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Yahoo makes it difficult to leave its service by disabling email forwarding

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Re: Yahoo makes it difficult to leave its service by disabling email forwarding

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If all you want is the email address, you can simply transfer your domain to Google Domains and use their free GMail integration. That'll save you $48/year assuming you don't value any of the other paid features in Google Apps.

I'm using an obscure country TLD, there's only one provider for the TLD.

If you can manage DNS yourself, you can set MX to Google or another provider.

Re: Yahoo makes it difficult to leave its service by disabling email forwarding

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If all you want is the email address, you can simply transfer your domain to Google Domains and use their free GMail integration. That'll save you $48/year assuming you don't value any of the other paid features in Google Apps.

I'd be afraid of Google's control over my domain name registration. Even if they don't do anything malicious, their "wall of silence" with respect to support leaves me very apprehensive. (Some people say it's different for paid-product support, but I don't know whether this includes $12/year domain name registration -- or will so in future.)

You can keep registration at your preferred provider, and set DNS for MX to Google, and there you go.

Re: Yahoo makes it difficult to leave its service by disabling email forwarding

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post #20

We had a few customers complain to us that they couldn't forward customer support messages from Yahoo to Reamaze. Now we know why. Frankly, a very un-customer move by Yahoo.

Yeah I cant believe Yahoo would disable forwarding. People use it for other stuff, not because they want to move to another service.

This is going to make people want to move off Yahoo even more

Re: Yahoo makes it difficult to leave its service by disabling email forwarding

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This is why you should use your own email domain so you can just shuffle it around providers as needed.

For most providers, using your own domain is a paid feature.

Amazing. To get what you want you have to spend money!

Re: Yahoo makes it difficult to leave its service by disabling email forwarding

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Just be careful about "deleting" your Yahoo account.

> Register a previously used ID

> A deleted Yahoo account ID may become available for future use, and you’re welcome to try to register it. However, Yahoo can't specify how long until a deleted ID may become available, and we can't guarantee that it will become available.

https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN3060.html

And make sure it doesn't get removed for inactivity:

> If you rarely use your account, it will go into an inactive state and then be deleted. You can prevent this by signing in to your account using any device at least once every 12 months.

Re: Yahoo makes it difficult to leave its service by disabling email forwarding

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Just be careful about "deleting" your Yahoo account. > Register a previously used ID > A deleted Yahoo account ID may become available for future use, and you’re welcome to try to register it. However, Yahoo can't specify how long until a deleted ID may become available, and we can't guarantee that it will become available. https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN3060.html And make sure it doesn't get removed for inactivity: >…

I came here to say this. You probably don't have old, forgotten accounts laying around with your Yahoo email address tied to them, but if you do, Yahoo reserves the right to hand over your password reset abilities to the next person who wants your username.

DON'T DELETE YOUR YAHOO ACCOUNT. Purge it of all content, sure, but flat-out deleting it is very risky.

Re: Yahoo makes it difficult to leave its service by disabling email forwarding

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm using an obscure country TLD, there's only one provider for the TLD.

If you can manage DNS yourself, you can set MX to Google or another provider.

Well yes, but you can't just expect Google to accept mail for any old domain. You have to be a Google customer first.

Re: Yahoo makes it difficult to leave its service by disabling email forwarding

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post #14

Just last week I noticed a charge on my credit cars from Yahoo Ad Free mail. There was an online link to cancel but no apparent way to request a refund. I have no idea how I ended up getting signed up for this. I've long used Yahoo as pretty much a spam bucket when I have to give out an address to someone I don't care to get emails from. (For all I know, I somehow got signed up a while back but I certainly am not awa…

it is a scam not associated with yahoo in any way, i heard.

the credit card scammers just use the fact that almost everyone in the US has a yahoo email.

Re: Yahoo makes it difficult to leave its service by disabling email forwarding

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post #8

I remember moving away from Yahoo! in 2008. It was like ripping off a bandaid, but after 3 months, I was able to stop checking it. I replaced it with a personal domain with email hosting through gmail. Today, protonmail looks like an interesting alternative, and thanks to this setup, would be a painless transition.

I'd recommend FastMail. I've been using them for a while and I'm very happy with their service.
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