Automatic forwarding in free Yahoo Mail to be discontinued

Details and date have changed, first post update.

Yahoo has gone from being a decent system to a hideous ad driven site -- I used to use its excellent built in tools to generate all sorts of Stock market reports --it had a very good free financial API.

Since its takeover I don't bother with it at all -- another one of those sites that surely deserve to just die away.

If you want any sort of reliable Mail system with auto forwarding or whatever --just sign up to any domain hosting service -- some are incredibly cheap if you don't use them for a lot of e-commerce etc and all have at least 2 free mail boxes and auto forwarding.

That way you can get an email address with your unique name and domain which works anywhere you can connect to the internet and supports any email client you can think of -- much better than any slowish webmail (usually these are riddled with ads as well) service and no probs setting up outlook 2019/365 or whatever email client you want.

Most ISP's these days in any case usually prohibit the sending of emails through their servers when you logon to another internet service say in an Internet cafe or whatever even if receive mail works. They usually provide again some hideous slowish webmail (often ad riddled) service for use in those situations.

I have yet to see a decent GUI of any webmail service -- for me those things like OUTLOOK / THUNDERBIRD or even KMAIL (Linux KDE mail) are just fine.

Some are also FREE but there might be a limit on number of emails or domain name might be restricted too. For a few USD / EUR etc just go for a hosting domain service and have done with it even if you only use it for email.

Cheers
jimbo

Barman58 said:

I use GMX and Gmail, without any issues at all All mail from "new" addresses goes initially to GMX, (via their excellent Spam/Malware filters), and is then automatically picked up by Gmail and processed through it's own Spam/Malware filters.

When I access my mail through gmail, on my systems, (fixed or Mobil Devices), everything is checked by Bitdefender (Pro) so is "clean".

Not going to dwell on it but I see no Advertising whatsoever , apart from the inevitable promotional content inside the Mail itself, which I just totally ignore, unless it is actually interesting to me - Yes advertising can be useful. I have on occasion been led to purchase software or hardware, which I have initially seen as "Spam" in an email, of course I did full diligence on the item before purchase

GMX / GMAIL are also fine for those that want to use those.

I think the initial OP's problem was with yahoo though - and that is / has definitely gone.

There's all sorts of sensible answers -- that's what's great about this Forum - many times I've seen loads of good alternative answers to problems -- !!!! Knowledge is always useful !!! -- even today in some futuristic science fiction films with loads of technology sometimes people are rescued via the simple expedient of Morse Code !!!!!!!!

Cheers
jimbo

Hi,
Yeah logged into an old at&t account last week which yes is yahoo
What a sad joke it is
Didn't Verizon buy the wretched company if so not sure why they didn't dump the yahoo name and existing format/.... and make new.
Nothing but silly videos auto loading in your face wasn't there long

is there a free alternative to the forwarding yahoo mail problem? cause I haven't been able to find one yet, [I mean I just set up the g-mail import account thing, but that apparently only does it for 30 days, so if it works id have to re-do it ever 30 days, and also a quick google on extending that I found a answers forum from 10 years ago saying it didn't actually forward for most yahoo mail users....] so I turn to you, because this forum has never disappointed me once! Thank you in advance!

They added a new pricing Tier...for $1 a month you keep the email forwarding.