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Yahoo Explains Why It Recently Disable Automatic Forwarding On Yahoo Mail; Reinstates the Feature (businessinsider.com)
Earlier this month, Yahoo disabled the auto-forwarding feature from its Yahoo Mail email service, leaving people with little choice but to use Yahoo Mail client to check the emails their received on their Yahoo account. The company has now acknowledged the issue, explaining why it all happened, and most importantly, switched email forwarding feature on again. From a BusinessInsider report: "Why the pause? Over the past year, Yahoo Mail has been upgrading its platform. This has allowed us to bring a better search experience to Yahoo Mail, add multiple account support, and improve performance as we quickly scale this new system globally. The feature was temporarily disabled as part of this process," Michael Albers, VP of Yahoo Mail product management, wrote in a blog post. To turn on mail forwarding, go to Settings -- Account in Yahoo Mail and enter your forwarding address. After confirming that you, in fact, control that other address, automatic forwarding should be turned on.
It's a shame they make so many poor decisions.
If it was simply turned off as part of the upgrade process, it would have been turned back on again silently, without the user having to take action. The fact we're told we have to reenable it shows quite clearly that Yahoo disabled it to prevent folks jumping ship, and has only begrudgingly turned it back on to try and squash the bad publicity that its move generated. It's clearly hoping that most users who would otherwise have used the feature won't realize it has been turned back on.
What the hell does he mean by that?
And also, bulllllllsssshhhhiiiiitttttt
She's just trying to save the sinking ship and can't imagine anyone else is as smart as her and could catch on.
Upgrading your platform requires disabling mail-forwarding at a time people flock to every mail provider that's not yahoo? Fuck you. Fuck you for doing it, fuck you for trying to explain it away, fuck you for still being around. Also: Fuck you.
Anyone still using Yahoo needs to jump ship as Yahoo will never be a great company, especially if Verizon purchases it.
We wanted to make sure it was as hard as possible for people to leave until our deal with Verizon went through, as more users equals more money for the deal. It was especially important once people became aware of our massive data breach. But now we need the good PR because Verizon is having second thoughts about the proposed deal and wants to renegotiate terms.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
Now Yahoo just needs to explain what system or software or mental competence they're in the middle of upgrading that causes them not to tell people what's about to happen before it happens.
Sure hope Competence 11.0 is finally the one that ignites self-perception.
All of you unhappy Yahoo email users should cancel your accounts and ask for a full refund.
"Why the pause? Over the past year, Yahoo Mail has been upgrading its platform. This has allowed us to bring a better search experience for the NSA to Yahoo Mail, add multiple account support, and improve performance as we quickly scale this new system globally. .." :P
The NSA needed some improvements for their special search tools.
If this was a required move as part of whatever upgrade they were doing, they would have notified people beforehand to expect it.
The most charitable explanation is that their management is incompetent in failing to provide that heads up.
The most likely explanation was that they quietly tried to close the door on people trying to jump ship, and now they're backpedalling because of the uproar.
I haven't touched Yahoo for many years now, and it seems like they've made it their mission to justify my departure as much as possible.
Real reason Yahoo! disabled email forwarding, all the emails and logins they're leaking to the feds without a warrant they want people to login with a landline cable/dsl connection so they can have a geolocation for the account to go along with all your emails to the feds.
Just e-mailed my neighbour to tell her that she might want to finally switch NOW before they try this again.
The excuse... Well, if you're buying it, I have a bridge to sell you...
For $deity's sake msmash, read the shit at least once before you submit, will you? Maybe at least the title?!?!
The Automatic Forwarding feature was actually working. Your email was just re-routed to a 3-letter agency for safe-keeping.
First gain access to your Yahoo accounts,if you can !!
I have been trying to access some very old Yahoo accounts for over ten years,the accounts are still active,I just cannot access any of them,I know I am using the correct credential because I wrote them down and still have the papers,but no matter what I try to access any of them I just get sent in a loop,sending new passwords to other email accounts that were closed down by providers years ago,or wanting to send texts to phone Sims that I have not had for 8+ years !!!
Yahoo's post "customer support" is as big a joke as the rest of their services,I have now sent them 30+ emails explaining the situation to them and have never even received an auto reply mail,let alone any help.
All I want to do is access about 12 old emails and about 25 old photos of my daughter when she was young,due to hard drive death and closure of cloud storage accounts by providers,which is why now I only use cloud storage from the big firms like Amazon and Google for important stuff I might want/need in 5 years time...
I closed that tab and didn't read the article....screw em.....
Ah... they want to make it even easier for them to snoop through your shit.
I've had a yahoo email account for a very long time. I wanted to try it out soon after they introduced the service. After setting up my account, I immediately began receiving spam, and that was without ever sending an email from that account, or telling anyone about the address. Once every year or two, I go back and check on it, just to see if Yahoo has gotten better at getting rid of spam. They haven't. My inbox there is still overflowing with brand new spam messages, despite never having used the service.
By contrast, my GMail inbox is nearly always spam-free. I receive dozens per day, but GMail accurately filters out all of them, rarely making a mistake either way.
I have no desire to forward my Yahoo email to any other place.