#YAHOO MAIL FORWARD RULE FOR FREE#

Verizon said it regularly evaluates its products and services against current security standards and have decided to remove this feature to help ensure free Yahoo Mail accounts remain secure. Yahoo Mail Pro subscribers will not be affected by this change,” the company said. “You’ll still be able to view your emails in your Yahoo mailbox through your web browser at or via the Yahoo Mail apps.

If your free Yahoo Mail account is set up to automatically forward emails to a third party inbox such as Gmail, those emails will stop being delivered to the third party address on January 1, 2021. “Hackers who breach email accounts often add their own email address as an automatic email forwarding rule to receive carbon copies of all messages a victim receives,” the report mentioned. “Upgrade to Yahoo Mail Pro or subscribe to Access + Forwarding to use the auto forwarding feature at this time”.Īccording to a report in ZDNet, automatic email forwarding is often abused. “Beginning January 1, 2021, automatic forwarding of emails from your Yahoo inbox to a third party email account will no longer be a feature of free Yahoo Mail accounts,” the company informed.

Verizon, which bought Yahoo in 2017, announced the move in an update and the existing users will need to get a Pro account, which costs $34.99 per year, or $3.49 a month.

#YAHOO MAIL FORWARD RULE FOR FREE#

(IANS) Yahoo Mail will discontinue automatic email forwarding for free users from January 1 next year, in order to reduce hacking attempts.

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