I have had my Yahoo account for a very long time. I am about to shut it down and stay with Gmail. I have the Verification key. Just now a message came across my app on my phone asking me if I was signing in from 4 different locations with in a 1 minute period. I denied all of them. Signed in to change my password. I CAN'T CHANGE MY PASSWORD!!! There is NO where for me to change it. I hate the new look, it looks plain and simple like something from the 80's you want me to pay to have a nicer looking email. Now you want me to pay to have emails forwarded to another account. Mail in the app on my phone is a nightmare. None of it loads right away. As I delete spam (that you are not filtering out) more messages load when I think I am done. I use to love Yahoo. Not anymore. The last 6 yrs you have gone seriously downhill.

It hasn't happened yet but I've been notified that Yahoo is going to stop Autoforwarding. This is the single stupidest idea I have ever heard. First off, they only give us about 2-3 days notice and they claim the change is because it is not secure. Based on the hacking issues they've had in the past, I would say Auto Forwarding was not the problem. They also say I can pay for a higher account that still has this option. Tell me, with so many email options out there now, why would I pay for something that is treated as a basic function on other platforms? The cherry on top is that the other suggestion they make is to have Yahoo be the base and have other emails sent to Yahoo instead of the other way around, essentially forcing users to use a free option on another platform to forward to Yahoo because they decided it wasn't going to be free on their platform anymore. RIDICULOUS!!!

I understand that this must be a competitive market but if Yahoo wants to remain competitive they have to avoid making decisions like this.

Dear Yahoo,
Thank you for the 3-4 days notice that you will be cancelling the "free forwarding my yahoo emails to another provider".
I am an educator, doing remotely learning with our students and also juggling remote learning with my own elementary child.
I am in no way completely reliant on forwarding my emails for work and personal.
I am also not overwhelmed at all for the 2020/2021 school year and sometimes break down with sheer exhaustion.
I am so glad that you gave me such advanced notice, so that I could readdress all my emails to my other provider.
I really appreciate the offer for me to pay monthly for the service of you still forwarding my emails.
I politley decline that offer.
It is so good to see you looking out for your customers.
Please excuse any grammar or spelling mistakes as currently my eyes and my head are both hurting at the sheer amount of unavailable extra time this is going to involve for me.
Really appreciate you looking out for your customers.
I am sure many others in the same position would like to express their gratitude as well.

Yours sincerely,
Speaking on behalf of many as a overwhelmed, overworked, underpaid, sometimes under appreciated and completely exhausted educator, mother and wife.

PS. The time to write this did my soul good...........

Update SPAM-Filter

I have been very happy with the SPAM-Filter for a long time. But recently there are frequently email coming in which display "service@amazon.com" or similar, but are obviously randomly generated emails (40 characters before the @, also a ton of random characters as a domain name). Please include in the spam-filter that everything with >30 char before the @ and everything that displays as typical domains (amazon, paypal, etc.), but obviously don't come from that domain are SPAM. It is not possible to add such a rule in the manual filters, so please make it a standard

Really a performance/frustration issue, why can't I delete the thousands of unwanted email in my inbox? I shouldn't have to keep paying for poor email hygiene of ten years ago. If I could delete by date or by special searches (or just move to an archive I could delete later), I would be such a happier camper. Right now, no matter what I do, to delete the 40,000-plus messages that are long past their expiration dates, I would have to go through the same process 400 times (select all, hit delete, hit yes, wait for the list to reload). That's not remotely practical. Believe me, I've tried. But it would take 8 hours or longer — of constant attention!