Yahoo Mail Sucks

I have a friend that uses Yahoo! too. He has the same problem. I'll check back later to see if anybody has a fix. Thanks for the post.

It's not just Yahoo! Mail that does that. Have your friend try enclosing in angle braces <>. This should work as well. Eudora splits long urls as well, unless the are surrounded by angle braces.

it all depends on what format you send your email in... your buddy seems to be sending emails in text format ....

i have yahoo mail along with a lot of my friends and family... under mail options your buddy should have

"Compose messages as color and graphics" instead of

"Compose messages as plain text"

I have never had a problem with yahoo mail and think it is one of best web email out there...

I hope this solves the problem

This doesn't solve his issue because he is using Outlook to compose his Yahoo! messages and not the Yahoo Mail Web interface.

Also, even if he did use the Yahoo Web interface, my buddy says:

Not only is that just a web option, but the Yahoo interface says it's for IE 5.5+ exclusively. No thanks!! "

Well, you CAN use Mozilla, but you get text only. No html formatting.

On a slightly different note though, they've recently made some other changes. I used to use Yahoo! for POP mail, but decided a while back that it was easier to use the web based interface. I used to get ticked off that I had to enter my password in the login screen all the time. That was bad enough, but now, about every 3rd time I go to Yahoo Mail, I have to enter my user name, password, AND some stupid confirmation thinger. Doesn't matter which browser you use, or whether cookies are enabled, etc.

They are driving me nuts! I am a long time Yahoo Mail user, but I am about to make the jump to Gmail here real soon!

:P

u r all babies

Who is the genius putting ugly crass pictures on yahoo mail sign on page?

I know I'm late...Yahoo mail totally sucks.

Try using www.snurl.com to shorten links. They have a little program you can add to your "Links" toolbar that eliminates the cutting ans pasting part. It opens a pop-up, and there's a button you click that automatically copies the short URL to your clipboard and closes the window.

I used to have SBC Yahoo! (they suck too, btw, but that's a different story) as my ISP. I requested technical help via email. The auto-response I received was caught by the Yahoo! spam filter. (Duh?) The auto response advised me to be sure to add "xxxxxx@yahoo.com" to my address book so that my answer from tech support would not be trapped in the spam filter.

That's just wrong on so many levels....

Yahoo mail what f#*king wizz kid came up wit dis half ass concoksion is a peebrian!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Whenever you get spam in a yahoo mail account and try to forward it to "abuse @ yahoo" or "spam @ uce.gov" you get that thing where you have to interpret those incredibly unreadable #s and letters and type them in to "prevent spam." In the past month I've sent back at least 500 spam bullsh*t messages all coming from yahoo e-mail addresses! How come the SPAMMERS are able to send out hundreds of thousands of crap messages when I can't even complain to the alleged "authority" without having my nuts toasted?

It's take over 1 hour to for e-mail to arrive, try sending an email to yourself especially during day hours, it takes over 1 hr, Yahoo! sucks.

holy **ck

okay okay
first of all, yahoo gives you guys a free email service and then you guys spit on thier faces in return....i am pretty sure Yahoo! doesnt want users like you shitting around thier email service..go get gmail which sucks even more (theres a reason why google still didnt make it public)...at least i get all my email in my inbox unlike gmail..

hotmail just plain sucks..

Hi, I am a yahoo user.
Recently yahoo went through the motions of 'enhancing' many of the yahoo services. They used a lot of potential ad-space to advertise these upcoming 'enhancements'. Well, the enhancements are here.
Now you will love these enhancements if you meet the following criteria. Keep in mind yahoo sent surveys out to find out what people want to see the most. Apparently the vast majority of yahoo users wanted advertisements for free screen savers, slower page loads, unstable connections, slow email, more advertisements for free screensavers, login problems, advertisements for yahoo (yes yahoo puts ads for yahoo on yahoo's site.. its a good enhancement apparently).. and in general just more advertisements.
Now, I dont really have a hard time believing that people are stupid enough to suggest more ads on yahoo. If I would have filled out the survey I probably would have suggested less ads though, but that's just me. I cant fight the majority of the ad-loving public.

Yahoo mail, IE (html) paste into word locks up! This used to work fine. Other web sites work fine. It started right after yahoo upgraded mail interface.

I am experiencing consistant problems with Yahoo! mail when pasting into word. More particularly html code into word. XP SP2 with Office 2003 Sp2, CPU processed up to 90% utilization. This function was working for a long time, now word freezes.

Through research I found many people have the same issue. We can perform a work around with Paste Special, then select rtf format. When I perform a past into WordPAD, it performs flawlessly. The problem is that word tries to access the source of the html code (Yahoo mail) as part of the paste function.

I have reloaded Word, repaired, disabled firewall, removed firewall, reinstalled, removed and checked for patches, turned off smart paste in word, regenerated normal.dot, repaired word, changed the view to normal/webview. Reinstalled again, removed all registry references to word, checked for viruses, spam, malware, Adaware, Sybot, Defender, Norton virus scan, Updated Adobe( ??) etc...

