Anyone else use Yahoo email?
Anyone else use Yahoo email?
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forever_driving

Original Poster:

1,869 posts

279 months

Thursday 24th March 2005
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The last two mornings, I've been unable to access my account, the page just doesn't load... however, once I arrive at work, I can log in perfectly and read all my emails.

So, I'm wonder, is this a problem with my home computer? Or is Yahoo mail broken for everyone in the morning?

egoboss

838 posts

259 months

Thursday 24th March 2005
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forever_driving said:
The last two mornings, I've been unable to access my account, the page just doesn't load... however, once I arrive at work, I can log in perfectly and read all my emails.

So, I'm wonder, is this a problem with my home computer? Or is Yahoo mail broken for everyone in the morning?


it's been fine for me, as usual - i use it all day for private email and my business email hosting.

crazydave

2,253 posts

261 months

Thursday 24th March 2005
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It's been ok working for me.

crazydave

2,253 posts

261 months

Thursday 24th March 2005
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Try clearing out your temp internet files and cookies.

KITT

5,345 posts

270 months

Thursday 24th March 2005
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The only problem I've been having with Yahoo mail is on my laptop it logs me out after 24 hours. Not the end of the world, but a tad annoying.

Raify

6,556 posts

277 months

Thursday 24th March 2005
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working fine for me, from a variety of pc's

Make sure your home pc is accepting cookies from yahoo.

And update your browser, to make sure nothing is broken (script errors etc)

Podie

46,649 posts

304 months

Thursday 24th March 2005
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Watch Norton and McAfee… their privacy tools and anti-cookie things don't like Yahoo...

forever_driving

Original Poster:

1,869 posts

279 months

Thursday 24th March 2005
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OK, seems it must be a problem my end, cheers PH

birdbrain

1,564 posts

268 months

Thursday 24th March 2005
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I use yahoo email and haven't had any problems like that recently though something similar happened a few months ago. What I am getting now, however, is a lot of spam which never used to happen.

The page loading problem went away after a couple of days I found.

forever_driving

Original Poster:

1,869 posts

279 months

Thursday 24th March 2005
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Just as a bizarre conclusion to this, I have found a way to access my email. I can't use the direct link on Yahoo's front page, but if I click on 'Addresses' I get access to my address book, then I can click on 'Mail' in my address book. However, it still won't allow me to see my inbox, unless I try to access my inbox from my 'sent mail' page.

The internet is truely a strange beast.

Lois

14,706 posts

281 months

Thursday 24th March 2005
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I've had a similar thing from time to time. Cant get in but have done through yahoo main page. Odd!

stooz

3,005 posts

313 months

Thursday 24th March 2005
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recently, started showing inbox, which I know to be out of date, I can catrl-f5 three times before I see whats new.