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  1. why are my emails being marked as read on arrival when I have clearly said in my settings NEVER for this. I have tried different browsers.

    This is happening across my devices and across my browsers. I have searched online but can't find a solution. Please help or I'm ditching my yahoo account that i've been using for over 10 years as important mail is being missed because of this.

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  2. WHY CAN'T YOU LEAVE THINGS ALONE? Why do you always have to change what is working OK? Is there an itch in your arsehole?

    WHY CAN'T YOU LEAVE THINGS ALONE? Why do you always have to change what is working OK? Is there an itch in your arsehole?

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  3. I need a better way to delete over 11000 emails ...I cant sit and do 100 @ a time

    You need to create a field where you cant delete mass emails...I have over 11000 I want to get rid of.....clear my whole account...you have just a 100 at a time...when you start it so slow I would be here till next year.

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  4. Stop Auto Play and Auto Audio.

    It is invasive, annoying and unwanted.

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  5. Fix the email search

    A search of my email often doesn't return all the correct results.

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  7. Tabs in basic version is missing

    I can't work with this new version. everything takes sooo long.
    the window changes it size all the time and I can't reply an email like that.
    I switched back to the basic version but I miss the tabs.. can't open few email on the same time and switch between them.
    Also, "Enable conversations" is a good option to add to the basic version, but only as an optional.
    I wish you had a phone number because it is difficult for me to express myself and explain everything in English and in writing...

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  8. I asked you to stop geo-checking upon log-in, because some people use VPN

    But you still go on checking. How should I receive a security code at another mail account given they apply the same logic as you do?! And don't resort to the SMS way-out: I have a number of SIM cards in the varuous countries I visit, so would not know which one to give you.

    The bottomline: I don't want you to care about my security other than that you keep your hard- and software in good running shape. Let my personal organisation be my personal matter.

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  9. I hate this version!!!! I want my old version back

    Get ride of the side ads. This is not what I want in a search engine. I cannot read my emails as the ad covers it. Next move is to go to a new search engine. the choice is your

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  11. Unable to open mail if traveling to another country provided a telephone number is given and you are unable to use that phone number while

    I am unable to open my mail when traveling to another country due to yahoo security issue. I have provided my phone number. So when I login from a different country, yahoo is doubtful and prompt to send a code to the registered mobile number. What if I don't use my registered phone in the country where I am travelling ?. My registered phone may not work in a different country. That means you are lost the access if you provide your mobile number. SO DO NOT PROVIDE YOUR MOBILE NUMBER

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  12. delete message with one click option

    There should be an option to delete all email with one click instead of doing it one page at a time I have over 43,000 messages in my inbox that I want deleted so that I can managed it now

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  13. Fix the mailbox so that it doesn't show that you have gotten e-mails when you haven't.

    For instance, Mine keeps saying that I have got 3 or 4 new e-mails but when I go to my inbox, there is nothing new there. May have a lot more spam then usual, but nothing in my mailbox. I know this may be a free service, but some of us has better things to do then go to an empty mailbox to read something that it says is there and it is not. This does it most in my toolbar. It will show mail when it don't. Please fix it.

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  14. Stop the ads! They take up my mail viewing space on the page, constantly blinking and I CAN'T hardly see my mail to read. It's so annoying!

    At least make the ads smaller and the mail viewing page larger. It's supposed to be about our email, not 100 ads popping up. If we wanted to see advertising we could go on the web or something. It's rediculous and makes even wanting to go to my yahoo email at home a dread. I really hate it! I would rather view my mail on my phone. Just simple. How much is enough guys? Really? Where's the focus, on the mail customers or the advertising because I feel I'm being bombarded by ads blinking up constantly all over every single…

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  15. Unable to login when traveling to different countries. Prompt to send a code to mobile number. But I use different mobile number.

    Unable to login when traveling to different countries. Prompt to send a code to mobile number. But I use different mobile number. So sending the code to the registered mobile is no use. The registered mobile may not work always in a different country always.

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  17. I keep being asked for a cell number. I own no cell phone. I have been locked out when I travel. Please respect my password always.

    quit locking me out when I travel. I have no cell phone. My alternative email address is also locked for one week. It sucks to be without communication. I have no cell phone. getit?

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  18. deleting all emails at one time from inbox

    they have the option to empty spam mail.. but do not offer this for regular email... change this

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  19. Search Email does not work

    Email searching does not work in either the old or new Yahoo Mail. In the old version it triggers an error and in the new version it returns zero results, even if I type in something from a recent email.

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  20. When are you ******* idiots going to fix yahoo email?

    Maybe you should all stop crawling up that CEO's *** and do some freeking work for a change...what a joke...cant post this as I CANT FREKKIN SIGN IN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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