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Yahoo! Disables Automatic Email Forwarding
Yahoo! disabled automatic email forwarding around the beginning of the month:
As Yahoo's embattled email service suffers through a slew of bad news, some users are finding it hard to leave. Automatic email forwarding was disabled at the beginning of the month, several users told The Associated Press. While those who've set up forwarding in the past are unaffected, some who want to leave over recent hacking and surveillance revelations are struggling to switch to rival services. "This is all extremely suspicious timing," said Jason Danner, who runs an information technology business in Auckland, New Zealand, and is trying to quit Yahoo after 18 years with the email provider.
Yahoo Inc. declined to comment on the recent change beyond pointing to a three-line notice on Yahoo's help site which says that that the company temporarily disabled the feature "while we work to improve it."
Also at BBC, PC World, and TechCrunch.
Previously: 500 Million Yahoo Accounts Hacked
Yahoo "Secretly Scanned Emails for US Authorities"
Amid Fallout from Hack and Spying, Yahoo! Disables Email Forwarding
After back-to-back revelations that hackers had compromised a staggering 500 million Yahoo Mail accounts and that the company had complied with a US government request to open incoming emails for surveillance, some users are having a hard time switching to any of Yahoo's competitors.
While it remains unclear how many users intend to leave over the privacy concerns and bad publicity, several told the Associated Press that their ability to do so has been hampered since the beginning of the month, when Yahoo disabled its automated email-forwarding option.
Those who had already set up their forwarding are unaffected, but those who wish to begin forwarding messages now are unable.
This ought to give pause to users who might one day want to get their data out of Facebook, too.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Wednesday October 12 2016, @01:40PM
I've got Thunderbird monitoring 2 gmail accounts, it downloads the email to my laptop and lets me do what I want with it. Did this because gmail wanted me to use tags and didn't let me make folders, which IMHO is just braindead. I think they finally allow folders, but I set this up years ago and see no reason to change.
I pity the fools who used Yahoo for email, they're really getting screwed now.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 2) by art guerrilla on Wednesday October 12 2016, @02:03PM
me too-ism here... use tbird for all my accts...
just flummoxed that -apparently- any and all email clients follow the lead of gmail and started FORCING MY -repeat MY- email into categories THEY feel is appropriate... oh really ? well fuck you very muvh for that non-help i did not want...
the further lumping of ALL the emails sent/received into one big pile of crap pisses me off, too... i want descrete emails, not one steaming pile of poop...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 12 2016, @02:07PM
Well, thankfully they did put this silly "Do you Yahoo!?" line at the bottom of each email sent from their service (I have no idea if they still do that). That back then was for me the reason not to get an email account with them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 12 2016, @03:06PM
That's OK. I pity the fools who use any free email provider. Because you, too, will find yourself screwed in time. If you haven't already. [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday October 12 2016, @08:19PM
I do similar, but the problem here is that Mozilla has dropped maintenance of Thunderbird. ... Well, I'm actually using icedove, but I don't know how much maintenance Debian does on it...and every other email client I've tried has failed my use case, sometimes abysmally. KMail died when I tried to reconstruct my folder tree. True, that was a couple of years ago, it some previous times it was even better than Thunderbird before just dying without warning and refusing to restart unless I deleted (well, moved) all my old e-mails. This isn't acceptable because some of the are programming language lists, and I may need a hint from 5 years ago.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 3, Informative) by termigator on Wednesday October 12 2016, @09:32PM
I still get updates for Thunderbird. I remember the announcement also, but it appears there is still folks doing maintenance on it.
(Score: 2) by termigator on Wednesday October 12 2016, @09:42PM
If you use the IMAP interface, labels get mapped to folders in your IMAP client.
One advantage labels have is that a message can be categorized into multiple "folders". Traditional folder-based MUAs do not support that well.
I have used Thunderbird as an IMAP client to Gmail, and it works fairly well. There are some quirks. Occassional I use the IMAP interface to download all email on Gmail servers for local archiving, where I use nmh if I need to work with archived mail.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday October 12 2016, @09:42PM
I pity the fools who used Yahoo for email, they're really getting screwed now.
But not for long in my case. I am also in Auckland New Zealand and my ISP used Yahoo for their email accounts. I had no real problem with that until the spying stuff turned up.
Before I could even get a suitable head of righteous indignation up the ISP in question began the process of migrating away from Yahoo.
I like to whinge and moan about how awful ISP's are, but in this case I think they've done the right thing.
(Score: 1) by tisI on Wednesday October 12 2016, @11:30PM
Same setup here
Set that up several years back to get anything worthwhile out of Yahoo mail and onto my HD.
I only use them for spam diversion now. Mostly what goes there are junk sites like Slashdot.
"Suppose you were an idiot...and suppose you were a member of Congress...but I repeat myself."