# Problems with Yahoo Mail **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 27, 2011, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problems-with-yahoo-mail/594275 "2011-08-27T07:55:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2011, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problems-with-yahoo-mail/594275/1 "2011-08-27T07:55:13Z")
I have a few Yahoo mail accounts, including one I still read. It has forced me to switch to New Yahoo Mail; there was no option to retain Classic Yahoo. (Curiously, a _different_ old Yahoo Mail account asks me to switch to New Mail but with a different page, that _does_ have, in fine print, an option to retain Classic.) Clicking on Yahoo Help leads to an implication that reverting to Classic is not an option. Importing my Yahoo messages to a Gmail account would work for me. But when I try this from Gmail I get _“Could not validate this combination of email address and password.”_ Clicking Help tells me this may be temporary and to try again. I do try again, but with the same results. Googling tells me that Yahoo is particularly unfriendly about supporting Export/Pop, but I would have thought that Gmail might emulate a human to fool Yahoo into thinking it’s just me reading my mail. 🙂 (I think I thought wrong.) So my questions are: 1. Why doesn’t Gmail Importing from Yahoo work? 2. Is there, after all, a way to revert a Yahoo mail account to Classic? ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2011, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problems-with-yahoo-mail/594275/2 "2011-08-27T09:03:56Z")
Googled and found some solutions: 1.) Adjust your screen resolution so that it’s too low to support the new Yahoo! Mail. Go to your mailbox and you’ll receive a message that your screen resolution is too low to properly view the new Yahoo! Mail in. It’ll ask if you’d like to switch back to classic mode: You’ll now have the opportunity to set it as your new default - Don’t select to view it in classic mode “one time only.” Close the window and readjust your screen resolution to whatever you had it at before. You’ll keep getting annoying update prompts for a while but ignore them and they should eventually go away. 2.) When you want to access your mail do so by using [this link](http://us.mc598.mail.yahoo.com/mc/launch). Solution #2 is easier I suppose but solution #1 is more or less permanent. Yahoo! seems to want people to use its new Mail so it’s disabled any official way of reverting. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2011, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problems-with-yahoo-mail/594275/3 "2011-08-27T11:04:55Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > Googled and found some solutions: > > 1.) Adjust your screen resolution so that it’s too low to support the new Yahoo! Mail. … > > 2.) When you want to access your mail do so by using [this link](http://us.mc598.mail.yahoo.com/mc/launch). Thank you! I tried #2 and it works. #1 looks like fun, but will have to wait till I’m in a not-busy experimental mood. … And I do wish I had better Googling skill. ☹ The Yahoo account only has unimportant newsletters anyway; I’ve long since migrated mostly to Gmail which is much MUCH better. (And don’t get me started about the many obnoxiousisms Yahoo Mail has presented in the past.) ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2011, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problems-with-yahoo-mail/594275/4 "2011-08-27T13:24:06Z")
Thank you for #2! The new look was really annoying. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2011, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problems-with-yahoo-mail/594275/5 "2011-08-27T13:35:02Z")
[This solution](http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=At9yzxn6Eo59EWJpxt9gV.v79xd.;_ylv=3?qid=20110823143124AACisDV) looks good too, but I haven’t tried it yet since #2 worked: > [@](#): > > To go back to YAHOO! MAIL CLASSIC… > > Turn off Javascript - you’ll then be asked if you want to return to Mail Classic, click “yes”. > > If you don’t know how to turn off Javascript… > > For SAFARI: Open SETTINGS\>click PREFERENCES\>\>click SECURITY\>\>Uncheck ENABLE JAVA and ENABLE JAVASCRIPT > > IMPORTANT:Remember to RE-ENABLE JAVA and JAVASCRIPTING back ON when you are back in Mail Classic because without it some mail functions won’t work. > > For IE: Open TOOLS \> INTERNET OPTIONS \>\> SECURITY. In security click “CUSTOM LEVEL” -\> disable active scripting in the scripting section. > > IMPORTANT:Remember to turn JAVASCRIPTING back ON when you are back in Mail Classic because without it some mail functions won’t work. > > For FIREFOX: Open TOOLS -\> OPTIONS -\> CONTENT, click on “DISABLE JAVASCRIPT”. Now hit F5 to refresh the page while you are in Yahoo! email in order to switch back… In the options, click (PERMANENT) to switch back to YAHOO! Classic. DO NOT click the “ONE TIME ONLY” option. > > IMPORTANT: Turn JAVASCRIPT back ON once you have your “CLASSIC” account back.