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  1. 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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  2. I need the Classic mail back! The new one & the basic one stink! I can't read the font. It is so small I'm getting a headache !

    The basic has no color control and the screen is hurting my eyes. Between that and the extremely small font, I have a headache just trying to read my emails! You really need to fix this.

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  3. I would like to change back to the old version of email

    Is there a way to change my email back to the old version -- or am I stuck with this new one ?

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  5. I have never in my life received as much spam as I have over the last 2 months? What's going on. I do not search does companies.

    Spam, over 100 spams in a day. Yet, important emails also go to spam. So I have to waste my time looking through spam so I don't delete or put them on unroll me list which by the way doesn't work. Every day important emails go to my spam. What's up Yahoo? This is so annoying to say the least.

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  7. im not sure why you all dont have a delete all button on emails instead of us deleting 20 at a time i would like to delete them all at once

    have a delete all button so we have that option instead of going thru 50 at a time. takes up to much time when you can install a delete all button and zap there gone

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  9. 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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  10. Please Pleae stop i do not want to change my password I will never ever give out my phone number so please stop asking me

    Please Pleae stop i do not want to change my password I will never ever give out my phone number so please stop asking me I should not have to keep being asked I have skipped it for the last three months if it continues I will have to stop using this email cause it is not worth the headache that you give me. As it is I have decicided to pay Verizon to have an email there cause of the frustration I get from just trying to log on you only allowing me to skip and not stop asking…

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  11. Allow deletion or change of disposable address base name.

    Once a disposable address's base name is created it can not be changed. This is pretty useless and needs to change.

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  12. 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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  13. I switched back to basic because the new version of mail isn't working correctly, won't let you delete messages, go to compose, move message

    I switched back to basic because the new version of mail isn't working correctly, won't let you delete messages, go to compose, move message nothing is working right and have to close page and reopen just to read messages. Need to go back to Classic Mail as nothing works right on the new version of Mail so had to go back to basic just to get it to work!!!

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  15. Heres what you can do. you can stop making me sign in every time I want to see my mail

    Why do I have to sign every time I want to read my mail? I do not want to change my password, I just want to be able to access my mail. I nam not interested in sports, or advertisements, or vacations or clothing or politics. Ijust want to read my mail

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  16. In "Recent Activity", eliminate "Sign Out".

    It makes no sense to allow someone to "sign out" an entry in the "Recent Activity" list. If I can sign out (and eliminate the listing of a session) then so can someone that's compromised my account.

    Also, "sign out" is a bit misleading. It sounds like the user may still be logged in somewhere (even if they've most certainly logged out). It should just be called "delete", because that's more apt to what you're doing. But again, I don't think being able to delete entries from this list aligns with the goal of a recent activity log.

    I would…

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  18. i hate basic and the new email, i want my old email back

    i hate the basic and new email i want my old email back now!

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  19. I want the old email back, PLEASE!

    My email changed after a forced update by Windows. Can I please have the option to have my old (basic) email back?

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  20. Do NOT AUTOMATICALLY EMPTY TRASH FOLDER!!! I absolutely cannot STAND this flippin feature! Please..

    Whenever I end up needing an email I deleted, I cant go back and retrieve it..why? Because my Trash folder is automatically emptied. I am hoping you can retrieve my recent DRAFT email that I SAVED and cannot find. Im ****** because I needed that. If its not retrieved and the possibility of the auto Emptying of the Trash folder not being resolved. Im so gone. We need room for error and automatically deleting stuff takes away the second chance most of us need.

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