I ordered a couple of books on Amazon.ca yesterday and I was a little concerned when I didn’t get a confirmation email. I thought that it could just be a delay in delivery and figured I’d get it the next morning, so I went to bed.
This morning, the confirmation email had still not arrived. The first thing I did was to check if it wasn’t in my spam folder. It wasn’t. My next thought was that the Yahoo! Mail to Gmail redirection had somehow stopped working. I have a Yahoo! account which I used for Amazon, but that I now use for all sorts of throwaway purposes and my main Gmail account; all mail from Yahoo! is redirected to Gmail.
I tried to connect to the Yahoo! Mail web interface, but it gave me a very weird message: this user ID does not exist.
I thought that it was very odd and that it must be a mistake on my part. I tried several times, adding the @yahoo.ca suffix to make sure that I had the correct email, but no luck. Finally, I decided to do a test: I clicked the “New User” link, I typed in my Yahoo! user ID and clicked the “Verify” button to make sure it was available. It was.
My Yahoo! account was deleted sometimes during the week (I cannot say when exactly). Has this ever happened to anyone? Is there a cause for that?
October 1, 2009 at 6:14 pm |
When’s the last time you logged in to it? Supposedly they’re deleted after 4 months of no activity:
http://help.yahoo.com/l/uk/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/account/account-04.html;_ylt=AnBk1rnUOqqijqBJfkIFVlRpKSR4
October 1, 2009 at 7:25 pm |
Lee: Thanks for the info; I practically never log in because I redirect that mail to my Gmail account. I guess I’ll make a habit to visit once in a while.