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July 23, 2006 at 4:54 am in reply to: And the Yahoo! Server goes down… (currently now working!) #148606sjnMember
IM works for me, but I still cannot access email on one of my accounts.
July 22, 2006 at 9:31 pm in reply to: And the Yahoo! Server goes down… (currently now working!) #148605sjnMemberHave not been able to access Yahoo IM for about 2 hours.
Email works for one of my accounts, but not both.
sjnMembermora wrote:Besides, I read in this forum that changing the connection settings from no proxies to firewall with no proxies creates a series of problems with voice, photo-sharing, webcam, etc…Quote:Yeah, I soon realized that the “Firewall no proxies” setting took away the webcam capabilities. So I went back to the original settings. Now everything seems to work just fine – I sent a number of test offline messages with my multiple accounts.However, it is very odd how a window with all my accumulated offline messages suddenly appeared after changing the settings to “Firewall no proxies.”
sjnMemberJust a follow up to my post from yesterday: changing my proxy settings to “Firewall No Proxies” seemed to do the trick! After making the change, my offline test messages suddenly all appeared!
However, I don’t recall ever having adjusted the proxy settings before, and I never had a (known) problem in getting offline messages before.
sjnMemberThere definitely seems to be a problem with getting offline messages today. I just tried several test messages using my multiple Yahoo accounts, and NONE of them were received!!
I do know that if Yahoo “thinks” you are still signed in, you will not get offline messages. However, when I do sign out, I use the menu option “Close and Sign Out.”
Maybe others with multiple accounts can test this out too.
sjnMemberI have been experimenting with this…I logged in using my Primary Yahoo ID and set the stealth settings for my Secondary ID as ‘permanently offline.’ Then I logged with the Secondary ID, but I was able to adjust the stealth settings for the Primary ID.
Interestingly, when I logged back in with the Primary ID, I was NOT able to reset the stealth settings. I would select either ‘online’ or ‘offline’ and close the stealth settings box. When I opened the stealth settings box again, it would still be set to ‘permanently offline.’ At one point, the contact name was not italicized anymore, but the setting still said ‘permanently offline.’ After I logged off and then logged back on again, the settings were correct.
sjnMemberA friend of mine hasn’t received some of my recent offline IM messages. However, I noticed a pattern for two of the ones he HAS received: Two times I sent him the offline messages, stayed logged on (invisible), and then eventually my friend logged on, received my messages, and replied to them. Also, another time I broke up the message into two separate ones, and sent them right in a row, and he received them. Maybe doing that helped force them through??
Maybe there is no rhyme or reason for why some go through and some don’t, but I figured that I would share my experiences.
sjnMembercarlindsi wrote:Hey guys,I just started a new job, and management distributed an Internet Usage/Email policy. Of coure, instant messaging or chat of any kind is prohibited. This totally sucks. I was using Yahoo IM everyday at my old job, particularly to keep in touch with my guy who is overseas. I am so disappointed right now, I was hoping I might be able to contine that with this new position. Anyway, I’m sure I’m not the first person who has run into this. Can anyone come up with any suggestions to get around this? I have no idea what’s out on the market these days… I would even buy my own mini pc or palm pilot, etc. if I had to. Can someone help please??????????
You could use your cell phone to exchange text messages via Yahoo Mobile. Although having a long conversation with someone that way would be annoying for me. Plus, carriers charge for text messages: sometimes you get a certain amount for free, sometimes you get a charge for each message. Also, you could get a cell phone with a browser built into it.
Two years ago, my company shut off all access to instant messaging, plus personal email websites (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.). It was supposed to be a temporary thing while a major virus was going around. They never gave us back the access, and I think more and more companies are adopting similar policies. IM environments are too vulnerable to security flaws, and if I had a company, I probably would limit or shut off access entirely.
sjnMemberMiamiGuy wrote:Well according to yahoo’s help site it simply says:1. Under Preferences in Menu, select Invisible Mode and click OK.
2. Select I am invisible to others and click OK.Thanks. I think that option is available only if you use the cell phone’s web browser feature to connect to the Internet, which I don’t. When I sign in, I simply send a text message to 92466 (Yahoo) with my user name and password. That logs me on to YM automatically and changes my status to “I’m Mobile.” There is no menu from which to select invisible mode.
sjnMemberThe offline messages that I get appear in the archive with no problem. I use version 6. As JimmyWithTorch pointed out, if someone is not on your buddy list, then the offline message will not be saved in the archive.
On the archive preferences screen, I have all of the boxes checked. (On a side note, I also specify to delete message older than 10 days, but nothing ever gets automatically deleted.)
sjnMemberUnSaKreD wrote:Currently, there is a Yahoo! exploit out that will allow you to steal ANYONES name.Unfortunately there is no protection against this exploit.
That’s disturbing. I have been using Yahoo for years, and find its programs and features to be the most user friendly. However, after reading this post (and others on this forum), I am having a lot of misgivings about it.Would you say that compared with MSN and AIM, Yahoo has the most vulnerabilities?
sjnMemberWow! I am so glad that I found this forum. The same exact thing happened to me last Saturday night. I was on Yahoo Messenger, and got the same type of message, with a link to a fraudulent Geocities page. The page was not accessible, and I thought nothing of it.
Fortunately, I was able to gain sole control of my account. The person who hijacked it did not change the password, but instead deleted the contents of my Inbox and all of my mail folders, and sent out Instant Messages from my account.
Needless to say, this was a learning experience.
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