Yahoo's new e-mail: Too slow

Good point -i thought it was my computers doing it - but yahoo has been loading very slowly.

I've had the address since 1996 - and I get hundreds of spam, excuse me, bulk mail opportunities a day. I wonder if it's time to retire the old yahoo account?

new address switching technologies make it easy for the people I want to find me.

52 seconds? That sounds pretty bad.

Takes me 6-7 seconds on IE and a tad more on FF (Firefox 1.5 is faster than 1.0). What are you using?

Try deleting the cache.

I have a 1.6 GHz, 512MB Ram and a cable connection. Nothing fancy.

Dave,
I'm using IE on a three-year-old laptop (don't know the numbers, but I'm guessing slower than yours). I already deleted the cache. It's a cable connection through WiFi. I just tried it again, at 6:30 a.m. eastern, and it took 20 seconds. I find it slow even when I'm on our brand new desktop, or at work.... Just walked downstairs to try it: 12 seconds.

Been having plenty of slowness with yahoo regardless of browser lately.

not only very slow at accessing webmail, but also mails take 30mins (at times) to arrive!

Not only is the new Yahoo! beta version of webmail too slow - attempts to provide constructive feedback to them prove futile because accesses to twiki.corp.yahoo.com (the webpage you are redirected to when you click Help -> SendFeedback from the email client) timeout. I have used Yahoo! email for a few years now so I am willing to cut them some slack. If responsiveness of the email servers doesnt improve soon though, I'm converting to gmail.
Hope Yahoo! is listening.

When they first released teh Beta, the feedback link worked. I sent them several items, none of which have been addressed. Recently, the ad server has gone to heck, holds up the entire system, and occasionally crashes Firefox. Sure wish I could provide feedback on THAT. It's free, and I guess you get what you pay for.

I agree, way too slow. Too slow to access and too slow to read mail.

I don't think the problem is the new Beta mail page, rather, all Yahoo mail is now creeping at a snails pace. I think the mail servers have been compromised by a worm that is yet undetected.

It's slow as molasses

For 3 weeks now my yahoo account (old account, not beta) has been extremely slow. Before this there was never an issue, even on dialup. (we're talking minutes to bring up the inbox) Tried deleting all caches, Firefox, using a diff. computer etc etc. It is still just plain slow. Can anyone at Yahoo shed some light on the problem? I will have to give up the account shortly - it is really just too much of an issue.

Same complaint - last few weeks have been terrible with Yahoo mail inbox - not sure if it is their ad server or something else. Hope Yahoo comes clean and posts a message explaining what is going wrong.

It is slow but nothing like 20s, it takes me about 6-7s to open it.

Yes. The yahoo mail(not new) is dead slow. Somebody is telling the slow by seconds. But my case is very worst. After i log in it is trying to show my home page. Then after 2~3 minute I am recieving "The page cannot be displayed". I don't know what secret in my yahoo!!!

Infact my connection is ADSL.

For the last 2 days I can't able log in. Now I am using YPOPs! to recieve my mails into my outlook express. But still i can't able to send mails.

Also I have problem with Yahoo Messenger. My friend sent me message. I can read her message. But She can't able to read my message. 1st time I was met het through Yahoo Messenger. But now we can't able chat.

But still I am having hope with yahoo. I don't like to give up my yahoo. Bcoz past 11 years i am using yahoo. I hope Yahoo will solve this problem ASAP. But this problem will continue for another 2~3 weeks, then i can't wait for my faverit yahoo. I may need to change to Google. Last year, one of my friend recomonded the google. but i did not considered. Bcoz Yahoo is my faverit. May be in future, i need to consider google.

I'm so frustrated with Yahoo I'm looking for a new email host. It takes 20-30 seconds to delete a message, open a message and too many spams. Any suggestions?

Indeed -- Yahoo's "new" mail interface won't even open for me in Firefox 1.5.0.6 -- EVERY time I try it (after all the usual clearing and wiping the slate clean in cache, history, cookies, etc.) it 'unexpectedly quit' and the Talkback feature kicks on to ask if I want to Close or Quit (which never works and I have to force-quit Firefox anyway). Complete pain in the butt -- Safari still uses the old mail interface, since Yahoo has yet to produce a 'new' one for that browser at all. They certainly are not as attentive to details like Google is, and their troubleshooting and testing for ALL user experiences is sorely lacking!

Yahoo beta mail is nice, and i like the new features over the old yahoo mail, but it's too slow to live with. For now, I'm using Safari with old yahoo mail instead of Firefox with Yahoo Beta until they can somehow increase the speed.

I have been having trouble loading yahoo mail pages in the past 3 days. It's not slow, it simply NOT LOADING at all !

Same here. I've noticed 4 out of 5 times Yahoo mail pages don't seem to be loading at all regardless of browser. For me the problems started when I upgraded to the latest Yahoo Messenger with Voice (version 8.0.0.716 -- module 8.0.0.1). After that messenger kept up chewing up processor cycles and hanging intermittently -- at times hanging the machine (no, I don't have viruses, trojans, etc. -- I've checked thoroughly and I have all the latest Windows updates). I like Yahoo. I've been with them from the very beginning. However, what is one to do when it just doesn't work? Jump ship and go to Google? I won't like it but it just may come to that.

The upgrade has been a disaster and needs to get fixed quickly if people are not going to turn away from Yahoo in droves.

