Yahoo deleting mailbox entirely

[zarathustra]

Had a conversation with a college friend today after almost 8 years, we had some memories dating back to 2003 when we all went to a college trip to Kerala. Some of those memories, pics, conversations were all there in my very first Yahoo email address.

Logged in today after I guess more than one year, realized all my data was deleted by Yahoo. Apparently they do that if you don't login into your account for more than one year, oh well too bad. Be careful guys, I didn't lose anything monetary but those memories are lost forever. Feels sad but I guess it's my fault for not knowing this end user agreement. Still pathetic on Yahoo's part for not even letting me know before they purged the data forever through my alternate email address which they had.

[AntheKada]

1999 mails kuda access sethunna as of now for testing ... nothing has been delete for me

[zarathustra]

2 minutes ago, AntheKada said:

1999 mails kuda access sethunna as of now for testing ... nothing has been delete for me

Because you are logging in regularly, atleast once every year.

I didn't login in more than an year

[Bhumchik]

Mail providers delete data after 12-18 months of inactivity. It’s normal. Yahoo doesn’t inform users but gmail has an inactivity manager (18 months) and they keep notifying regularly.

Yahoo is a dead dinosaur

[zarathustra]

8 minutes ago, Bhumchik said:

Mail providers delete data after 12-18 months of inactivity. It’s normal. Yahoo doesn’t inform users but gmail has an inactivity manager (18 months) and they keep notifying regularly.

Yahoo is a dead dinosaur

Haha yeah that's why they don't even care anymore, they know they are going down the tubes.

Just sucks that a lot of my memories were deleted too, at that time Yahoo was the most popular email service

[soodhilodaaram]

42 minutes ago, zarathustra said:

Had a conversation with a college friend today after almost 8 years, we had some memories dating back to 2003 when we all went to a college trip to Kerala. Some of those memories, pics, conversations were all there in my very first Yahoo email address.

Logged in today after I guess more than one year, realized all my data was deleted by Yahoo. Apparently they do that if you don't login into your account for more than one year, oh well too bad. Be careful guys, I didn't lose anything monetary but those memories are lost forever. Feels sad but I guess it's my fault for not knowing this end user agreement. Still pathetic on Yahoo's part for not even letting me know before they purged the data forever through my alternate email address which they had.

yahoo has been doing this for over 10 yrs, all my old pictures were deleted in one of their outage back in 2010

get away from yahoo, its a sinking ship

[Tellugodu]

37 minutes ago, AntheKada said:

1999 mails kuda access sethunna as of now for testing ... nothing has been delete for me

1999 ante, meru oka 50 years untaru kada ?? Wow , Y2K batch aa??