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26 May 2013, 07:51 PM | #1 |
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Yahoo stopped "creating extra email id"?
Whenever I started adding an alias, it keep redirecting the verification page again and again. Cleared cache/cookies. No help.
http://edit.yahoo.com/config/list_al...%2Fdc%2Flaunch Am I the only one affected or Yahoo stopped new extra email id registration? Last edited by just1acc : 27 May 2013 at 05:28 PM. Reason: Fixed the confusion created by me. Sorry guys. |
26 May 2013, 09:48 PM | #2 |
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no problems with creating a new alias in yahoo.co.uk
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27 May 2013, 01:08 AM | #3 |
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27 May 2013, 03:14 AM | #4 |
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A Yahoo alias is not an email address
Are you asking about the Yahoo.com free account Extra Email Address feature? This allows you to create only one additional email address (in addition to your mail account address). This extra address can only be changed twice per year.
The paid Yahoo Mail Plus accounts have a disposable email address feature which allows you to create up to 500 additional addresses (similar to plus addresses at Fastmail and Gmail but using a hyphen). A Yahoo alias is not an email address. You can create 6 aliases: Yahoo! Account Help - What is an alias? When I try to change some things in my Yahoo account it forces another sign-in. Bill |
27 May 2013, 04:33 AM | #5 |
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27 May 2013, 04:40 AM | #6 |
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So is this shown as an alias on your profile? As the link shows, Yahoo uses "alias" to mean a way to show your identity to others, not an email address. If your account is a free one, my guess is that you have only one of these additional email addresses and you can't create another. That's how yahoo.com accounts work at least.
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27 May 2013, 05:15 AM | #7 |
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Oh well, I wish I never started.....
I have four aliases, but one, and only one, of them can be used as an email address. Don't remember how I created this particular alias .... |
27 May 2013, 01:49 PM | #8 |
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Yahoo - Problem Creating Extra eMail Address
Greetings from Canada !
OK, first, let's get our terms clarified. REAL ADDITIONAL EMAIL ADDRESSES : Hotmail etc calls these an 'alias'. Yahoo calls these an 'extra email address'. (They share the same mailboxes as your primary account ID email address.) On Yahoo, an 'alias' is instead only an alternate screen name for your main email address. If you go to the Yahoo Answers website, there are now a total of 4 threads where folks in USA & Canada have lamented this problem over the past few days. http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/search/s...d-saved-search If my above link does not work, then on the Yahoo Answers website you will need to do a search for "problem creating extra email address" (without the quotes). You will see the 4 threads where at least 7 of us have reported this anomaly. There is no solution so far, but this issue does not stop you from doing your regular email activities. One of MY posts there is much more detailed as to what I have and have not tried, and what has made no difference. http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question...3082737AAZMlBV So far there is no solution. Yahoo's online Customer support is no use at all, and seems to now be run by BOTs which COMPLETELY ignore any info which you offer on your own and/or in response to their scripted queries, and just give you more of same. When you grow tired of this (and say so), they close the incident when it is still not resolved. Having become unstereotypically grumpy for a Canadian about this foolishness, I have yesturday backed up all of my 12+ years of mail from there to offline (Yes Virginia, you CAN do this with a free Yahoo account, but there are some internal settings to change first, and you have to move mail back and forth between any custom folders and the inbox, one folder at a time, collect each group, and redistribute them in your email client app). I am preparing to shut down my account, for Yahoo as a company is not what it used to be, IMNSHO. Cheers ALL ! Last edited by Davesnothere : 28 May 2013 at 03:55 AM. |
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From the last and very informative post by Davesnothere I can see there is a bug. At least they haven't shut it down yet. |
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28 May 2013, 02:55 AM | #10 |
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Welcome to the forums 'Davesnothere' - I do hope you come back to read this.
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28 May 2013, 03:52 AM | #11 |
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[quote=just1acc;556244]....From the last and very informative post by Davesnothere I can see there is a bug....QUOTE]
Thanks. I cannot help but wonder whether this is a slimey corporate ploy to coerce folks to upgrade their Yahoo email accounts to 'Yahoo PLUS' status, where they let you create hundreds of email alter-egos which all share the same mailboxes, among other extra privileges, for only $20 per year (USD, AFAIK). In that case, it may or may not be worth doing so, but they oughta be up-front and fifth-right with us all, fergoodnesssakes, and not play these stupid games ! BTW, on the Yahoo Answers website, in 3 out of 4 of the threads about this hassle, my posts have now been voted 'Best Answer', even though neither I nor Yahoo have solved it. Small consolation.... UPDATE : There are now at least 9 threads there, as of today. - I have posted in a couple more of them. Last edited by Davesnothere : 8 Jun 2013 at 07:23 PM. Reason: UPDATE |
28 May 2013, 04:01 AM | #12 |
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30 May 2013, 02:11 AM | #14 |
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Not solved yet.
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8 Jun 2013, 07:12 PM | #15 |
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Update, FWIW
On another message board where I have been active for a long time, I decided to begin the below-linked thread in one of the forums :
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r283...k-seems-Broken It contains several further links about this issue, some of which contain more of my caustic negative rhetoric about/toward Yahoo. Just trying to get the word out there. But I have also opened a new account at Outlook.com, and collected offline all of my mail and contacts from 2 Yahoo accounts. Heaven forbid, M$ seems to be the lesser evil these daze, in WebMail, at least ! That's right, it's still not solved, and Yahoo has had since at least May 22nd to fix it (that's when I first encountered the anomaly). Last edited by Davesnothere : 8 Jun 2013 at 07:20 PM. |
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