Way too slow I have a very fast internet connection and have been forced to go back because of sluggish mail. Slow to open, preview, and just about everything. Good features but you got to speed it up!

I just opted out as well- wow. I'd forgotten how nice and fast the regular yahoo mail was. It's nice to be back using it. The beta mail didn't add any real functionality and the constant popups were ANNOYING! Good riddance and I hope it doesn't come back.

I have been using yahoo mail for the last 5 years but since early this year yahoo has been extremly slow!! At first I thought it was my ISP but after doing extensive research from my friends I discovered that it Yahoo itself was the culprit. Yahoo is taking ages to download the home page and worse still compose at times take even up to 10 minutes to open. Its really frustrating. Yahoo, please do something quick!!

I haven't been able to load Yahoo at all. I work via Yahoo, and it's VERY frustrating. I can get it on my phone, but then there's no way to go into my small business account with the address that's my business' domain name (only let's me see the one with the Yahoo domain name).

This is untenable.

Slow is one problem, but even worse, not being able to compose, forward, or reply to email at all.
This has happened 4 times. I contact their customer service & get a response that according to their findings, the problem is on my end & not theirs. And then suddenly, a day or 2 later, it works again.
look forward to (if lucky enough for it to happen) it working one more time so I can transfer to another provider FAST. This is the most unbelievable situation I've ever encountered and can't believe it's happening in this day and age..... Unbelievable and can never find an answer to the problem with Yahoo or any other research link!!!

i need a new mail address

Yahoo runs painfully slow! I’m pulling out my hair every day. 52 seconds is a good speed for me, often the pages dont load at all. If they can’t resolve their issues soon I’m moving to G-mail.

Ahhh heck this blog has been running for months. I think it’s time to just change everything over now. If they haven’t addressed this issue by now they aren’t going to.

I have been having a trouble loading a yahoo mail
pages for last 5 days.Its too slow.Its takes 25-30mins.why?Is there any way to solve my problem?

i beeing boot out of game pool for nothing your yahoo pool suck big time

I regret to have used the beta version. wasted too much time "waiting" for the messages to load. i've notified my contacts that i'm using another email address.

Yahoo email servers now taking longer than snail mail.
Email from friends on east coast take an average of one day to deliver -- both they and I are using yahoo email!
Scratching my head and wondering why Google is making all of that money and Yahoo is not ;-)
Well, after six plus years with Yahoo, Google servers speedily accept me with open arms ... come to Daddy ;-)

I am grateful for all the comments above. I have cleaned the disk and defragmented, wiped out all my inbox and sent box emails and still have the slowest mail I have ever known. I agree, its time to change. Tried to contact Yahoo, but to no avail.

I have the same complaint. Yahoo! Beta is way to slow for my taste, and I am a pretty patient person. I finally had to switch back to regular mode because I couldn't take the wait and the constant system crashes any longer. Even when I try to access Yahoo! Beta at work (where the computers are state-of-the-art and the Internet connection is very fast), the servers at Yahoo! take long.

In fact, I've been seeing over the months that Yahoo! Mail as a whole has been slow. Many of my messages that I send to my Yahoo account from the same account or from other accounts (e.g. Gmail) take a VERY long time to appear -- even up to a day! Yet, my Gmail account does not experience the same thing: the message is there, sitting in my inbox, in seconds.

I dunno, Yahoo! has to do something about its servers and speed or else the beta version is going to go downhill - and fast. Even its regular mail's speed needs a boost. No wonder Google is making more money...

Now and then,
the Gibbler

It seems the changes you are making are wrong...it gets worse rather than better...it used to be one of the best,,now I tell everyone it just gets worse, while the others are much better....better check out the situation...new people are not always the answer.....

It is driving us nuts...seems that yahoo mail hangs on the ad server...takes forever to go back and forth in the account and even to sign out...been going on now for months off and on...using dial-up...and the "new" mail is even worse as I can't seem to find a way to go directly to my inbox from login....grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

The new yahoo mail is too much javascript. Tons and tons of javascript. Making it unstable, SLOW and not browser friendly.

On my 56k modem, the ton of javascript was loading in a few minutes for each page load.

There are many if(ie) if(ff) if(other) inside so you can imagine compatibility issues and difficulties to maintain.

With Opera I had many problems.

But the main issue is slowness, it was so slow I switched back to old Yahoo mail (which major issue is NO UNICODE support alas)

Well - its Feb., 2007, and yahoo still hasn't resolved the problem. I think it is the banner ads they are running on the mail pages. I have had my address for over a decade, but this cannot go on. I say, every day, that I am quitting them - maybe tomorrow. I sure wouldn't buy yahoo stock, would you??? GRRRRRRRR

for weeks now, Yahoo mail has caused me to lose so much business. Customers call and when i have to search for their information, it takes 5 minutes to load a single page. Very unhappy! I am a paid member and it's the same for me!.

no its that yahoo has fewer servers its cuz yahoo servers are bein used 2 run crackers.. to crack yahoo rares

I'm having an awful time with my Yahoo account, and I don't remember making any changes! My husband's account is fine, and I'm very frustrated. I'll have to look at both account settings to see if there are differences.

Yahoo has major problems with it's email. I tried the new Beta, liked the format but way too slow to load therefore switched back. Over past two months have experienced problems with very slow login in regular Yahoo mail, sometimes on weekends it just won't load. I have a DSL connection so problem is with Yahoo's servers. Been with Yahoo almost eight years, but it's time to move on. If you have Yahoo stock my advice is it's time to sell.

