[bpyne]

It's amazingly difficult to get away from. For those of us who had Yahoo email accounts, trying to get people to stop emailing them is a slow drawn out process. My wife and I switched to Gmail accounts at least 5 years ago. We still get friends and relatives sending to our Yahoo accounts. This, despite multiple requests to stop.

People seem to either reply all on old messages whenever they want to contact us or copy/paste email addresses from old messages, like invitations for Christmas parties, when they contact us. Either way we can't get away from Yahoo.

The other issue is companies using email addresses as user names. Just a few days ago, I went through Yelp to order a food delivery fulfilled by Grubhub. The order confirmation listed an old Yahoo account as the contact email. This was courtesy of Yelp using the Yahoo account as my login. Yelp provides a way to add an email address and make it the primary. Not all businesses do.

If I could snap my fingers and be done with Yahoo, I'd do it. I started to move us from it when Marissa Meyer was still CEO.

[thesuitonym]

I shed my Yahoo mail 15 years ago. It was easier back then, especially since I was moving to Gmail, which was miles ahead of Yahoo's interface at the time. I don't even remember when I stopped checking my Yahoo account, nor when it was automatically disabled because I didn't log in for too long.

About two years ago I started moving away from Gmail, and that was a lot harder. I kept checking but eventually had to just set up a vacation responder. I still check it about once every couple months, but to truly move away from an email address, you have to really stop using it.

[jdeibele]

I maintain a Yahoo.com email account but I'm not sure why. I have Gmail pick up the mail using POP and that's where at least 90% of the emails in my spam folder come from.

I guess I worry about there being something out there that I used long ago and want to retrieve. And they started recycling email addresses: https://celeretech.com/blog/yahoo-begins-recycling-e-mail-ac... So there was the fear that somebody else would take over your old address.

That was a long time ago (2010) and they reversed direction but there's nothing going on with Yahoo that makes you think they won't do it again.

[gogopuppygogo]

I’ve always owned (for over 20 years) a personal domain for this very reason. I can point the mail anywhere.

[bpyne]

Interesting. Does the domain setup forward to your web mail account?