a lot to be desired. Some of them were pretty good until they "upgraded". I have the classic yahoo and really don't want the new version.