Yahoo email, old emails are gone?

[Ucy]

I had almost thesame issue with the email provider but later remembered that they actually had a policy of deleting mails of users who failed to login into their email addresses for certain period of time. Maybe that's what happened to Op. I actually had mine for more 10 years and lots of my very old emails were deleted. Guess they've changed that policy by now, probably due to competitions from email providers that keep users email as long as possible, whether they login or not

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[mich]

Having seeing this I tried logging on my email for yahoo and there are 0 emails in there.

[heavycure]

I had the same thing with my Gmail , but it was just bugged out for a few days then i reloged and it was normal

[Twinkledoe]

Having seeing this I tried logging on my email for yahoo and there are 0 emails in there.

Encountered this thread today but I had the same experience when I checked my oldest yahoo mail last year. I also thought that someone hacked my account as nothing was left. I actually panicked because I didn't know at that time that yahoo has that protocol. I just felt sad that my oldest mails were gone and maybe old photos that I forgot to save.

[mich]

Having seeing this I tried logging on my email for yahoo and there are 0 emails in there.

Encountered this thread today but I had the same experience when I checked my oldest yahoo mail last year. I also thought that someone hacked my account as nothing was left. I actually panicked because I didn't know at that time that yahoo has that protocol. I just felt sad that my oldest mails were gone and maybe old photos that I forgot to save.

Me too I had many old photos from my flip phones days stored on my Yahoo email that are now gone forever.

[ethereumhunter]

Usually, if you do not open your email account for more than 6 months, the email provider can lock your account temporarily and then after a year, they can delete your account. If you want to reopen your email account, you need to verify that you are the owner, which will be a reset for the email. I have had that experience before. You need to check all your email accounts at least once a month to avoid the temporary lock.

[boyptc]

Usually, if you do not open your email account for more than 6 months, the email provider can lock your account temporarily and then after a year, they can delete your account. If you want to reopen your email account, you need to verify that you are the owner, which will be a reset for the email. I have had that experience before. You need to check all your email accounts at least once a month to avoid the temporary lock.

Is this for sure?

I have one email that I haven't used for a long time but when I've opened it, it didn't required me anything and nothing usual has happened. I don't know for sure that others have experienced the same thing as mine.

I also didn't visit it once per month but it's been a lot of months since I've visited it but when I've reopened it, it's still fine.