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Tell HN: Yahoo Mail deletes all emails due to inactivity

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Re: Tell HN: Yahoo Mail deletes all emails due to inactivity

#11

have been burned out by this Yahoo policy almost 5-6 years ago when it was (first?) introduced...

Did they introduce it that recently? I seem to recall it being policy over a decade ago. My memory is sometimes faulty however.

No its been a long standing policy, i was bit by it a few times with different accounts, just need to log in like once a year, they email you ahead of time at alternate email if you have on file warning

Re: Tell HN: Yahoo Mail deletes all emails due to inactivity

#19

I'd argue that this is a good policy, if you forget about it and there are sensitive documents etc contained within the mailbox then it's probably a good idea to erase it after a period of inactivity...

True, especially considering that a lot of accounts on Yahoo and AOL (basically part of Yahoo and does this same policy) are likely a decade or two old, so they may have passwords of like 6 characters and no 2FA, because that was super common back then.

Re: Tell HN: Yahoo Mail deletes all emails due to inactivity

#20
> A word of caution to all, set up a reminder to logon to your dormant email addresses every few weeks

I think it's a chore that most of us would not do. How about writing a script instead to login every x weeks and send you an alert email/text for that along with emails count?

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