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Reader Reviews : Yahoo! Mail - Free Email Service

User Rating 1.5 Star Rating (62 Reviews)

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(You can also check archived user reviews up to and including August 2011.)

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New Small Business Yahoo! Mail a Real Nightmare

Yahoo mail for small business is the worst option I have ever encountered, and the new Yahoo mail is even worse than the classic version. The classic version was constantly freezing and drafts got lo…More

Yahoo! Mail not Perfect, Better Than Others

I've been using Yahoo since they offered their email service in the beginning. My first account is not working anymore, simply just stopped—cannot send or get my email. So, I created a new acco…More

Yahoo! Mail Bad, Many Technical Problems

CONS - -Many bugs - unable to send large files. gets stuck when attempting to attach files - difficulties logging in - poor Chrome support - logging in bugs - poor quality of service - no free connec…More

Yahoo! Mail One of the Worst

Yahoo does not know how to prevent hackers, and Yahoo does not know how to identify the real owner of the account. In short, Yahoo is one of the [worst] mail services out there!…More

Yahoo! Mail Works Fine

I honestly do not know why everyone hates Yahoo! so much. it works fine and it DOES NOT DELETE UR EMAILS. Also, you get access to YA!, an answer community. i like it alot, and i don't care if evryone…More

Yahoo! Mail and Spam

Their spam filters finally work better than they did. I worked with someone in their concierge dept for a year she set filters for me and sometimes they worked. What fries me is I get a tremendous am…More

Don't Use Yahoo or You'll Lose All Your Mail

I am yet another poor sap that trusted Yahoo Mail for far too long, but lost all of the emails sitting in my inbox due to Yahoo's inability to restore after Yahoo lost them all. Yahoo has become a pi…More

Yahoo! Mail Great Value — Till You Need Help

Great value… until you need help. No hot line when they deleted the past 2 years worth of my emails. They'll contact me sometime in the next 24 hours, and they can do restores (not guaranteed) …More

No Yahoo! Mail without Yahoo! Mail Classic

I guess since I can no longer switch back to "Yahoo classic" I'm just going to another mail service..like Juno or MSN.. I've been using "classic" for a lot of years....but so much for "progress"…More

New Yahoo! Mail a Sad Excuse for an Email System

My Yahoo Classic has unilaterally been switched to Yahoo New which is a sad excuse for an email system.It is poorly designed and far, far from complete. It should not have been presented to the publi…More

Yahoo! Mail is Irritating

Yahoo mail is irritating to say the least. Every time I log in, it wants to update my system. At first, there was a "No Thanks" button. Now there is not one, so either I have to update, which not a h…More

Yahoo! Vulnerable to Invasion by Scammers

Yahoo has proved vulnerable to invasion by scammers who then use innocent email accounts to send evil notices to everyone in the victim's address book. In addition, there are few services to assist i…More

Every Yahoo! Mail Feature Unstable, Unreliable or Broken

Who writes these 'professional reviews'? Their line is that Yahoo Mail is great. Yet almost every user thinks it is now a pathetic shadow of what it once was.Yahoo Mail has gone from being an excelle…More

Hacked

Yahoo Mail has allowed my account to be hacked along with my friends and family. I wrote them, and all they suggest is to change my password. So I did. I got hacked again like three days later. You c…More

Want Original Yahoo! Mail Back

I cannot find spell check with this new Yahoo format. Please change it back the way it was… or I will have to find another email add. I would never recommend Yahoo as it is now. How can I get i…More

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