Yahoo mail - delete doesn"t work

In Yahoo Mail, pressing delete with a message checked in the inbox
listing has no effect. The only way to get rid of a message is to open
it ...

This happens both in Opera 9.02 and Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.8. It
happened to us in 2005, at which time Yahoo sent us a response (which
of course blamed everybody but themselves). The problem went away but
has returned. Yahoo has not responded to our further query.

Switching to the new yahoo mail doesn't work, as it does not load in
either browser. We have to revert to the old yahoo mail.

Java and JavaScript are activated. We've deleted the cookies file and
deleted both memory and disk cache. No improvement.

I noticed that the same problem was reported by others in this
newsgroup 5 years ago, but couldn't find a recent report here.

gmail isn't perfect either (though it has been pretty good in Opera 9),
but having to open an email in order to delete it is a showstopper.

TIA

--
Jonathan Berry

Re: Yahoo mail - delete doesn"t work

Yahoo has demonstrated cluelessness with email in other areas, such as
their inability to implement SASL according to the specification. That
particular problem has been unfixed for years, and has even made it into
the UW IMAP FAQs.

I heard about the latest Yahoo webmail breakage a couple of days ago,
courtesy of a non computer literate relative in another country who uses
Yahoo webmail and essentially is cut off while this problem exists.

The world has gotten to the point that even AOL and Microsoft are better
at fixing problems than Yahoo (and more responsive)!

Fire Yahoo, and use a competant provider. Yahoo is incompetant: they
don't comply with published Internet standards; they don't respond to
problem reports (in fact, it's nearly impossible to reach any human at all
there); and the few times they do respond to problem reports they
(erroneously) point the finger elsewhere.

-- Mark --

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