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  1. I don't have any suggestions on this but I need help and cannot find an email address or proper help in your links. I received a weird phone

    I received a weird phone call today at 5:15 pm MST, stating that my account has been linked to sending out spam, and that there were logins from Ohio and I think he said Kansas and if I had been in those areas recently. He wanted me to login to my account and do something but I was in my vehicle and told him I couldn't. He said then my account would be suspended.
    I just checked and there have not been any logins from other places recently than my current location.
    The phone number on the call was 885-225-6784.…

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  2. DOESNT WORK!!!! Its useless!!

    Yahoo Mail is a complete FAIL!!! After spending an hour doing EVERYTHING Yahoo lists to do to get email working.....ITS STILL DOESNT WORK!!!!

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  3. Fix your SERVERS!

    Verizon cannot spend $10 million to upgrade your servers?? This has been an ongoing issue with Yahoo Mail for at least 2 years now.
    Bells and whistles are nice (it keeps your young programmers employed, I guess) but you need to get back to basics, or keep losing business to Google.

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  4. Are u deliberately dnloading ads to force upgrading? Most ppl enjoy basic...pls fix your ads!!

    If it's NOT broke....stop trying to fix it! Elderly ppl like myself enjoy simplicity. Those who want the change will get it, but Classic IS classic and does what I need

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  5. I see you have degraded the original mail experience in order to coerce me to switch. That is an excellent customer relations idea.

    I see you have degraded the original mail experience in order to coerce me to switch. That is an excellent customer relations idea.

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  8. SPAM NOT WORKING

    I'm getting 20-30 SPAM emails in my regular mail each hour. What the ****? Is the SPAM feature not working?

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  9. cannot download attachment

    coudnt download any attachment.when i try to do that i get a message "engineers are working to resolve the issue.This is happening for 5 day

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  10. Yahoo changed my email without my permission

    Yahoo sux , nobody wants this new email format,,,Today Yahoo locked me out of my email I have had since 2000....it forced me to use this new email feces....

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  11. Restore Classic Mail

    I opened my mail this morning and some person completely changed Classic Mail. Are you people really this stupid as to keep changing what works and your users like or are you trying to make us abandon Yahoo and go to Gmail or another mail server? Because that is what is going to happen. The changes are so bad that your New Yahoo Mail looks more like the Classic Mail than the Classic Mail looks now.

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  12. 50% of the time, especially with larger trailing emails, the email becomes extremely slow. Typing each character on replies is very slow.

    50% of the time, especially with larger trailing emails, the email becomes extremely slow. Typing each character on replies will have a delay of half second or 1 second each character. This is really bad. Makes the email unusable because typing each character is so slow.

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  13. I want my IMAGES back. . . . I do not want them blocked.

    I want my IMAGES back. . . . .I do not want them blocked.

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  15. The quantity of Yahoo stock I own is inversely proportional to the amount of spam that gets through the filters.

    Bring back the previous form of spam filtering. It worked much better than the current version.

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  16. Stop vulgar spam coming from **** sites!

    Stop vulgar spam from **** sites!

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  17. Fire the ******* who made the decision to FORCE customers (remember that word?!)

    Kick the decisionmaker ********** and walk him/her/they OUT THE DOOR! I'm sick of forced changes in my e-mail. Put the basic e-mail back in the old format or I'll make other decisions. A$$holes!

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  18. return to old version until you can get the functionality working. PLEASE!!

    I commented below but the biggest thing I do not like is that I cannot open an attachment in the email. I have to save it to the hard drive which is time waster and resource user.

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  20. Cannot receive texts from cell phones since 2/21/18, please change whatever is blocking this function. I've been doing it for many years!

    Cannot receive texts from cell phones since 2/21/18, please change whatever is blocking this function. I've been doing it for many years, but now all of a sudden it has stopped working. I can send to people like this 925**11*@mms.att.net and they are still receiving the messages, but I am not receiving their replies or original texts. I'm not a nood, I've gone over every possible setting and nothing makes any difference. Please fix whatever caused this change.

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