I've spent the past 10 days going back and forth with Yahoo trying to access my email.  I don't know the alternate address given years ago when my account was opened, but I was able to answer the secret question.  They still won't help me access my email.  Any Suggestions?
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hey dude!! when you answer the secret question... your password is mailed to your alternate email id!! if the email id is not there... then you are lost!! you better create a new email id .... try using brute force if you have a broad band... it's a tool which checks your email id with random genrated passowrds... it's gauranted to work... but it takes long time like a few days.. if it's gonna be just characters!!! instead of trying all this.... you can better create a new id and keep backing up your contacts and private stuffs!!!
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You can always try looking up the e-mail adress in a web search engine. In older public forums the address was shown in clear text.\n\nQuite often the domain (the stuff behind the @ sign) can give hints about the sender, or the user handle before. Yahoo addresses may have a public profile which sometimes give you hints or information.\n\nIn the age of spam, more often than not the sender address is faked, though. In that case you couldn't even reply.\n\nAlternatively, you can use a second, free e-mail account to reply to the sender without revealing your identity. But then the original sender will be in the same situation you are in now...
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I've had my yahoo address for years. I don't want to change it unless I come across some security issue. Sure, I get a ton of spam, but it all goes in the spam bucket and I don't have to deal with it. I have another email at work, but that's just business stuff. I'm comfortable with yahoo and I'd probably have to have a more pressing reason than spam to change my user name. On the other hand, my daughter, who will soon be applying to medical school, realizes that she will have to establish a new more professional sounding user name than the one she created when she was 13. She'll probably keep the old one for her friends. She has a college email account, but needs a portable one that she can use for  professional matters. So that's our story.
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You can ask for a password reset through Yahoo.  It will ask you your secret question that you input earlier, to which you must know the answer.  Other than that, you're not going to be able to get it.\n\nHere's how to access the reset:\n1.  Go to http://mail.yahoo.com\n2.  Click on the "Forgot your ID or password?" link under the "Sign in button"\n3.  Put in your information at the bottom, and click Get New password
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I had a similar situation happen to me.  Someone got my password, changed my secret question, and all but locked me out.  I informed Yahoo immediately, but to no avail.  I used a feature on their help page (which I don't think is available anymore) that was essentially live help.  They told me that since it was a "free account", I would be up a certain creek without a paddle.  Then I tried to e-mail them from an account I made with MSN, but I just got the same response.  I feel you may be in the same boat as I was.\n\nGood Luck
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Yeah sorry, I had this problem and I actually found the yahoo number and called them and basically they said that there is no way to get to your account without that information that you supplied when you first opened it...so you just lose all that stuff basically, sorry I couldnt help
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Can you log in to your Yahoo email or any other Yahoo product? If so, your password has not been changed. \n\nOtherwise, best thing to do is contact the Yahoo help desk and get them to re-set your password for you. Not sure what their policy on this is though.
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I assume that is a free e-mail account. If so, you are pretty much doomed, let alone the secret question. Yahoo does not help free account holders for retrieving his or her password.\n\nYour best option now is to discard it and open a brand new account, redirect your e-mails to be sent to the new one, as well as you online contacts. After that, make sure you save your secret question and password for future reference in case you lose them again.
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Even you couldn't remember your security answer! Thats wierd you are supposed to keep something much attached to your life and daily happenings. Its really an irritating moment. Things in life get worst when you have a blocked email account. Try adding more of your perticulars to see if it would give you some stretch to breath! In the password forgotten, try to enter through your reference e-mail you've specified, or try your postal code/ Zip Code. Remember do not enter your specifics unless requested by the page.\n\nBut remember your e-mail address could've been hijacked by a hacker. He could've scanned certain packets of your computer found-out the password and username, and then played his pathetic joke on you! \n\nIf (conditional clause), you find this e-mail address so important, try to claim it by calling a toll line, or whatever. If not so, then simply forget about it. The E-mail host would take care of it after a while. They simply delete non-functional email accounts after a specified time.
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Sorry Ben, but without an alternate e-mail addresses they can't send you your password. However, just go and create another hotmail, yahoo, G-Mail or whatever account and then use that for your alternate address.\n\nIt is important to have an alternate address anyway. For many reasons. If one mail server goes down, you can send an e-mail to your family and friends tellling them to temprarily use the alternate instead of your usual address. It is also good to have it for your business needs. if you have downloaded a program it is good to have an alternate address just in case something happens to your other account. \n\nAnyway goodluck retreaving your password. But the only way is to provide an alternate address. Sorry Ben!
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Consider doing these.\n\nUse this link to delete an existing yahoo email account:\nhttps://edit.yahoo.com/config/delete_user\nNote that this will completely delete your account and you will not be able to access the mails again.\nRead this to understand this completely:\nhttp://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/access/access-08.html\n\nTo create a new account, go to http://mail.yahoo.com/\nLook for \n\n"Don't have a Yahoo! ID?\nSigning up is easy.\n\nSign Up" \n\nClick on "Sign Up", and you will be aksed to provide information required for a new account, and new id and passwords. Fill that, and you are ready. Tell your friends about this new id, and DO NOT leave this new email address at web sites, do not use to forward mails to people you dont know. That is the best way to avoid getting spam mails.\n\nConsider creating an alias for your existing email id at\nhttp://edit.yahoo.com/config/list_alias?.src=ym\n\nGetting alias would not change anything for the acocunt, you will still get mails in the same account.\nyou can ask people to send you mails on the new id that you got, but if someone sends it on the old, that is not a problem either.
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Might be might also be that your email program blocked access to it..you need to check your email account settings...if you have an IT person call them\n\nOr it might possbiily be an antivirus warning that it could not open it because it detected a flase something and a red flag went up and blocked access to it\n\nis it from someone you know?\n\nif it is not then Personally I would dump it just to be safe
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Hi cooldure! I don't have a secret but I do have a little problem. Someone sent me a nice message today and I tried to email her back but it wouldn't go through! She hasn't gone to her yahoo mail inbox and opened the Welcome message that Yahoo sent her. She needs to do this so she can follow the instructions to confirm her account. After she does this people will be able to send her email! How can I let her know about this (hint! hint!).
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Well, did you give them another e-mail id? \nIf you have then, you can request a new password on that id.\nAll you can do now is to contact the yahoo services. They are pretty helpful. I had lost a password and contacted them.\nI really don't remember what all I had to do at that time just that they made me fill up a form.\n\nGood Luck!
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try again with your alternate email\n\n:> peace\n.
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there should be an option to click on Forgot Your Password? click on it and it will ask your secret question, or an alternate email address. it may even ask your personal info that only you would know. then it should either give u a new one or send it to your alternate email account.
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Well, if you want to access your email, they ask you for your password every day I believe, unfortunately. If you're just looking to access your MyYahoo! page, then it keeps you logged in for a long time.