# Yahoo Mail **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 10, 2025, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-mail/1022917 "2025-09-10T19:08:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2025, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-mail/1022917/1 "2025-09-10T19:08:54Z")
Nevermind. I’m dumm 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2025, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-mail/1022917/2 "2025-09-10T19:45:07Z")
If you want to rant about Yahoo mail I think this could be a good thread. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2025, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-mail/1022917/3 "2025-09-10T19:54:27Z")
I was very ranty when my watch wouldn’t pair. Now I can’t get my car to pair with my phone. First world problems 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![raspberry\_hunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@raspberry\_hunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raspberry_hunter)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2025, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-mail/1022917/4 "2025-09-10T20:08:12Z")
Well I will take this opportunity to rant! They recently put in storage caps, which I am not pleased about. I fully realize this is an unhinged rant – the storage costs them money, they do give 20G which is pretty generous and at least more than google does - but darn it, I was used to not having a cap on it! ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2025, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-mail/1022917/5 "2025-09-10T20:18:52Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > If you want to rant about Yahoo mail I think this could be a good thread. What about Hotmail, Netzero, and [AOL.com](http://AOL.com)? Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-mail/1022917/6 "2025-09-11T14:48:08Z")
I made a yahoo email account for my then dog 20+ years ago. I dont use it but I do have an old account tied to it so i was required to log in to get a one-time access code the other day. Despite having never(? - at least in many years) sent an email from it & only having _one_ account tied to it there were _hundreds_ of unread emails in there, including about 250+ from late Sept thru early Dec (supposedly) from Kamala’s kampaign, ~~asking~~ begging for money. A quick hovering over the sender name made them appear to be legit but I mass deleted all of them & cut the spam in my inbox about in half. My dog _never_ donated to _any_ political campaign, let alone one of someone who wasn’t a national name when she passed. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-mail/1022917/7 "2025-09-11T16:07:40Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > My dog _never_ donated to _any_ political campaign, let alone one of someone who wasn’t a national name when she passed. “This kind of canine voter apathy is why we have…” Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-mail/1022917/8 "2025-09-11T16:09:39Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > “This kind of canine voter apathy is why we have…” …some real dogs in orifice! {\<-- no, not a typo} ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-mail/1022917/9 "2025-09-11T17:35:43Z")
Email has never been the same after they put in domain addressing. If you couldn’t figure out a path to send mail to someone through ihnp4 or ucbvax, you shouldn’t be sending it. Kept the spam way down too. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-mail/1022917/10 "2025-09-11T17:53:37Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > Email has never been the same after they put in domain addressing. If you couldn’t figure out a path to send mail to someone through ihnp4 or ucbvax, you shouldn’t be sending it. Even that was too far. Email should have begun and ended with the [MIT CTSS `MAIL` system](https://www.multicians.org/thvv/mail-history.html). Anybody sending a message to `* *` gets their access locked down to whatever the equivalent of /dev/null on a IBM 7094 was. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-mail/1022917/11 "2025-09-11T18:14:48Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > Even that was too far. Email should have begun and ended with the [MIT CTSS `MAIL` system](https://www.multicians.org/thvv/mail-history.html). Anybody sending a message to `* *` gets their access locked down to whatever the equivalent of /dev/null on a IBM 7094 was. Never used CTSS, but my Programming Linguistics class I took freshman year (6.231 IIRC) was on Multics, so I used that, though it was still being developed. Also on PLATO a few years later, but more people used term talk, basically instant messaging in 1975. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-mail/1022917/12 "2025-09-11T18:19:09Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > If you want to rant about Yahoo mail I think this could be a good thread. This recently revived [Pit thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-can-go-somehow-sit-on-its-own-face-after-the-most-steaming-spicy-bowl-of-chili/774295) included a lot of ranting about Yahoo Mail. And as I mentioned it looks like a lot more people will get the chance to experience Yahoo Mail if they want to keep their Comcast email addresses: > [@Yahoo can go somehow sit on its own face after the most steaming spicy bowl of chili](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-can-go-somehow-sit-on-its-own-face-after-the-most-steaming-spicy-bowl-of-chili/774295/24): > > I would never choose to go with Yahoo as an email provider, but they are reportedly taking over email hosting from Comcast Xfinity, which has been my ISP and which has hosted my email (including my primary email account) for myself and the rest of my family for the past two decades. Great…I’m sure this will go well. roll_eyes ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-mail/1022917/13 "2025-09-11T19:08:57Z")
Mom got herself an account at Rocket Mail back before it was purchased by Yahoo. Her email address still has a [rocketmail.com](http://rocketmail.com) at the end of it, and to login to her account, she puts her username as (name).rm. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2025, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-mail/1022917/14 "2025-09-12T01:32:38Z")
I finally got Yahoo Mail on my phone. It’s got a quirk: every time I open it, my inbox has 6 years worth of emails in it. I go to edit so I can select all of them and delete them. Next time I open it, they’re back. Just a stupid annoyance. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2025, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yahoo-mail/1022917/15 "2025-09-14T02:40:59Z")
I’ve been trying to login to one of my Yahoo Mail accounts for a day or so. I get as far as entering the email address and getting through the page on which Google asks me to click on the photos of buses or crosswalks or whatever and then I get a message that I need to enter a verification code that’s being sent to my email address; the same one I’m trying to access. How can I know the verification code if I can’t open the mailbox?