For the last 5-6 months my Yahoo has been awful. It takes 20 minutes for "my photos" to load!!!! UGH! And it takes a while to read/delete mail. I have a cable modem (Comcast) (4-6 mbps) and at my job, they have the same (through WOW!)

Now it does run faster at my job, but I also work 3rd shift so maybe the servers are less congested then?? I have tried my msconfig to load just the simple devices, scanned for adware/spyware/viruses NUMEROUS times, cleaned out memory, cleaned out registry numerous times.

I have had my Yahoo account for YEARS and REALLY don't want to give it up. :( But I can't take it anymore!!!! :(

Sincerely,
Saying "Adieu" to Yahoo. :(

Yahoo mail -is so slow - its a complete joke.

Its not my pc or connection- and I have no other problems with any of my other email addresses.

gmail - takes about 4 seconds
hotmail: 10 seconds
yahoo: - it was 3 minutes yesterday - now I can't even even open or compose a message.

Yahoo get this sorted out!!

Yeah to all of this.
The most recent release has put me out to about 40 seconds to load without the preview and a minute some with......
I switched to yahoo about 7 years ago to ensure I had an ISP-independent e-mail address - now I'm thinking it may have been a waste of time! Yugh...........

Yeh - I have two yahoo account - one has a lot of emails in it and the other (test one) is empty.

It may be that these are managed by different servers/clusters or it may simply be a delay while it indexes/retrieves the email list... but for whatever reason the one with lots of emails stored has severe problems in both beta and original mode (worse in beta). Particularly today for some reason.
It is unusable - the office proxy times out the connection it takes so long

[sigh] I think I will be dumping my yahoo email in favour of another provider (Gmail?) - shame tho cos I've had it for getting on for 9 or 10 years! Can't comnplain too much as I use the free service, but it seems like Yahoo have shot themselves in the foot!

wats happenin with yahoo pool i just get blank screen then says trying to log on to server then dosent

TWO YEARS LATER AND IT'S STILL SLOW

Could the slow e-mail logging have anything to do with all of the advertisements that are logged in prior to the logging in of the e-mail?
Why do we have to continue to see all of the flashing, bright ads that we didn't ask for, in the first place?

my yahoo messanger is very slow it takes 2 -3 min to start pls help me in finding a solution to the problem.

Having just moved from dial-up to broadband,I'm very disappointed to find that Yahoo mail (with Firefox browser) is almost as slow as it was before. There appears to be a huge delay in waiting for the adverts to load up.
I see that this thread started two years ago! Are Yahoo totally incommunicado?

Also have inbox: franbo52247@yahoo.com

I Forward e-mail from webtv.net to yahoo.com. Screen shows "Sending message" and�shows mailbox closing its door.

NOTHING gets to yahoo. Nor is the courtesy of any type of notification extended to me by yahoo.

And I can't find a Complaint add for yahoo!

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Have forwarded similar attachments to users at other domains successfully.

Thanks for letting me vent.

this is really annoying...Ive always used yahoo...but this new yahoo is sllooww as a snail

I have used Yahoo for years and years...while I noticed the slowdowns in 2005, the biggest slow down was in October of 2006. This was when they started letting advertisers like Walt Disney and others put up adds with images flying across the screen. Until those ads were served you were basically held prisoner and could not do anything, just hung up and have a hard time doing much of anything else.

AOL slowed down with A0.bluetooth, 207.net and others.

That was enough for me, how many of us can be ‘out of touch’ with our customers? I made the decision right there and than to get an alternative email account, my choice was Google’s Gmail (even though there are privacy issues as they keep everything forever). Both Netscape and Hotmail are alternatives and maybe I should give them another shot as I switched away from them over 8 years ago as they were too slow. I even used CompuServe and AOL back in the day (10 – 15 or more years ago).

Let that be a lesson to you Yahoo, I switched away from CompuServe, Netscape and Hotmail and a decade later I have NOT given them a second chance! If you don’t fix this, you are next on my ‘bad’ email list!

Watch your browser for the URLs loading when you load a page, any page, to see what is causing your delay. It's usually the ads and their associated cookies that the advertisers all want to put on your computer and use. This works when opening Yahoo mail too.

Suggestions:
1) Make note of the URLs the advertisers use to serve up their ads
2) Block them and their cookies from within your browser's security / privacy sections.
3) Set your browser's cookie security to the 'highest' or next to the 'highest' so that you can 'allow' or 'deny' every cookie. If you paid attention in #1 above, you know which cookies to block / deny.
4) Scan your computer with adware removal software weekly to remove the advertiser's cookies, they always sneak back on your computer (Ad-Aware SE works great).
5) Prevent your Yahoo! Messenger from automatically loading each time you boot your computer as they are ruining their messaging service along with their email service. (On a Windows desktop hold down ALT CTRL and DELETE at the same time and select the “Task List”; When you see ypager or if you miss it, you will see something like “ymsgr_tray.exe” in the process list, just end it when you can see it if you are NOT planning on chatting at that time. You can always manually start Yahoo Messenger up when you want to chat, but no sense in letting it slow you down if you are just checking mail or searching for stuff.
6) Never ‘automatically’ upgrade any browser, chat or other software without knowing what it will do to you, your PC and your ability to use the internet. I still get messages to update my messenger every time I log on to Yahoo Messenger, not going to do it! (Remember they don’t care how ‘old’ your PC is or how little memory is in it when they attempt to force you to upgrade). If you have a fast PC, no biggie (and lots of memory) but many of us do not.

