41. You might want to reconsider Gmail. It has already been in the press that Google will be saving all emails (even deleted ones) and scanning them. They will sell the results to marketing companies. Check it out.

Posted at 5:41AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Etain

42. The yahoo mobile site works like a charm! Thank you very much, Zooker! That was a simply elegant solution (in the absence of the obvious fix.) Thanks!

I'm disappointed with Yahoo about this, but not ready to give up on them yet. There's something about them I still like. I just hope they go in the right direction, as I'm sure they'll be facing more competition in the future and I'm always open to new ideas. :)

Posted at 5:41AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Liz

43. Well, yahoo has been good to me for too long to give up this easily. Also, with a major upgrade to their mail system as they are trying, this is to be expected.

They could have done a better testing phase before they went live with it. C'mon, its yahoo. They probably could get some top notch programmers to get this off the ground easier and decided to save a few dollars and get the 2nd best. This is the result.

Thanks yahoo!

Posted at 5:41AM on Dec 19th 2005 by C

44. I was able to get in using Yahoo Singapore and Taiwan or just Yahoo India. These can be accessed from Yahoo's main web site and sctrolling to teh bottom to "Local Yahoos!" At times, even these get slow so patience is the order of the day.

Yahoo India: Go to in.yahoo.com and just log in as usual. (It is still working, even for SSL logons, I just checked.) It may ask to consolidate information on servers though.

Yahoo Singapore/Taiwan:
The trick is that you log in securely using the taiwanese site. At that point it will ask you to verify something. Instead, in the same window bring up singapore yahoo. When that page loads up the banner on the top left will show you as logged in. Just click on "Check Email" and you are in business withn the FULL yahoo interface ! This sometimes is very slow to respond, especially the singapore yahoo site.

Only Yahoo India and Singapore seem to be using seperate login servers which seem to be able to respond to requests. All the other countries' local yahoo servers just seem to time out.

Posted at 5:41AM on Dec 19th 2005 by novice

45. You'd think Yahoo would at least acknowledge the problem on their website.

Posted at 5:41AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Richard

46. Also, it appears that the problem is only the login servers and SSL certificate servers of yahoo which apparently are affected by the outage. Once the login is verified by *any* yahoo international logon, the URL when viewing the emails (for me) are the us servers only. So the email UI servers appear to be up and running fine, but the logon servers appear to have conked off.

Posted at 5:41AM on Dec 19th 2005 by novice

47. Thank you so much novice! I went to my Yahoo home page, and then I clicked on INDIA and guess what? IT WORKED! I finally got my mail after 3 days!!!! THANKS AGAIN!!!!!! IT WORKS LIKE A CHARM!!!!

Posted at 5:41AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Dee

48. You are welcome, Dee. Also keep in mind that things may be slow a bit for now, hence it would be wise to maintain session with the yahoo email servers for as long as possible. This would mean NOT closing the logged on browser window for as long as possible. If the session is maintained, you won't have the need to go thru the logon servers at all.

Posted at 5:41AM on Dec 19th 2005 by novice

49. Thank you - India worked nicer than the mobile site!

Posted at 5:41AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Zooker

50. I think it was a terrific idea to try the different international sites - but it won't work for me, and I've tried most all of them. I'm rying the My Yahoo sites an Mail sites and I can't login to any of them - the pages just freeze. I wonder why it works for people and not others? It must depend on all this mysterious internet stuff I don't understand. When I went to college and majored in computer science I studied JCL, wrote DOS batch progams and had to use COBOL punch cards. :-) THE HORROR, THE HORROR!

Posted at 5:41AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Liz

51. anyone else notice that besides the email being down that NONE of the links on yahoo work now?

Posted at 5:41AM on Dec 19th 2005 by dennis

52. And I swear it didn't the first few tries! Honest! I tried India first, then several others, went back to the mobile, tried again, came back here and read that other people had success and decided to try one more time and guess what it worked! Should I say, Thank you, India? Nah, Thank you Novice! See, you can teach and old, old dog new tricks! Woof! :-)

Posted at 5:41AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Liz

53. Liz, Just so that you can at least logon to yahoo, use the following Yahoo taiwan url:

http://tw.login.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/login.cgi?srv=mail&from=http://edit.tpe.yahoo.com/config/mail?.intl=tw

After that using the same window, you can load yahoo india and do a Shift+Refresh in IE *in the same window* and you shoudl see yourself logged in to yahoo india. Click on the email link from there. Hopefully it should work for you.

Posted at 5:41AM on Dec 19th 2005 by novice

54. This way works great, too - so if I time out of India and freeze up again, I now have this alternate way to sneak in the back door. Thanks a million, Novice, I appreciate your help. If the comet hits and we go back to the dark ages of computing, you can always count on me. :-) Here's to autoexec.bat!

Posted at 5:41AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Liz

55. international login doesn't work here either, but thx for tip. been down 2 days now in west NJ. can access My Yahoo as browser opens there, but no link nowhere, no way, anytime goes anywhere. except messenger continues to inform me of new mail with alerts, and the Mail Preview module on My Yahoo updates the mail sitting in my inbox. go figure. this does rot, but i've been on yahoo for a good hunk o' years now with no problems, and the range of community services is pretty unmatched. i'll give em a little more slack.

when i accessed via AOL browser earlier today, thought maybe it was a regional thing so checked chat rooms by location. seemed the east coast states were a little lite, but spoke with a guy from Union NJ in a chat room who said he'd had zero problems.

Posted at 5:41AM on Dec 19th 2005 by lorraine

56. Lorraine, I think your comments are correct. Even though me and my wife can use yahoo email using Taiwan/India (I am also near Trenton, NJ), I tried another seldom used yahoo ID that I also happen to have and that works the way you have described it. Leads me to believe some of the id's will continue to have problems till yahoo wakes up and fixes things.

I am trying to see if there is some yahoo email server URL that will accept a validated logon and show the email inbox. So far, no luck though.

Posted at 5:41AM on Dec 19th 2005 by novice

57. So glad that backdoor entries to yahoo work for some but still nothing for me! I'm in MD and haven't been able to access email for 3 days now and I'm so frustrated I'm about to climb a water tower and do something drastic just to get into my email! Think that will work? I also have mail plus and this is especially upsetting due to having paid for something that lacks serious customer service and support in getting issues resolved

Posted at 5:41AM on Dec 19th 2005 by MissBHaven

58. thx, novice, and to Zooker also for fixes. so, here's my fear....we're all from jersey and we're all on Dell's.

you think the folks that bring us Yahoo read this [and other forums]? if so, i'm a stress management consultant...think i could get a job at yahoo right now.

Posted at 5:41AM on Dec 19th 2005 by lorraine

59. look at entries earlier on today for link to mail through mobile. seemed to work for everybody. good luck.

Posted at 5:41AM on Dec 19th 2005 by lorraine

60. FINALLY! I have found that it isn't just me wondering what was going on! I am so happy to found you all! I am in MD too. It's been down since Friday for me and although I finally got my mail to go through Outlook, I am annoyed. For all the reasons listed above and more. All my contacts, etc. etc.

FYI:My understanding,from all my readings, is that GMail is calling it quits and telling it's beta testers that it will pull the plug in early July.

Posted at 5:41AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Marina