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KJVBIBLE1611 · Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 5:05 pm Post subject: Recover Old Yahoo Mail Account

How do i recover an old Yahoo Mail Account, which, i, believe is still active.
I set it up about 7 years ago, changed computers, forgot the user-name and password, so i can't log in to it.
Thank You,
Gary Teresi
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Racerbob · Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 7:31 pm Post subject:

I would forget about that old account from long ago and open up a new Yahoo e mail account. I am pretty sure that unused accounts get deleted from time to time by Yahoo.
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smileeb · Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 9:06 pm Post subject:

If I'm not mistaken any account no matter where it is if there is no activity in a years time, they kill it.
They think it might be a spammer.
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I think they also usually block trying to re-open an account with an email address that's been deleted. In other words, if you had an account you let go dormant and it was deleted, they won't allow the re-opening of a new account using the same email address. They seem ready to block "already used" dormant email addresses until the end of time.
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Ashcan

Gary, did you try using Yahoo's recovery page?:
https://edit.yahoo.com/forgotroot?done=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.yahoo.com&src=ym&partner=&intl=us
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notter43 · Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 11:11 am Post subject:

I think your out of luck. My brother passed away a few years ago. We wanted to clear out his Yahoo account and delete it. Yahoo didn't even have the common decency to respond to my requests. Based on what I found out later, Yahoo is very unaccommodating as far as granting access to other's email accounts even if they are deceased.

jgallaway81 · Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 1:13 pm Post subject:

Personally, Yahoo is rather unaccommodating period.

Its one of the reasons I moved to Gmail.. the other is that they allow me to set my domain's mail servers direct to a google address which creates a gmail-based mail server for my own domain.
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KJVBIBLE1611 · Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 1:21 pm Post subject:

I'm a member of yahoo groups, now in order to stay on that list, do i need a Yahoo email acct?, or can i use my main e mail?
Gary
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Racerbob · Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 7:43 pm Post subject:

I believe that you need a Yahoo e mail account. It is so very simple to go to Yahoo and open another. Takes maybe all of 5 to 10 minutes ?
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