As for the cookies always DENY the advertiser's cookies as all they do is 'slow' down your internet surfing.

If you think about it, they should PAY YOU for your private and personal information anyway! So DENY them!

I would only recommend not denying them when the use ad serving methods that are faster then they use today! All of today’s methods are slow as they are trying to gather more and more information about you, so they want to set more and more cookies. I usually deny 3 – 6 cookies at most business sites when I am reading the news…a bit of overkill if you ask me.

That’s my two cents.

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hello!

i have a problem with my yahoo mail. i cann'open my e mail to check it. i can open the yahoo, but not my e mail.
can you pls tell me what is the problem?

thanks a lot
Majlinda

I am also having difficulty opening my mail. Very slow or won't connect. I need my mail to be working properly and in a reasonable amount of time. Ugh!

Yahoo mail and the rest of Yahoo is starting to suck real bad these days. I can't believe how how slow it is. Also I cant even send the message to Yahoo because after filling out the form and hitting send you get a web site not found. Also the closed a discussion of this on there web site. I guess we can expect Yahoo to start charging for email. Man this sucks.

I made a final test - I sent the same mail to yahoo and also to gmail. I got mail in gmail in 10 seconds, on yahoo I am waiting more than half an hour now...so it is decided..gmail wins..finaly..

my mail is too slow in booting please i need your help now, thanks.

I agree to that.the yahoo mails realy opening to slow it realy take time. Hope yahoo will solve this annoying problem. as soon as possible.

It is way to slow. Takes a 2-3 min to open and 1-2 min to go DELETE or move your email from Inbox to another folder. Totally unacceptable.

Hopefully Yahoo is listening.

LK

I have solution - bring back your old/classic email by going via Options - I've changed and it's back to "NORMAL"

The new version of yahoo mail stinks. It takes entirely too long to load.

When it gets ridiculous, I open multiple windows to email, and one will get through while others wait...forever.

Pretty stupid solution to a Yahoo problem.

This is what I think. Everything is working, just can't send mssgs as of a week ago. WHen I compose mssg, then click send,I get a blank screen, literally. The mssg does NOT go. This happened a year or so ago, AFTER I received an email from a certain person. Same thing now with almost brand new yahoo emailaddress (closed other as i never figured out how to fix it). any ideas if this could be true? any fix?

Whatever is happening to Jon is happening to me as well. I just can't compose or reply to my yahoo mails. I tried scanning for virius and cleaning but my system came up clean. Could it be that my 56k dial up is too slow? But I was sending fine just a week ago. Anyone has ideas?

Emails sent using Yahoo's service occasionally take 7 or more to reach me. I've had the sender test using other services (e.g. Gmail) at the same time and the Gmail message is received instantly.

Although I have switched to Google mail, whenever I don't receive a promised email, the first question I ask is whether the sender uses Yahoo mail.

Is this still the beta version? The new version totally stinks and I will just stick with classic which has been fine. How in the hell can yahoo be blowing chips like this for so long! I see this thread goes back to the end of 2005 with the same complaints.

Yahoo mail stinks! I'm thinking about switching to another email program. I operate a business and have been unable to get to my customers emails quickly, because either the servers are down or it kicks me out and have to sign in all over again.
I've also noticed that the email messages take for ever to come to my inbox. Anyone else having the same problem. If it continues, I'll have to switch. Esp since I am paying a monthly service. This is ridiculous!!!

Ridiculously slow. It sometimes crashes my IE, closing every other window open. I have had complaints that my email does not get to someone for a couple of days. I might as well use snail mail. I would say...well..its free...but I use SWBell through yahoo. I pay for it. Guess I will start using my outlook. I just liked Yahoo so much better and can access it everywhere. *big sigh*

When the companies only have "Bottom Dollar" like MS and other big guys, the consumer is always screwed.
I guess they will make more money in the end when their cheap crap is is outsourced.
Sounds to me like American Companies worship the bottom dollar so much we are outsourcing our own livelihoods.
Where will they be when we have no money to support them?Bye ms-yahoo.
BTW Bill GATES Pays just over minimum ways to his programmers. Why do you think ms sucks so badly. You get what you pay for

I tried to open Yahoo Mail and its very slow. after singing on. But tried to open it on my laptop and it took me only 5-6 sec. Is there any problem that causing it. I was thinking i had swap the memory or reformat the PC. Pls. Help

Looks like this "slowness" problem is 3yrs old and no end in sight. There is no sign that yahoo is trying to fix it other than the msg that they display "Yahoo mail is taking extra long to load, try switching to yahoo classic mail"

Yes some of the new features are nice but the speed trade of is NOT worth it.

I've moved back to using Classic Ymail. YAHOO PLZ DO SOMETHING!

I have used New Yahoo mail since it was Beta, and never had problems. Since A few weeks ago, I was getting the "Mail appears to be taking longer to load than usual..." message, but the "etmprary glicth" seems to be a "permanent glicth". First I tink that was mi IE 7.0, so I tried to login in another machine with IE 6.0 with same result. Now I'am using Firefox 2.0 and New Yahoo mail works fine... I think the problem is related with IE instead Yahoo.

