Is yahoo pop3 mail server down..?
Our money should be funding a working service. I pay for my yahoo mail account, and use outlook and it is crazy slow sending mail. There is a known problem that many people are having if not everyone who uses outlook and yahoo. I made a Gmail account, and it had free pop service, and worked fine in outlook. You can even add your yahoo email to your gmail and gmail will check mail in your yahoo account. I would imagine that yahoo is hurting from this.
This is a known problem that I have reported to Yahoo since Feb 8th. They keep saying they are escalating it for resolution, but it isn’t fixed yet. I cannot get any answer about what is causing it, just generic apologies & assurances that “they’re working on it”. Even Yahoo’s voicemail menu said “If you are calling about the outbound message delay…” On 2/15, I got an email from Yahoo that the problem was fixed- WRONG! My emails sent out last nite around 930pm did not actually go OUT via Yahoo’s smtp server until about 625am this morning. Hard for me to understand WHY the media is not jumping on this major Yahoo problem that has caused grief for 1 1/2 weeks now . We hear enough about Microsoft offering to buy Yahoo, so…. I am also sending emails now directly from Yahoo & avoiding the smtp server, except for my “test” messages. Really annoying since I am PAYING Yahoo for MailPlus! I wonder if this problem is connected to Yahoo’s authentication project with Ebay/Paypal. It certainly
