I encountered a weird error on Yahoo! Mail a few minutes back. I was awaiting an important email and thought I’ll login quickly at my account. Unfortunately, the system just didn’t let me. I tried several times but to no avail. Below is a screenshot of the error I got when I went through the Yahoo login page.
I am sure the username and password were correctly entered on the Yahoo sign in page; anyway, that didn’t seem to be the issue.
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This wass different. The system responds with the following message:
The error, LaunchOutage, occurred when trying to connect to Yahoo! Mail.
Yahoo, obviously, does not want to leave their subscribers in the lurch. They mention that the error might be temporary but I could not access email after repeated attempts. There was also a prompt on the page to get to the account through the Mail Classic Yahoo version. That didn’t help at all as I got a “Sorry, the page you requested was not found“. Too bad. I think I’ll wait for 10 – 15 minutes.
I’m not sure if this issue is with only my account or is affecting others as well – I hope it’s the latter because then it will be addressed fairly quickly by the Yahoo technical people.
Update: I was able to get to my Yahoo Mail account after about 15 minutes of encountering the error. Guess it was temporary after all. I had thought of checking the Yahoo email account on my iPhone but could not locate my cell phone. The problem was ironed out in the meanwhile.
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Thanks….this was so much more helpful than the actual Yahoo ‘help’ section.
Thank you.10/10
I just got the same error while trying to access my Yahoo! acount. It’s not an isolated incident. Nor is it completely fixed I guess!
I am having the same problem that was written about in the above blog post… I hope mine goes away because I cannot access my Yahoo email. Is anyone else currently having the same problem, and if so has anyone been able to do anything to solve it?
I am getting that error message now. Obviously still not fixed.
Thanks for this info. It was driving me nuts trying to figure out why both my phone & computer weren’t allowing me into my Yahoo email! Very helpful.
I am getting an error message of 999..I tried to open an email and got the error message. This never happened to me before. This email is VERY important and I need to see it…now!
I have the same error….been this way for 20 minutes so far…very frustrating.
I and many other users in cannot access our emails – the problem has been persisting now for over 24 hours – when will it be fixed?
Hello,
I can’t open my Yahoo mail today. The page appears blank with nothing in it. What’s going on?
I and many other users in cannot access our emails – the problem has been persisting now for over 24 hours – when will it be fixed?
Until now i cant access my yahoo mail, i already answered the secret questions and used also the verification code send to my mobile number to changed my password but nothing happen.. still cant access.. can someone help me. thank you.
I have a difficullty to log in my Yahoo a/c. For some reasons the locked my account twice. I have all information regarding my job search. Please help me out to open my existing account. Whenever I put my yahoo ID, it says invalid ID number .
Thanks
Aslam Younus
@Aslam Younus
Are you sure you are using the correct ID or the correct ID and password pair?
I have not been able to log in to my Yahoo email account for the past week. When I enter my username and password and click send or login or whatever, the page which usually shows all my emails, flashes for a second and then another page pops up and says Yahoo is having technical difficulties and shows error 15. I tried accessing it using my daughters laptop and got same results. I received a message from someone who said Yahoo was aware of this problem and their techs were working to resolve it. I did not think it would take this long! I just checked again and still having same problem. However, after setting up a Gmail account, Gmail provides me a link to my Yahoo account where I can click and get to with no problem.
@Bill
So if I understand this right, you can get to your Yahoo! account via a link from Gmail(?). There are a couple of options in front of you:
1. Keep accessing the account via Gmail link (not sure where such a link appears in Gmail) and patiently wait till the problem is resolved by Yahoo! techs.
2. Upgrade to Yahoo! Plus which costs $20 per year, add this account to Gmail and access all messages at the Gmail email service.
I keep on getting “Invalid password/Yahoo I.D.” statement on my screen. My Yahoo ID and password are both saved on the computer so I’ m sure that I am not making a mistake. This happened for more than 20 times. Why does this keep on happening to my account?
@Savina Ong
Why don’t you try logging in manually by tying the user ID and password. If you still can’t access the account, please follow the instructions on how to reset the password.
Can’t access my Yahoo email account either!
Cannot login to email. It’s asking questions I don’t remember answering!
@Charles Williams
Seems someone hacked into your account and has changed the security questions along with the password. You can try contacting Yahoo support for assistance.
Sucks. Lost my password!
Trying to get into my email and Yahoo won’t except my password which I know is right. I have so much saved on the account. Hope they will fix this problem.
Forgotten answers to my secret question.
@Hillman
You can get the login information to the alternate email address you had set up or maybe your cell phone number. Else you need to contact Yahoo! directly.