All of these actions did not change this problem of internet explorer paste to word crashes. Research tells me this is a long standing issue.

I put in id and right password and can not sign in. (why can I can,t sign) what is up with yahoo .(Please let me know why) You can get me at msn timlb1xp@hotmail.com PS yahoo has let me downnnnnnnnnnnnn.tim le blanc

I have also tried to copy something from Yahoo! mail and paste it into word and it shuts down word, locks it up and you lose your documents. Basically word states that the program is not responding. This can get very annoying! Is there a fix out there?

Today is Sunday March 11th. I can't access my yahoo mail account, when I sign in it takes me to the yahoo main page! I can access my yahoo mail on my cellphone, but it doesn't have html. I read my mail and one has html code. I guess I have to live with the fact it's free and why should I complain..but is it really free if you have to deal with their ads and offers of phoney yahoo personals? I've seen their fake models in pics with three other people...what a player! I guess that's the phoney message.
Yahoo sucks period....

You can work around this problem by first pasting the text into a new message. Then copy and paste it to word from there.

I understood what you sent ,but the others I don't know what to click on to read my mail. Plz Help.

yahoomail is really slow .we are not able to check our mail it takes minutes to open

I've used both Yahoo! and Gmail. But i've converted to BigString. Check it out.

Here's some info if your interested:
BigString (http://www.bigstring.com), the new free webmail program, offers revolutionary features. When you send mail from your BigString account, you are protected. BigString is like an automatic shredder for your email. You can self-destruct or change an email that's already been sent or read. Don't leave your messages sitting in peoples' inbox forever.

Yahoo sucks big time!! They seem only to be interested in making big profits from advertisers and screw the users. Either the mail doesn't work or finance or whatever!! The beauty part is that they don't list contact us information either soits basically tough shit user!!

Anyone using Yahoo! mail watch out! They are now scanning every e-mail and inserting scripts to drive traffic to themeselves. I noticed this after their upgrade when I went to my Yahoo mail and checked the source code of my e-mails. They are apparently taking the big-brother approach and they haven't even told their customers their e-mails are being scanned and literally changed.

1. I send messages out, they are not delivered.
2. The spam filter is insane. When I email myself it gets sent to the spam folder. My friends' emails are sent to the spam folder. But Nigerian scammers, hey, they get the red carpet treatment to my inbox.
3. Geocities is unreliable. You edit your webpage and it takes HOURS for the changes to appear. Until you figure this out, you bank your head on the console wondering what is wrong with your HTML.

Yahoo sucks..period!!!

The other day I asked one of the online help reps WHY so much spam gets through with them, but yet with Hotmail or GMail I barey get any spam?!?!? The rep then broke into his "scripted" reply of "...you can create filters, blah, blah, blah".

When I told him I shouldn't have to create a filter every time some piece of spam gets through. Not to mention the fact you're only allowed 15 filters!!!!

They suck...

yahoo still sucks monkey balls.....I hate it..and sticking with gmail!!! fuck you yahooo!! go to hell and die...

Yahoo sucks - ive used the filters and they are useless. Why dont you all try to get removed from a list and watch what happens _ you get 4 times the spam you started with - stick with gmail - if you wanna save yourself a headache

Yahoo Mail sucks donkey dick.

The reading pane is tiny 'cuz they use up all that real estate with undiluted crap.

Of course, if you want a larger one, you have to pay them.

Die, Yahoo, die!

I used to love Yahoo! e-mail, but as time progresses, the more I begin to hate it for the following reasons:

1.) It would appear that the designers or developers responsible for it's management constantly fall asleep at the wheel. How many times have you logged (or tried to log) into Yahoo e-mail only to discover that you either cannot log into it or that you can hardly understand what is before you on your monitor due to some elementary mistake with the CSS?

2.) When I log into my e-mail account, I want nothing to do with the news, some bullshit "Connection Suggestions", weather, or ads. All I want is to see my e-mail. That's it. Why is this so hard to understand? I mean, am I alone in this desire?

3.) The entire page is constructed with little-to-no design / development skill. I could have had my 13 year-old brother make a better layout that would have downloaded faster.

4.) There have been multiple times where I had to send myself an e-mail with an attachment (because I had no storage media on hand) in order to keep a copy of whatever I was working on at the time. In doing this, you would expect that e-mail to be received in a matter of mere nanoseconds, right? Wrong. I have had times where it took an entire day and the attachment was nothing larger than a single page of Word document.

These above are my biggest complaints. I'm not entirely sure what Yahoo is experiencing internally, but from what I understand, there have been some shifting governance concerns that have been getting addressed. Maybe this is why their e-mail stinks right now?

Agreed. Peep this amusing, similar article:

http://variableghz.com/2009/01/why-yahoo-mail-still-sucks/

Yahoo mail continues to suck.

They are relentless in their drive to suck.

Their only goal in life is to suck longer and harder than anyone else on the planet.

Suck, yahoo, suck!

Each and every time I send an E-mail a page opens with a jumbled letters and numbers which wants the user to type them in the box as it appears. It irritates to the core when it is required to do every single time.