tarekma7 Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 Yahoo Mail owner Verizon announced this week that free users of the Yahoo Mail service will soon be unable to use email forwarding options. The company will drop the feature for free accounts entirely on January 1, 2021. Mail forwarding allows users to forward incoming emails automatically to another account; this can be useful to get emails listed in another email account, e.g. when Yahoo Mail is not the primary account of the user, or if Yahoo Mail is not used actively anymore but some email is important enough to be forwarded. Quote Yahoo notes on a support page: Beginning January 1, 2021, automatic forwarding of emails from your Yahoo inbox to a third party email account will no longer be a feature of free Yahoo Mail accounts. Upgrade to Yahoo Mail Pro or subscribe to Access + Forwarding to use the auto forwarding feature at this time. Starting January 1, 2021, Yahoo Mail will stop forwarding emails to any account. The emails remain in the Yahoo inbox and can be accessed from there, but the option to have these emails forwarded automatically will not be available anymore at that point. Paying Yahoo Mail customers are unaffected by the change and can continue to use email forwarding just like before. Yahoo's reason for removing the feature from free accounts is security, according to the support page. Quote We regularly evaluate our products and services against current security standards and have decided to remove this feature to help ensure free Yahoo Mail accounts remain secure. The change will help us focus on building the best new features and experiences for our Yahoo Mail users. Email forwarding can be -- and was in the past -- abused to forward important emails, e.g. password resetting emails, pin verification emails, and others, to a hacker's account. Free Yahoo Mail users who rely on email forwarding are asked to upgrade their accounts to Yahoo Mail Pro or subscribe to Access + Forwarding. Yahoo Mail Pro is available for €3.49 per month giving customers an ad-free environment, better performance, and auto-forwarding among other options. There are secure alternatives to Yahoo Mail, or other free or paid email services such as Gmail or Outlook. Swiss-based ProtonMail offers paid accounts for 4€ per month, Germany-based Posteo accounts start at 1€ per month, and Tutanota, also Germany-based, accounts start at €1 per month as well. Yahoo Mail users can check Settings > More Settings > Mailboxes > [primary mailbox account] > Forwarding > Forwarding address to check whether forwarding is enabled. Now You: Which email provided do you use currently, and why? Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicSahar Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 Quote Verizon is removing the ability to automatically forward incoming emails from a Yahoo inbox to another email address for Yahoo Mail free users. The feature will be removed on January 1, 2021. Source : https://www.zdnet.com/article/yahoo-mail-discontinues-automatic-email-forwarding-for-free-users/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkyy Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 Just like drug dealers do...give them it free at first, then when they are dependent on it up the price. What's next "Yahoo Pro" "Yahoo Gold" at a price etc etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karlston Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 Similar topics merged. Please use Search before posting, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UberGeek Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 Outside of official arena, the concept of e-mail is being slaughtered by WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc., etc. Yahoo! is contributing to the massacre by committing suicide . . . unbelievable! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vitorio Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 6 hours ago, UberGeek said: Yahoo! is contributing to the massacre by committing suicide . . . unbelievable! If they believe they are the last bottle of water in the dessert they are dead wrong and there are choose the route to extinction as Netscape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkyy Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 Now the latest from Yahoo. When I log-in to my account inbox I get a message saying I should disable my ad-blocker. They say an ad-blocker can inject code causing you to lose important mail (??) Then when you close that box a 15 second wait is imposed before you can continue reading/typing your emails, and your inbox contents are greyed out. Oh, but you can go "ad free" if you pay $3.49 a month. So now Yahoo is twisting our arms up our backs....the same Yahoo that was guilty of a data breach and got fined....I guess THIS IS THEIR WAY OF MAKING US PAY THE FINE FOR THEM!!! Screenshots:- https://i.imgur.com/CHPyazm.png https://i.imgur.com/CHPyazm.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 27 minutes ago, funkyy said: So now Yahoo is twisting our arms up our backs....the same Yahoo that was guilty of a data breach and got fined Yahoo is a dead cow there not even Yahoo anymore Microsoft bought there ads out and Verizon bought the company just like they bought AOL who also has a email service. Verizon has no insert in there services for desktop there not profitable there bread and butter is Mobile . They messed yahoo up already they most likely shut it down one day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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