Yahoo Mail outages due to maintenance
Some Yahoo Mail users were unable to log in to their e-mail accounts on at least two separate occasions this week due to planned maintenance work, Yahoo says.
On Monday, Yahoo Mail was inaccessible to an unknown number of users as a result of an "unexpected issue" that arose during routine scheduled maintenance, the company says. The issue was resolved and by 9 a.m. Tuesday morning the outage was over.
Then, on Tuesday evening the mail service was unavailable for one hour and 40 minutes during a scheduled maintenance release coordinated with AT&T, according to Yahoo.
I'm kind of surprised that scheduled maintenance work would disrupt any user's access to Yahoo Mail and would think that a backup system would be employed. But, what do I know?
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Elinor Mills covers Internet security and privacy. She joined CNET News in 2005 after working as a foreign correspondent for Reuters in Portugal and writing for The Industry Standard, the IDG News Service, and the Associated Press. E-mail Elinor. 
- by April445 October 27, 2009 9:37 AM PDT
- I am in Portland Or and my yahoo mail has not been available since Sat. (today is Tuesday). I can access my mail through my iphone so not sure what is going on.
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(3 Comments)As a side note, while I can access all my other web sites I have not been able to access Walgreens since Sat. Any connection?