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Yahoo asking for subscription payment to send and receive emails

1 points by whyleym ↗ HN
This morning I received a notification in my Yahoo email web view that for my account that I have had since 1998 I would need to pay a subscription fee OR signup for their 'plus' product in order to send or receive emails. If I don't pay I will effectively be locked out of my email that I have had for close to 30 years. At this point in my life porting to a new primary email address isn't feasible and the monetary cost of the email isn't the point here for me, it's the principle that they are stopping the sending and receiving of email unless I pay. This doesn't feel right ?

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whyleym
Detail of the message that has popped up ...

"Your mailbox storage will be full in 18 days"

"Upgrade for more storage or free up space. If your storage is full after 15 May, you won't be able to send or receive emails."

Bender
Just a suggestion, enable IMAP in yahoo and generate an app password. Use something like Thunderbird to "move" all your emails off their server and onto Thunderbird locally. Get in the habit of exporting and backing up those emails. Then your mailbox will not be full and perhaps the messages will stop. Messages can still be sent and received in their web interface but your saved messages that you move will be saved locally.

A hybrid of this would be to move folders that you don't really use any more and just have for archival purposes. Whatever it takes to free up space.

The other option of course is to pay them for more storage.

theGeatZhopa
It's the same for Google. You get certain things for free or you pay for higher limits. Your options are clear:

Delete some mails to free up storage:

Mailbox will be full. Upgrade (pay) OR free up space. If your free tier is full then you stop receiving or sending ability..

Delete some attachment-heavy mails. I do it all the time (but with goog, out of same reason)