Thanks for the heads-up

I am never ceased to be amazed how companies arrive at their decisions to cut services.

Here is a generic service that is standard on most email platforms, free of charge, yet yahoo wishes to charge for it. Why? Greed?

Trust_No1 said:

I am never ceased to be amazed how companies arrive at their decisions to cut services.

Here is a generic service that is standard on most email platforms, free of charge, yet yahoo wishes to charge for it. Why? Greed?

An opinion from a writer at Softpedia.


It's not difficult to figure out why Verizon took this decision. With the popularity of Yahoo Mail obviously declining, some users who just wanted to retain their Yahoo inboxes configured auto-forwarding rules to other accounts, so all emails that arrived on Yahoo Mail were automatically redirected to another email address.

It remains to be seen how many users will make the switch to the subscription services following this unexpected Verizon decision, but for now, I wouldn’t be surprised if another wave of users drop Yahoo Mail and switch to the many alternatives out there.

Yahoo Mail Is Removing an Essential Feature for Free Users

Not really Yahoo now though but Verizon who also have AOL Mail which according to the headers now goes through Yahoo so that will probably get the same treatment.

pericles said:

An opinion from a writer at Softpedia.


It's not difficult to figure out why Verizon took this decision. With the popularity of Yahoo Mail obviously declining, some users who just wanted to retain their Yahoo inboxes configured auto-forwarding rules to other accounts, so all emails that arrived on Yahoo Mail were automatically redirected to another email address.

It remains to be seen how many users will make the switch to the subscription services following this unexpected Verizon decision, but for now, I wouldn’t be surprised if another wave of users drop Yahoo Mail and switch to the many alternatives out there.

Yahoo Mail Is Removing an Essential Feature for Free Users

Thank you, makes sense, NOT!!

my main account has been Yahoo for years, though I have an Outlook account (yahoo forwarded). I have been lazy to switch, perhaps, just perhaps.....

Trust_No1 said:

Thank you, makes sense, NOT!!

my main account has been Yahoo for years, though I have an Outlook account (yahoo forwarded). I have been lazy to switch, perhaps, just perhaps.....

You should still be able to auto-forward mail to Yahoo, and as I read it auto-forwarding in Yahoo Mail will continue to be allowed if it's set to forward to another Yahoo account. The announcement specifically says it's auto-forwarding to 3rd-party email addresses that's being turned off.

I suspect Yahoo want to stop you auto-forwarding mail to another 3rd-party provider so you can read your Yahoo mail without seeing the ads in the Yahoo Mail webmail page. It's presumably the ads that make the free Yahoo Mail viable.

We regularly evaluate our products and services against current security standards and have decided to remove this feature to help ensure free Yahoo Mail accounts remain secure.

That, looks like a lie! Busted, for saying that it's for security reason(s).