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25 Oct 2016, 09:30 AM | #16 | |
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https://help.yahoo.com/kb/account/SLN27791.html My guess is that you have a device you configured to use Yahoo email which has one of those unapproved programs. You can either allow such access or not use that device. Bill |
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25 Oct 2016, 10:18 AM | #17 | |
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25 Oct 2016, 11:27 AM | #18 | |
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26 Oct 2016, 01:24 AM | #19 |
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it only started happening a couple weeks ago, i rarely use the account. no clue why.
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26 Oct 2016, 10:36 AM | #20 |
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I only have a Yahoo account for testing purposes - checking to see what the headers look like sending to my Fastmail account and other similar uses.
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15 Dec 2016, 07:40 AM | #21 |
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Yahoo might as well just close up shop Yahoo Discloses New Breach of 1 Billion User Accounts
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16 Dec 2016, 04:08 AM | #22 | |
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23 Dec 2016, 11:51 PM | #23 |
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I have had a yahoo acct for years don't use it much. Would use it more if it had pop3 feature and automatic forwarding. .
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27 Dec 2016, 08:34 PM | #24 |
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I have had my main email account (Yahoo, formerly Oddpost) since 2002 and have email going back nearly 15 years and I am very concerned about what is going on. I no longer confident with Yahoo handling my highly confidential, personal and private email messages. But I am at a loss at what to do. I don't want to lose either my emails or my @oddpost.com address. There doesn't seems to be an simple way of switching service like you would a bank account.
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28 Dec 2016, 10:59 AM | #25 | |
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Moving emails away from Yahoo
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There is no way to keep your oddpost email address if you discontinue use of Yahoo. But you can move all of your existing emails from the Yahoo server to another service as follow:
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28 Dec 2016, 06:11 PM | #26 | |
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hi Adam1 might I suggest an extern fee software sollution to backup emails?? http://www.mailstore.com/en/mailstor...archiving.aspx its very good..I use it aswell. Even for personal use I would NOT recommend Yahoo (nore AOL) as an email sollution. Its simply rubbish. I came to that conclusion allready some years ago. I am glad now more and more people see that. It's a pity to see such an email service going down the drain. I predict sooner or later Yahoo and AOL will merge into something realy realy terrible....and after that it will just disapear. I might suggest Yandex or mail.ru as a (free) email service....they are very reliable and have tons of features and certainly are no less then Gmail or Outlook. For sure they have less spying!! cheers Dutchy. |
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29 Dec 2016, 10:06 AM | #27 | |
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Besides, I think having more than 180 days / 6 months of personal email hosted online somewhere is too risky. Get all that old email off that Internet server and onto your personal mail store on your local PC, which is also backed up. |
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30 Dec 2016, 02:55 AM | #28 |
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Bill, Dutchy and Rockman, thank you very much for your replies.
These are all great suggestions well worth serious contemplation. The most prudent option may be to use this Mailstore backup service of which you speak and then start anew with an email account on a different service. It'll be a shame to lose my simple email address I've had for nearly 15 years but that'll at least dial back the amount of spam I get, certainly in the short term. I'm currently on a paid Yahoo subscription so I don't grudge paying for a decent email service (as Oddpost was, for a nominal fee). I share your point Rockman about too much historical email being stored online and at the mercy of hacker attacks like what has happened at Yahoo, and since mine goes back to 2002... perhaps I should remove all email over a certain age from online accounts and keep it solely local, I presume Mailstore will have a feature to do this. Just generally be more disciplined with it. By the way, I have been registered with EMD since 2001 and was a "Master of the @" but I'm using a different account now. Of course back then the quest for the best email service was for the most part a three horse race between Fastmail, Runbox and Mailsnare - at least they had Edwin's seal of approval in the form of their own support Forum hosted here at EMD. I understand the latter fell by the wayside some time ago. I'm not sure what Runbox is like (I signed up for a trial account at the time and liked the interface) but I seem to recall a few years back someone on here saying it wasn't as good as it had been. As for Fastmail, I have a guest account that I use for signing up to websites that demand an email address that I don't wish to disclose my primary one. It's been spammed to within an inch of its life but in fairness that may have been through my own negligence. My parents use Fastmail on the one-off payment plan and are very satisfied with it. Thanks again for you help guys. Adam |
30 Dec 2016, 03:18 AM | #29 |
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PS.. I do use Thunderbird already - started using it a few years ago since Yahoo! Mail's interface was so terrible (I believe they have improved it somewhat since) and use IMAP to download the emails to Thunderbird and sync with the web account. It can be a bit clunky, but that may in part be due to the age of my computer. Plus the anti-spam mechanism is faulty - often genuine emails are incorrectly earmarked as spam and no matter how many times you try to correct it, it keeps chucking them back in the Junk folder.
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17 Mar 2017, 01:33 AM | #30 |
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U.S. authorities charge Russian spies, hackers in huge Yahoo hack
Reuters March 15 The United States on Wednesday charged two Russian intelligence agents and two hackers with masterminding the 2014 theft of 500 million Yahoo accounts, the first time the U.S. government has criminally charged Russian spies for cyber offences. The charges came amid a swirl of controversies relating to alleged Kremlin-backed hacking of the 2016 U.S. presidential election and possible links between Russian figures and associates of U.S. President Donald Trump. This has given rise to uncertainty about whether Trump is willing to respond forcefully to any action by Moscow in cyberspace and elsewhere. The 47-count Justice Department indictment included charges of conspiracy, computer fraud and abuse, economic espionage, theft of trade secrets, wire fraud, access device fraud and aggravated identify theft. It painted a picture of the Russian security services working hand-in-hand with cyber criminals, who helped spies further their intelligence goals in exchange for using the same exploits to make money. "The criminal conduct at issue, carried out and otherwise facilitated by officers from an FSB unit that serves as the FBI’s point of contact in Moscow on cyber crime matters, is beyond the pale,” Acting Assistant Attorney General Mary McCord said at a press conference announcing the charges. ... |