Hope This Helps

Regards,

Valdo Escobar
Lima - Perú

I've been having the recent slowness too and noticed that it worked well on Firefox. Bummer. Actually, come to think of it, my myspace page doesn't load right either. Sometimes my main menu page only loads the advertisement. If I delete temp internet files sometimes it comes right up...like as soon as I click the "ok" to delete the files...but it might be coincidental timing...

Yahoo has lots of potential if they could learn to understand. We do not have the time to either waste or spare to reach the time it takes. Clearly, they know exactly what is wrong and have deliberately slowed us down to walking speed. it earns first place for being slow if that is what you want. Unhelpful comes better as there is no help worthwhile so, if you ever get it right we might return to have a look. In the sad meantime, Good Luck to Bill in Microsoft giving up on Hotmail to take on worse from Yahoo. I can never should this Yahoo again. Not my cup of tea at the present speed. Ken

It's weird, 2 days ago i saw yahoo had a new version of mail, so i clicked on it...it was SLOW. So i went back to classic mail and now every time I log on it takes forever to get to my inbox, send a mesg etc. Basically anything I do within mail is now slow. So, I logged on with my wifes account and it opens just fine, everytime. But we have not tried the newer mail version with her account...When i switch back to my account, same results...slow. I empty the cash, temp internet folder, etc...I'm using a new Imac 24", does anybody have any suggestions?

What Ken said. right on.

I have yahoo.com and my sis has g-mail. I can't get her E-mail but she can get mine. Why? Is there something that I am doing wrong? Someone told me that I had blocked her off. I have never done that. I can't unblock it. I will try that if you will show me how.

Yeah, I finally gave up on Yahoo Mail after years of self-abuse by sticking with it... Here's my story (from my blog)

Unsolicited email has got to be one of the biggest time-wasters in our known universe. Over the years, my personal Yahoo account had become under siege from just about every attack vector known to spammers.

What’s more, like a frog in boiling water who doesn’t notice the temperature slowly rising until it’s too late, I had become accustomed to my daily (and sometimes hourly) task of fighting this little private SPAM war going on in my email inbox and spam folder. Worse yet, Yahoo Mail’s constant freezing up, failing to respond and forcing me to log in over and over again was crippling my productivity (and my attitude at times, and I didn’t even realize it).

The issue had become so acute, I was getting many hundreds of these spam emails a day - often times dozens per hour. And I had actually become addicted to fighting this battle! (not realizing it fully). Combined with the slow and unpredictable Yahoo Mail service, my email had become a black hole for time - sucking away at my productivity at every turn…

Fortunately for me, last week Yahoo Mail became so slow and annoying (requiring me to log in again after I sent each email for like 30 minutes), I decided enough was enough. I was sick and tired of having my precious time wasted day after day - with Yahoo’s horrible web email client and service that was so slow and unreliable… well, as it turns out, that’s the straw that finally broke SPAM’s back! (Thank You Yahoo!)

So, out of sheer frustration with horrible email service by Yahoo Mail, I decided to finally take the leap - and switched over to GMAIL. Wow!! What a difference.

No wonder Google’s dominating this market. They have the best product available (both for search and personal email). It only took a little time learning that “Label” means “Folder” to get over the initial hurdle and I was well on my way…

I’d resisted GMAIL for years, even though everyone else in my family had abandoned Yahoo long ago. I have so much stuff archived in my Yahoo Mail folders, that I just couldn’t bring myself to make the switch. Turns out, that barrier was more in my head than anything (I can still go back to Yahoo and search through my folders, in the rare cases where I need to find something). Over time, this will become less and less an issue.

Back to the SPAM battle… So, I quickly noticed that GMAIL’s SPAM filter is much more accurate than Yahoo’s, but still not perfect. I was still getting a few dozen SPAM emails a day coming through the filters (and felt I had to look through the bulk folder in case something legitimate fell in there, which happens all the time with Yahoo Mail). To my surprise, I rarely found a legitimate email in the GMAIL SPAM folder (nicely done Google).

Still, due to my various Internet businesses and the many hundreds of emails I get per day, I was left with a residue of SPAM, even in GMAIL. Then, something fortuitous happened…

I sent a broadcast mailing to my OPT-IN list of newsletter subscribers (about 25,000 subscribers total). One of them bounced an email right back to me… it was SpamArrest, prompting me to enter in the CAPTCHA code (that little string of characters proving you’re human).

Then the light bulb went off! I could’ve stopped this whole SPAM problem a long time ago, if I had just taken a few minutes to seriously learn about and try out SpamArrest - an ingenious solution to the SPAM problem (I wish I’d thought of it - it’s an elegant, ingenious tool).

Since I still have so many emails flowing into my Yahoo mail account, and I don’t want the same issue cropping up in my new, pristine GMAIL account, I finally found the solution…

So now, instead of just simply forwarding my Yahoo Mail account directly to GMAIL, I’m using SpamArrest as my SPAM filter intermediary. It works like this…

All my original public email arrives at the Yahoo account (rick_braddy@yahoo.com) - notice I’m not afraid to post it here for all to see…including the spammers

I have registered this darned Yahoo email address with so many hundreds of places since I first opened my account (so long ago I’ve forgotten when I opened my Yahoo Mail account - like a lot of people on AOL and HOTMAIL, I’ll bet), I have no idea where all this email address is even used anymore. But it doesn’t matter…

Every 2 minutes, SpamArrest now wakes up and reaches into my Yahoo Mail account via the POP3 email gateway, pulling down all new incoming emails that have recently arrived in my Yahoo Mail account.

