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Just yesterday, Facebook went down for sometime, and now, we’re seeing reports that Yahoo servers – which means in fact, many of its services – are down for a large number of users. Users, specifically those of Yahoo Mail, are taking to social media to reports that the service is not working.
Take a look at some reports:
For it’s part, Yahoo Customer Care on Twitter has said they are aware of the problem, noting that this could be due to ISP issues. Affected users are being suggested to wait for sometime.
We’re keeping a close tab on the situation, and will let you know as and when Yahoo servers are back or there is any news worthy development.
Update 1 (December 06, 2018)
While there is currently no update on outage, it has come to light that Yahoo is shutting down its Classic Mail service. Details here.
Update 2 (September 05, 2019)
Yahoo mail servers are reportedly down again. A lot of users are complaining about this outage on social media platforms like Twitter. See here.
We are also seeing unverified reports that say properties like Yahoo Sports, Yahoo News, and more are also affected by this outage.
Update 3 (September 05, 2019)
Someone on Reddit just said this:
From the statement, it appears this person is a Yahoo staff member, but there is nothing through which we can verify this at the moment.
Update 4 (September 05, 2019)
Yahoo customer care on Twitter has acknowledged the issue saying they are working to fix it.
See here.
Update 5 (September 05, 2019)
According to the Redditor whom we referred to earlier in this story, situation is slowly coming back to normal. Here’s what exactly they said:
Update 6 (Dec 04, 2019)
Going by the latest reports proliferating across Twitter, Yahoo mail is down for many as of writing this. Here’s what some of the complainants have to say:
Downdetector also conveys the same, as can be seen in the live outage map below.
Update 7 (June 28, 2022)
03:45 pm (IST): Many users have taken to Twitter to report that they are getting errors when trying to load emails. Moreover, users are unable to send or receive emails.
Fortunately, Yahoo support has acknowledged this issue and said that they are currently working to resolve it. However, they did not provide any ETA for the fix.
Update 8 (June 30, 2022)
12:35 pm (IST): It appears that the issue where emails are not loading has been resolved as we haven’t come across any fresh user reports on Twitter.
Update 9 (December 7, 2022)
12:35 pm (IST): Some users are reporting (1, 2, 3) that Yahoo Mail is currently down or not working as they aren’t able to login or send emails.
01:55 pm (IST): Yahoo Mail devs are reportedly aware of this issue and working to resolve it.
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