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

Post by angry-hacker » Mon, Oct 10, 2016, 9:52 PM UTC

fowl2 wrote: post #31

Rumudiez wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have to use the Email Forwarding section in Google Domains, then set it up from within GMail. GMail Settings > Accounts and Import > Send Mail As > Add another email address you own. I remember it taking a few tries to get all the Domains info right, but I can send and receive email from any of my Google-managed domains from within GMail. You can try Googling for updated instructions if these don't still work: ht…

Does it still include your real email address in the headers?

Post by Karunamon » Mon, Oct 10, 2016, 9:58 PM UTC

pasbesoin wrote: post #16

Rumudiez wrote: 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.)

Post by MisterWalter » Mon, Oct 10, 2016, 10:02 PM UTC

Post by ocdtrekkie » Mon, Oct 10, 2016, 10:05 PM UTC

MisterWalter wrote: post #36

I worked at a school helpdesk for a while, and I saw that whenever school email accounts were hacked, the attackers would set up forwarding to some other account. People wouldn't notice the forwarding for weeks or longer, and would only come in to us by chance. In the meantime, a lot of information could be siphoned off. There could be some legitimate security concerns there, especially since most yahoo accounts don'…

Post by 1945 » Mon, Oct 10, 2016, 10:19 PM UTC

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #38

MisterWalter wrote: post #36

I worked at a school helpdesk for a while, and I saw that whenever school email accounts were hacked, the attackers would set up forwarding to some other account. People wouldn't notice the forwarding for weeks or longer, and would only come in to us by chance. In the meantime, a lot of information could be siphoned off. There could be some legitimate security concerns there, especially since most yahoo accounts don'…

There is a very easy solution to this, which I believe Gmail employs: Place a very noticeable banner on the inbox when all your email is being forwarded to another address.