First, SpamArrest checks the sender of each incoming email to see if they are on my pre-approved list. If the email sender is on the approved list, SpamArrest simply forwards the email to my GMAIL account (where it gets further scrutinized as potential SPAM - a job GMAIL is very well-suited to handle).

If the email sender is unknown (not approved), then SpamArrest automatically replies to the sender’s email asking them to verify they are human (you must enter the text you see on the screen to prove you’re a human and not a SPAM-bot). This is where 99% of the SPAM will get stopped in its tracks.

You see, spammers are a lot like cockroaches. When the light comes on, they scatter, looking for a place to hide. The one thing you can absolutely count on spammers to do is constantly change their From email address (so they don’t get caught, and so their latest spam email “creative” has a better chance of getting through the existing network-based SPAM filtration gauntlet). Anyway, even if a spammer could somehow reply to the “challenge” email sent by SpamArrest, it wouldn’t matter because they won’t be using that same email address ever again…

All remaining emails from unknown senders (mostly spammers), remain locked up in SpamArrest’s “holding cell” (the Unverified folder), where they sit for up to 7 days (after which they’re deleted). I can still periodically have a look in this folder - to satisfy my SPAM inspection habit and curiosity, I suppose

So far, I have received ZERO new SPAM emails into my GMAIL account - they’re being stopped in their tracks by SpamArrest. And I intend to keep it that way…

Some of the reviews I’ve read about SpamArrest were perplexing. People claimed that you could lose important emails because people might not be willing to enter the CAPTCHA code to ensure your email gets through…

Let me tell you something. If I send an email that matters to someone and they’re protecting themselves against SPAM, I will take a few seconds to enter the one-time code so I can communicate with the person; otherwise, my email wasn’t very important to begin with. It’s only $4.95 per month for SpamArrest - a pittance compared to the value of most anyone’s time these days… (how much of your time are you forking over to spammers - what’s it worth to you to be 99% SPAM-FREE?)

Moreoever, as a SpamArrest user, I can now simply go inspect the Unverified folder once a week (or once a day if you’re still in SPAM fighting withdrawal, like me) to ensure that nothing important ever gets lost.

I have to say, SPAM free email feels GREAT!! And SPAM-free email delivered to GMAIL is even better!!

And to be perfectly honest, it FEELS GOOD to win vs. the spammers!

The combination of using a PRODUCTIVE email system (GMAIL) along with SpamArrest has probably given me back one half to one full day per week of productivity - enough time I can now spend more of it doing fun, productive work again - like BLOGGING or Twitter!!! (what a concept)

When you add up the time wasted on dealing with SPAM, combined with the distractions from one’s ability to focus on productive tasks that it creates, it’s truly an amazing productivity gain.

I sure wish I’d found this dynamite combination earlier. Now if my GMAIL account eventually becomes overrun somehow, I know exactly what to do (open a new GMAIL account and filter the old one through SpamArrest!)

Thank You GMAIL and SpamArrest! You’ve given me a significant percentage of my life back that had been wasting away to non-productivity.

A SPAM-FREE life is the good life.

Rick

P.S. Here’s a tip Google. Go buy SpamArrest and make it FREE! (it’s worth asking )

P.P.S. Please share this solution with as many people as you can. We really need to gang up on these spammers and drive their response rates as close to zero as humanly possible.

Seem everyone has the same problem with Yahoo being dreadfully slow. No question it has to be Yahoo and not the individual computers or systems.

Like so many others I'm simply sick of it. Had a Yahoo account since the beginning, always the ole standby no matter where lived or what system. Will try switching back to the traditional Yahoo Mail. If doesn't improve will use my Hot mail account, or G-mail account until Yahoo gets the messages and fixes the problem.

Glad everyone took the time to address this problem alleviating any problems we may perceive in our personal systems.

Thanks

Good Morning

Kindly when I sign out it says the page cannot be displayed, please can you help to sign out and sign out completely.

It is very slow too.
Thank you
Regards
Florence

I continue to experience slowness when composing Yahoo mail messages - whether in classic or new...I thought was my computer but have no problems with speed of key response when typing this or anything via internet - it is only when logged into my yahoo email when I compose new, reply or forwarded message text. I've cleared cache; temp files; history., nothing seems to work. any ideas? thank you!!

If you look at the bottom left whilst you sit there like a mug waiting for the connection you can clearly see that other things are going on with the connection. [without your consent] You are all routed through ads and other corporate recording programmes so that the last thing in line is your [bloody] E mail connection. I have just changed my E mail to two other new E mail servers simply because it is costing me at least an hour a day in wasted time AND I have a broadband connection which is indisputably now a complete waste of money and I cannot afford to be a stooge for Yahoo's advertising deals anymore. Get stuffed Yahoo says I.

You guys are lucky you can even get into Yahoo Mail. It will not even open for me ... on the rare occasion it does open there is a message saying it cannot load and do I want to switch to Classic which I am already on. I have tried everything - opting out, clearing cache etc. My internet connection is fine - the only way I can sometimes get Yahoo is via Log Me In to my office server and opening it from there. THis is absolutely ridiculous - I really do not want to change servers because of the hassle of informing those who know my email address and those who don't.

if any one sent me imp message which is very argent but iam getting that e-mail after 4-5 hours iam asking why this yahoomail is too slow ohhhhhhhhhhhh.

