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posted by martyb on Wednesday October 12 2016, @12:09PM   Printer-friendly
from the how-ever-did-THAT-happen? dept.

We had two Soylentils write in to tell us this news.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by art guerrilla on Wednesday October 12 2016, @02:03PM

    by art guerrilla (3082) on Wednesday October 12 2016, @02:03PM (#413431)

    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...

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