It appears that Yahoo Mail is suffering from an outage. Complaints from Yahoo Mail users are all over Twitter. It’s unclear how extensive the outage is and what is causing the issue but we’ll report back when we find out.
Yahoo Mail is currently the No. 1 Web mail service with 300 million people using it worldwide, so even a smaller outage could result in a large amount of people not having access to their email accounts. Competitor Gmail also succumbed to a serious outage recently, leaving users with nearly eight hours of downtime.
Update: It appears that the outage isn’t system-wide but users are still complaining of the service being down. Coincidentally, Yahoo is shutting down Geocities today so perhaps they pulled the wrong plug?
Update 2: Yahoo posted this update on the Yahoo mail blog:
A small fraction of Yahoo! Mail users may have experienced intermittent email issues earlier today, October 26, but the problem has now been resolved. We believe this was an isolated incident. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Works fine here.
The Yahoo mail Mobile site m.yahoo.com still works though, so if you really really need to access your yahoo mail account now do it from your phone!
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Works fine for me here too.
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yep- having problems accessing it from Austin, TX via AT&T DSL…
Yahoo! Mail is working fine for me.
Well was on yahoo mail for a little while to get most of my emails. But last email and boom it was not connecting. Good thing I have more than one email service. Can get on the website and into my yahoo but cannot connect with yahoo mail.
Yahoo Mail might have been a huge Geocities account. Wouldn’t that be terrible?!
RIP Geocities
working fine for me
Am in Germany right now and Yahoo is down and out for hours now.
It probably depends what server farm you are on – uk.mg4.mail.yahoo.com is toast, and some US farms as well by the looks of things… nasty if it’s on both sides of the lake as it’s likely more than someone tripping over the power lead.
YES… having issues! That is my work email! Had to forward everything to my gmail account via my iphone – only way to access my yahoo emails.
Thanks for looking into it.
My btinternet email address runs through yahoo and I’m not having problems (nor have had any) all day here in the UK.
It works fine for me now. I was trying to log on to flickr yesterday and I couldn’t. I really wished that you didn’t have to log on their site through your yahoo mail account. It kind of pissed me off.
what’s up?
But it’s working in Austin via TWC RoadRunner. Go figure.
I already figured a way around it.
Change this (4)
http://us.mg4.mail.yahoo.com
To this: (notice the 3 instead of the four it worked for me)
http://us.mg3.mail.yahoo.com
Thanks Facebook User… that worked for me!
Your welcome.
If none of the above work. clear the cache, cookies etc. and try this,
http://us.mg3.m....com/dc/launch?
then sign in. I’ve tried it and it works.
My yahoo e-mail is giving me tons of trouble! Cannot display error comes up. Can’t access mail. Can’t send …can’t believe it.
I need my e-mail up …AHHHH!!!
Down in Central Ohio
@Damon Klee’ – your trick really works!!! Thanks!
after going to http://us.mg3.mail.yahoo.com, it still defaults back to http://us.mg4.mail.yahoo.com giving 12029 errors when trying to read the mail messages. Anyone know why this is happening yet? Now Yahoo mail is running like Microsoft software. A true merger indeed.
I don’t know your exact situation,. I’va gotten reply from other users who have had success with:
http://us.mg3.m....com/dc/launch?
I just tried it again and it works…
Are you in the U.S.?
Ok I got it figured. Do not use this link
http://us.mg3.mail.yahoo.com/
Try this one: http://us.mg3.m....com/dc/launch?
Then sign in….
Yes that works straight away. How did you do that? Brilliant!! Now working in Scotland!!
http://www.face...h/?q=damon+Klee‘&init=quick
I can´t acess my Yahoo Mail. From Brasil, 1h30 pm
Yahoo mail is a horrible user experience and they are not innovating any more. Yahoo services seem to be going to hell in general, Using Yahoo mail today is risky and reckless because based on the number of people who have left Yahoo, you have to wonder about the quality of the people who are running these services.
This would be a good time for most people to consider alternatives.
Yahoo! Mail is working all day in Romania.
I went at different times in my Yahoo and everything went perfectly
i’m in Romania and it wasn’t working.
I’m facing outage. My business stopped. :S. Also, they need lots of improvements in their mail features. Mail search is the area which really needs yahoo attention. It never works.
I work for Yahoo and have had an email account with them forever. But I’ve finally switched to gmail. The crappy new UI, the annoying pop-ups asking me to “Connect” with friends, the slowness, etc. etc. etc.
Yahoo mail not working in Scotland
Yahoo is free right? You get what you pay for . People crack me up complaining about things they have not PAID A RED CENT for. The arrogance of the digital freeloaders is comical. And who uses free email systems for work ? That’s odd and very , how do i say .. BROKE .
Excuse me, but I pay for my Yahoo. I have every right to complain.
I’ve had no outages at all here in central IL. My default server appears to be us.mg2.mail.yahoo.com.
They must be using Zimbra. huh uh huh huh.
I hate how yahoo mail tries to make me real time chat with my contacts, “add them” to my chat list, etc etc
its so lame and no one adopts these tricks.
hey yahoo mail, stop trying to be cool. NO ONE is going to use you for in email chat and thats it. U missed the bus, deal with it
OMG! They have taken down the Y! Mail instead of geocities! =D lol. Its back to normal now, BTW
Good to know … thanks so much for the update!
I wonder if it had anything to do with the new launch of a viral marketing company, which started around Friday, just before the weekend?
Their site is http://www.BlastoffPortal.com
Or is it perhaps just a coincidence that they’ve had about 100’s of million pieces of email probably go out since it’s launch? I know people all over facebook are talking about it.
I can’t access my yahoo mail from the space station.
I haven’t received any email at all from Yahoo for around 6 or so hours now, which is very VERY unusual for me. I usually get a steady stream of emails from mailing lists, facebook and twitter notifications, and so forth. But for the past 6 hours…. NONE. Even though I can very clearly see that there are notifications I should have gotten and a few emails I’ve gotten from services at exactly the same day every day.
So, sorry Yahoo, the issue is NOT yet resolved for me at this particular hour.
Still having problems today, 27th October. Attachments either won’t load or take for ever. And these are small files. Having all kinds of error messages
my yahoo mail isnt working and i dont think they care at all driving me crazy