I have the same of all of the above statements , slow send, sometimes loss of data when saving a draft due to the slowness. (no virus/pc or mac/ all works fine except yahoo e-mails) broadband etc.

i just wonder why yahoo does not post any information to its customers especially when we are giving their advertisers our data since on the lower left hand side you see where it is being routed , after a letter to yahoo and checking with my server the problem still points to yahoo.

so my guess is it's either from the source or the advertising servers are slowing things down but like all of us in the same situation , to change e-mail yet again and informing everybody is just as bad plus the lost time involved .

I can't believe it's this bad especially at the peak of deadlines.

cheers! everybody , to better e-mail times

Well - further to my earlier comment, I have taken the plunge and switched to gmail and it is FANTASTIC inasmuch as it works - it receives emails quickly.

It didn't actually take that long to notify people either.

I don't like gmail format at all - it is awful and I much prefer Yahoo but, so far, absolutely no problems with it.

Yippee!

I just now googled this topic as my Yahoo mail crawls! I'm still on the orginal version as I could not stand all the adds and crap that has come along with newer versions.

Thinking of switching to gmail and forwarding all my mail there, any tips?

thanks
dave

Mail is so slow I could deliver it in person. I've sent mail to people (my sons) and it took over an hour to get delivered. With other mail it has cost me dearly. Maybe it is time to be bought out and have some new blood in the company

Yahoo email NEVER WORKS ! FF, IE, doesn't matter, it takes 30 seconds to load up a page. it's pathetic.

Ok... now my mail is super slow. Yahoo worked perfect before the upgrade. This type of crap is gonna cost Yahoo its existence.

Yahoo email service is so frustrating,
they should really work on this problem as soon as possible because sometimes there are important messages and because of their incapability to provide good service it usually received late.

The Yahoo mail speed has been frustratingly slow recently and I kept wondering if it was my computer. However, I just realized that many persons have been experiencing the same problem for quite sometime..I think it's time for me to explore another option.

Yahoo mail is sooo slow the past few days! I've been waiting for some important email and of course now it's taking forever to receive. I even emailed myself from my hotmail account as a test and didn't get the email until over an hour later! That is totally unacceptable.

Yahoo is officially pathetic and I am going to set up a new account with AOL, Hotmail or MSN because this has gotten ridiculous and Yahoo knows this and doesn't even seem to care. Sad...very sad.

Yahoo, especially Classic email, has become very slow. Switching to the New Yahoo Mail sends my 2ghz processor machine with 2gb RAM right to 100 percent cpu and locks up computer. I have to reboot, log in to mail and immediatley choose the link to switch back to Classic Mail before it hangs again.

All I can say to everything is DITTO. I don't know what's going with yahoo right now but it is terribly inconvient and frustrating. Is it just me or is it IMPOSSIBLE to click "check all" to delete ur mail now? I can't do anything on the new had to go back to classis and it is slower than my grandmother's driving. I really hate it now. Looking into some other options.

WHAT IS GOING ON? I CANNOT ACCESS MY FOLDERS OR EVEN COMPOSE A NEW MESSAGE. IT SAYS "LOADING" AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE AND NOTHING HAPPENS . . . DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO FIX THIS?

cache has nothing to do with their problem. click on any other site, and it appears in a flash. yahoo mail drags on forever. it used to be great, but now it totally sucks. this is just another example of the "new" way of doing things. the customer comes last.

I'm surprised to see so few blogs talking about this. In our family and business we will finally have to switch to gmail because of the Yahoo slow down. I think Yahoo is a superior email service but if it takes this long to load each and every time then we must do away with it.
it makes our day very inneficient

Why is Yahoo taking so darn long to load? Their site, Yahoo.com, my Yahoo email.....I am dying of old age, turning gray and dusty whilst waiting...

Yahoo mail is really pissing me off! Loading..............

yahoo apparently shut my e-mail down for no apparent reason. i have a son in the gulf and now i can't access my e-mail. so i can't even recieve a reply

i dont know if im having the same prob as all of u cuz since the first issues on this page r from nov 21 of 2005. but my issues with yahoo mail are the same. the only thing it does right is log me in. it wont let me check my messages at all...it sits there for hours(i dont) telling me 'loading...'. i used to be able to check my mail, but it wouldnt let me reply or compose. so i am totally pissed off. i am switching to something else before i miss any important emails.

Also having a ton of problems with yahoo mail loading. I'm a few days away from switching to google mail. Sign in is fast but loading of emails takes 8 or more seconds. this is unacceptable.

Ever since I noticed that little blue "Loading" box at the top center of my browser, Yahoo has been slow.

Any way to get rid of the thing?

steve baker

it depends on which server ur data is stored.If u have created account in US and trying to access from India obviously it will take long time.

why is my e mail so slow I know its not my computor geneoman61@yahoo.com

They started using Flash ads and it loads down internet explorer to the point were yahoo email is almost useless at times. I found turning off Flash in the browser fixed my slowness. Even with Flash on Firefox was much faster then internet explorer with Flash.

With Flash off, Yahoo reverts it's ads to simple HTML and pictures. IE: no Flash players ads running and using your CPU and/or network bandwidth.

-Rod

I'd kill for 8 second loads....
My problems too seem to have developed recently since Yahoo's newest "upgrade." Just leave it alone!
Help, how do I turn off the Flash??

Firefox doesn't help. I just downloaded it and tried logging into my yahoo account... same issue...

