Monday, July 7, 2008

Wake Up Yahoo!!

I've been an avid Yahoo Email user (I know, I know...I'm making the move to gmail now get off my back already!) for at least 15 years, if not more, and I haven't been able to access my Yahoo Email account for the past week.

I logged in, well tried to, last Tuesday and kept getting the same login screen over and over and over again. The MyYahoo page showed that I was logged in, but I couldn't access my email.

Ok...maybe it's a hiccup, it happens.

A week later and I still can't access my email.

Over the past few days I did various searches on the net (using google, suckit Yahoo!) regarding this issue and was shocked to find so many other people had the same problem.

In searching for a fix, I stumbled across the following:

http://www.ymailblog.com/blog/2008/06/external-accounts/

http://www.ymailblog.com/blog/2008/06/2nd-update-external-account/

http://www.ymailblog.com/blog/2008/06/update-issues-retrieving-from-external-accounts/

Although this doesn't seem to related 100% to my issue, it does seem to have something with my not being able to access email...or does it?

According to the support emails I've received (two of them) it could be:

1. Broswer Cache
2. Java Update
3. Firewall
4. Anti-Virus Software
5. Browser Plug-Ins
6. etc., etc., etc.

I begrudgingly follow the 85 (not really) different 'troubleshotting tips' provided and still no fix.

Can't access my Yahoo Email.

Although I found a ton of people on the net, ironically enough most of them using Yahoo Answers, with the same problem I have yet to find a fix or official comment from Yahoo about this 'known' issue.

So with that said...I reach out to you, the Digg community.

Please oh please help me!