interesting note, as I further search around to see if Yahoo has put up anything about their email issues, I've noticed that they took down a few questions on their own site about the problem, deleted it completely which makes me think - what are they hiding? what did they break? I realize this new IE7 might be causing some of the problem which is one reason I'm not upgrading mine - it defintely will break many of my programs that use IE and its still new, why upgrade now, wait until its been fully tested but that really not my point at the moment - yahoo is.
Yahoo is a great email source for free email and up until recently (this last week) the mail plus service worked like a charm too, I've had it for 2 years before they broke it. I will never buy another domain through Yahoo - live and learn, its was like pulling teeth to get that switch over to another domain registrar.
Apparently Yahoo buys their domains through MelbourneIT in Australia, so in order to get it release, I first had to contact Yahoo and cancel my Mail Plus/Domain Hosting with them, then get a authorization code from them which they said would be done that day..note here, if you call at 4pm on Friday, that day actually means 9am on Monday because they don't work on Sat/Sun and the number they give you to call back doesn't actually get you anywhere except a disconnected phone call. Then once Yahoo releases the domain to MelbourneIT, MelbourneIT has to release it to your new domain registrar and there is a number to call but its in Austrialia. Now I'm usually awake when its 8am there so not problem calling them but the average user probably wouldn't even know where to begin to track down all this information or how to figure out what the hell is going on with their domain and why is it taking so damn long to transfer it. I ended up emailing MelbourneIT to tell them its my domain name and I wanted it authorized to be released to my new domain registrar - which did the trick because it was done right away. And Yahoo never sent me the domain authorization code because they were sending it to the email address for the cancelled service. I had to call the phone number they gave me 5 times, then realized that wasn't getting me anywhere, so after intensively search yahoo and somehow came across a yahoo paid technical support number which btw is 866-492-4664 and getting some info and an actual number for technical support where they actually work and aren't reading from a script (866-849-8258), they gave me my domain authorization code.
Anyways, its all fixed, my email is back up, my domain is with godaddy which has great customer support and technical help and real people on the phone. My website will be back up soon.
And once thing I've noticed now that I'm switched over and just have my email going to my domain name, I'm not getting 600 spam emails a day, its gotta be something when a spammer sees yahoo.com at the end of an email address, send all the spam to that box.
I still can't figure out why yahoo doesn't want to admit something is wrong on their end. I used that email address for business occassionally and my friends and I need it to work especially if I'm paying for it, I want tech support that is available, too much to ask, I don't think so.
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