I'm glad I found this post - and the new comments coming in! I thought I was the only one - went on scanning my computer for ad-wares, spywares and all the rest. Then I realise it is not really MY problem. Disappointment is the only word which can describe my feelings about Yahoo mail. It used to be so good. I agree with the comment above - things have drastically gone worse after the new 'loading' status is at the top. Sometimes it takes forever to login, can't login, relogin (but still can't), when you're in there, you can't click on the inbox, and when you can, it takes forever for any mail to open up, etc.

By the way I'm using the classic version.

I agree with the many who do not like the new upgraded Yahoo, too slow (with the LOADING sign) and also the change in getting the address added to one I'm sending, I liked the comma,which brought up the address, now I have to click on one of the names on the list, taking more time..

It doesn't help completely but I switched mine to classic and it is working better than it was before.

What happens to yahoo. The dominos games are very slow since 5 month ago. Why yahoo doesnt care? What happen to yahoo? Can some one tell them to respond and help us. Looks that the do this in puerpose. The dont really care.....Why?

For the first time in ten years, I could not even OPEN a new letter to compose an email in Yahoo's new inflated pig.

I'm convinced this is more to do with Windows and my PC at home than anything else, because I'm using Yahoo! Mail Classic and it's fine if I access it from my home PC under Ubuntu Linux. It's also fine when I access it under Windows from work.

My specific problem is that my (Windows) PC won't resolve 's.yimg.com'. I also get problems on Play.com and ign.com.

This must've been something that changed recently, but I can't find anything blocking it.

Any thoughts?

Well in a way I am relieved. It is not my computer - just reformatted - its Yahoo. how about 2 full min to delete one message! The message list jumping up and down - and - when I can open a message - takes a while to scroll down to read it.

Yes, this Loading blue square on top of the page is very annoying!! Slowing down everything in yahoo....

I am on an iMac and it runs painfully slow. It seems to run faster at home or even on another computer. I'd say it is a Windows issue.

I don't think it is Yahoo. I just installed Google's Chrome and it is lightning fast. I went back to IE and it is dog slow, even with the temp files deleted. The rest of IE seems to run okay, so there is something wrong with the combination of IE and Yahoo mail. I think.

We're talking about different problems, then. Mine is to do with sign-in only, and relates to the fact that 's.yimg.com' doesn't resolve. Once I've logged in - regardless of browser - it's perfectly fast for me (I use Yahoo! Mail Classic interface).

It doesn't happen under Ubuntu Linux on the same machine. :o/

At last I knew that my PC is not really the problem in loading mail from yahoo. It's really so slow nowadays and most of the time I am having a hard time in sending mails to some private companies that's why I was force to open a g- mail account that really load so fast and the viewing of any attached documents is very satisfactory.
I hope yahoo will do some thing about this present situations we are experiencing especially in YM.

I'm getting a similar problem, Yahoo mail has become very slow to load and I'm getting a message while it loads, saying that windows virtual memory is low.

My Yahoo email is very slow. Do not not why. Sometimes it takes too long and it times out or it gives it an error 999
It is frustrating!

I have spent hours with Yahoo techs talking about this problem. Suggestions they made only made Yahoo work worse otherwise. I would have to click on icons 2 and 3 times. The screen would go pail and hang. Typing would stop in the middle of words. I found the solution on my own and am totally convinced. Go into Yahoo mail privacy policy and they give you an option to opt out of "interest matched advertising". The delay was their monitoring your activity. I don't know if they are stupid or just didn't want to tell me.

Exact steps to speed up Yahoo Mail
1. From e-mail screen click account info
2. Under resources click privacy policy
3. Click "Yahoo privacy"
4. Under "Opt out" click "Opt out of interest matching:.
Hangs, having to repeat icon choices, pale screens, hung screens, and hangs while typing e-mails will be cured!

Ken,
Thanks for the steps. I think it worked.

However, I couldn't find the "resources" link or tab after getting the account info screen.

Ended up doing a search in Yahoo Answers for "opt out Yahoo privacy" and quickly found a link to a page where I saw a big orange "OPT OUT" button. (I was already logged into Yahoo.)

That procedure doesn't do anything here. It's the same.
I pay for this crap too and am frustrated as heck as this is part of my business. The new mantra in the US should be, anything we can fk up, we do fk up.

Running yahoo mail on Firefix and it's muh improved.

Give it a try.

That's what happens when you do business with the devil. MS.
And, then they'll be wondering why they went out businees.

I had SBCGLOBAL for many years and I started getting problems of loading, forwarding, opening, new e-mail, etc.
I created a yahoo account and it is such a NIGHTMARE!!!
It is hundred times worse than sbcglobal. I cannot even view the e-mail. I actually constantly clear my cache. so that is not the issue.
I run IE8 and I have also tried FF. all the same. Click on "new e-mail" more than 30 times until it opens up. It often does this. I have checked this from different computers, different networks, etc and it is still the same.

The problem is that I just changed my e-mail and it is not very easy to switch again to gmail.

very disappointed because I liked Yahool folders.

To Follow Ken (above) I went ahead and opted out. Here are the steps to find it easily:

1- Log in to your e-mail
2- under your name, you will see a drop down. click on it and you will see "account info"
3- sign in again when prompted
4- Account Info. page opens up.
5- Go at the very bottom of the page and you will see "privacy policy" in purple, very small fonts.
6- click on it and it will guide you to the orange box to opt out.