Yahoo mail and two-step authentication

debodun

debodun

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way upstate in New York, USA
I've been getting pop-up advising me to initiate a two-step authentication to sign into Yahoo email. I am supposed to give them my phone number and they will text me a code to enter when I sign in. My phone is not text capable, but if anyone wants to look at my emails, they will certainly be bored.

I wonder if any other online email services are doing this.
 

debodun said:
I've been getting pop-up advising me to initiate a two-step authentication to sign into Yahoo email. I am supposed to give them my phone number and they will text me a code to enter when I sign in. My phone is not text capable, but if anyone wants to look at my emails, they will certainly be bored.

I wonder if any other online email services are doing this.
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Yes, I couldn't use my hotmail account (which is a legacy a/c under Outlook) for days because of issues like this. I finally got signed in some how or other, and checked the box where it says "stay signed in." That was about a month ago, and it has kept me in. When I'm done checking emails, I do not sign out.

@StarSong posted a suggestion to forward all my emails on my hotmail to a different email address so I could still get them in case I can't sign in to hotmail. I used a little known email service I have that requires no authentification, and It worked.

Next: My Yahoo email wanted to email a code to hotmail that I could use to sign in on Yahoo, and that of course meant I couldn't sign in to Yahoo when I was having trouble getting into hotmail. I was in a dead end circle.

So, as soon as I could, I changed Yahoo so that they could text me a code instead of emailing a code to hotmail. But if your phone isn't capable of receiving texts, that leaves you with few options. I thought any cell phone today could receive texts! I'm sorry to say this, but problems like this are not going away, and those who do not move with the times and have text capable devices may soon be left behind.
 

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