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Question from Cindy: I’ve used Yahoo mail for decades but I recently started having problems with it.
I finally got fed up with it and switched to Gmail this morning. I’ve already imported my Yahoo emails and contacts into the new Gmail account.
Since I really don’t need the Yahoo account anymore, can you tell me how to delete it?
Thanks in advance for your help.
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Question from Thalia: Hi, Rick. I hope you can help me with something.
I just read your post about how Yahoo is deleting all the emails from inactive accounts.
I want to delete my Yahoo email account because I never use it anymore, but I have thousands of important emails in my Yahoo email account that I really need to keep.
Can you tell me how to move all of those emails from Yahoo into the Gmail account I just opened?
Do you have some important old messages that you don’t want to lose stored in a Yahoo Mail account that you haven’t logged into for a while?
If so, you could well be on the verge of losing those messages.
If you use Yahoo Mail or AOL Mail (or both) you should know that the latest changes they’ve made to their Terms of Service (TOS) completely trashes your privacy.
Both of those services are now owned by Oath, the media division of Verizon.
Oath has merged their two TOSs into one and made some pretty disturbing changes in the process. [Read more…]
Yahoo Mail is the second most used email service on the web, and it’s also one of the oldest.
But if you use Yahoo Mail you’re probably painfully aware of all the troubles the service and its users have endured in recent times.
Those issues have prompted a lot of users to switch from Yahoo to a different email service.
I’ve received several emails of late asking me how to forward Yahoo Mail to another email account, so I thought it might be a good idea to just write a how-to post explaining the procedure. [Read more…]