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  • Bid Goodbye To Your Yahoo Mail If You Haven't Logged In Since A Year

    Smriti Jha

    Member

    Updated: Oct 26, 2024
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    The message is very simple, Yahoo isn't interested in being the alternate recovery mail ID you only log in to, well, recover your passwords for other mail accounts. And if you don't forget your passwords fairly regularly (unlike me), then Yahoo might just kill your Zombie account. The company has decided to reset email accounts that have been inactive for at least 12 months and issue them to new users. The dormant email IDs, which must exist in heaps I'm sure, are to be freed in order to provide new incoming users a more favorable chance at better, shorter IDs. When I made my Yahoo mail ID, it was quite at its prime and I had to settle for a combination of a random dictionary word and my birth year. Yahoo aims to allow its news users to have the opportunity to sign up for “the Yahoo! ID they have always wanted.” Mid-July is when users will get to apply for IDs of their choice and they will be notified by Mid-August of the ID's availability.

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    If you're a returning user and you're reading this post, you obviously get to keep your ID (and that snigger). Meanwhile if you're an inactive user, you still have a chance to redeem yourself and retain your Yahoo Mail. Follow the simple steps. Step 1: Log on to any Yahoo! product before July 15th. Step 2: ????? Step 3: Profit! You get to keep your ID. Although, in future such accounts will remain active only if they are signed in to at least once every 12 months. So, there's that commitment clause.

    Just a gentle reminder, Yahoo also offers Flickr, weather, search and tailored content like sports news from your favorite teams. If you're duly motivated, log in and save your alternate ID from annihilation.

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  • Kaustubh Katdare

    Administrator • Jun 12, 2013

    I remember when having a Yahoo email ID was a cool thing. Then came Gmail and I was one of the first ones to get early access - and I'm on it since then. Now, Microsoft's Outlook is luring me like mad. Gmail's interface should learn a thing or two from Outlook's.

    Oh yeah, is there any such deadline on Outlook's accounts?
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  • Ashraf HZ

    Member • Jun 12, 2013

    I once jumped on the Yahoo Mail bandwagon when the UK version offered a whooping 6MB of space, the largest at the time 😀 YM Messenger was also a big thing.
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  • Smriti Jha

    Member • Jun 12, 2013

    YM Messenger was da bomb! Have many fond memories of the same. 😀
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  • Kaustubh Katdare

    Administrator • Jun 12, 2013

    Anyone remembers ICQ or ODIGO messenger? 😁
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  • Anoop Kumar

    Member • Jun 13, 2013

    Gmail already providing forget password to sms, no worry to have Yahoo mail ID👍.
    I use yahoo Id just for flickr. waiting for the day when it will allow portability with Gmail.

    Aren't no body got time to Yahoo😁.
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  • Jeffrey Arulraj

    Member • Jun 13, 2013

    I delocate by notifications from FB and Twitter in my Ymail id I don't think it is worth a using it
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  • Harshad Italiya

    Member • Jun 14, 2013

    Smriti Jha
    YM Messenger was da bomb! Have many fond memories of the same. 😀
    I remember my diploma days ! Used to spend lot of time on Yahoo Messenger ! 😒
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  • Jeffrey Arulraj

    Member • Jun 14, 2013

    Wat to do if we forget the password and also the answer to security qns for the ymail id 😖😳👎😭

    My social networking accounts are linked to it so do tell some idea
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  • Ankita Katdare

    Administrator • Jun 15, 2013

    I feel nostalgic to say it, but my earliest memories of best smileys/emoticons were on Yahoo Messenger. Especially the ROFL smiley.
    Gmail chat used to be boring.

    Now with Viber and Whatsapp, that gap is filled. 👍
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  • Kaustubh Katdare

    Administrator • Jun 15, 2013

    ChatOn beats WhatsApp. But there aren't many users there right now 😔
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  • Ashraf HZ

    Member • Jun 15, 2013

    Biggie, why not make a ChatOn drive on CE 😛
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  • Kaustubh Katdare

    Administrator • Jun 15, 2013

    ash
    Biggie, why not make a ChatOn drive on CE 😛
    What's ChatOn Drive?

    I sincerely believe that there should be a messaging app for CEans only. Got a question? broadcast it! Get answer within minutes.
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  • aNaN

    Member • Jun 16, 2013

    The problem arises when you have a number of mail ids ...😁
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  • Anoop Mathew

    Member • Jun 17, 2013

    I've used MSN Messenger more than Yahoo. Yahoo has given me a lot of nightmares, and I definitely wouldn't want to get back to it. My first e-mail ID was at yahoo.com, oh yeah!😨 And then I quickly adopted to Hotmail. I've been using hotmail ever since, and now MSN Messenger have merged with Skype, so gets even better 😛
    And yeah, as Biggie says, Gmail's got to learn from Outlook (aka New Hotmail 👍)

    RIP Yahoo! 👎
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  • Harshad Italiya

    Member • Jun 17, 2013

    anoopthefriend
    I've been using hotmail ever since, and now MSN Messenger have merged with Skype, so gets even better 😛
    You are a true loyal fan 😛 I fell out of MSN after uni, most of my MSN contacts already moved on to other platforms.

    Kaustubh Katdare
    What's ChatOn Drive?
    Not a Drive, a drive. Like recruitment drive. Promote ChatOn more on CE, make CE discussions mandatory on CE, etc 😛 Whats the maximum amount of contacts in a group chat? 30?
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  • Kaustubh Katdare

    Administrator • Jun 17, 2013

    O oh! Someone had created a CE group on WhatsApp. Promoting ChatOn is a good option; only if Samsung is ready to pay for it 😁
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  • Anoop Mathew

    Member • Jun 17, 2013

    Kaustubh Katdare
    O oh! Someone had created a CE group on WhatsApp. Promoting ChatOn is a good option; only if Samsung is ready to pay for it 😁
    CE group on Watsapp can get people connected, but it's just like a shout box. Someone who steps in the middle of the conversation wouldn't know where to begin. Moreover the watsapp group members are limited to 50. I have created a group for my school mates and it's quite fun!
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  • Ashraf HZ

    Member • Jun 17, 2013

    anoopthefriend
    CE group on Watsapp can get people connected, but it's just like a shout box. Someone who steps in the middle of the conversation wouldn't know where to begin. Moreover the watsapp group members are limited to 50. I have created a group for mmy school mates and it's quite fun!
    Thats fine. It will be like the old days on CE conference 😛

    Who runs the CE Group on Whatsapp by the way?
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  • Anoop Mathew

    Member • Jun 17, 2013

    ash
    Who runs the CE Group on Whatsapp by the way?
    Negative point is that you can have only one group admin on watsapp. That particular group admin should also have contact numbers of all other participants and add them to the group. Members can relieve themselves from the group whenever they want, but group admin can add them back later on (unless they have not blocked him from doing so).

    Getting back to the topic. Why would Yahoo want to get back into business? The Yahoo Messenger doesn't feature a multi user realtime chat option which would really be useful to companies. Skype does that perfectly. What has Yahoo got left that could click?
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  • Abhishek Rawal

    Member • Jun 17, 2013

    Kaustubh Katdare
    I sincerely believe that there should be a messaging app for CEans only. Got a question? broadcast it! Get answer within minutes.
    One day there will be tonnes of Apps/products all over world with Prefix "CE"
    CEchat,CEOS,CEkernel,CEDuino,CECar,CESmartphone !! 👍
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  • Ankita Katdare

    Administrator • Jun 18, 2013

    ^ I needed a like button for that comment. But then a 'like' will be just too lame for that thought. 😁
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