Yahoo Email Transition - Links & Resources

Thank you Chris,

 This the best collection of topics and [more importantly for me] the most concise description of what to expect from the move. Cox failed to inform me of the process 1st of all, then I received the hi-jacked link; but nothing really informative. Kudos to you and anyone who helped with this. My Outlook 2019 still unusable, but now I've got enough to try that later.

Thank you for this.

There is another issue that Outlook users may face. . Yahoo limits the number of items in an Outlook folder to 10,000. Beyond 10,000 they will not download/synch any remaining items. As an example, before I transitioned to Yahoo I had over 28,000 items in my Outlook inbox folder for my COX email account. After transitioning and synching with Yahoo, that same folder only had 10,000 items. Logging on to Yahoo directly I verified that all of those emails where still there, but it would only put 10,000 into my Outlook inbox folder. To resolve this problem, I had to create multiple new folders within Outlook for my COX email account and drag thousands of emails from my inbox over into those folders taking care to not exceed 10,000 for any one folder. This required multiple rounds of moving emails, forcing a synch with Yahoo to get more emails into my inbox (which was really slow), and then rinse and repeat until my fully synched inbox was less than 10,000. This was a royal pain in the rear and took quite some time to accomplish. After doing some research I found that Yahoo has known about, and often denied, this issue for years. Yahoo is not exactly what I would call a top tier provider.

Absolute 💩 show 😡

My Cox email just moved to Yahoo.  If I now leave Cox as a customer, will I always get to keep my cox.net email name or will they hold me hostage?  And if I can keep it... can I get that commitment in writing?

Who will control the cox.net MX records now?  Cox or Yahoo?  I'm sure Cox will continue to own the domain and will always have the capability to direct mail wherever they like and perhaps not Yahoo!  Is there a legal document proving who controls the MX records?

Now that Cox doesn't control the email services and Yahoo does, does that mean that the accounts won't be deleted if any of us decides to use an Internet provider other than Cox? I'm really getting sick of Cox trying to force mobile down all of our throats just to get a promotional deal, so it is a possibility.

I received my Yahoo email notice last night, which was the last email I got through my MS Outlook. Cox and Yahoo have totally cut off my access to email through Outlook. I followed the Yahoo online instructions to transition my Cox email to Yahoo email and it failed. I use SMTP and my changes match exactly the Yahoo instructions.

And to top it off, Yahoo wants to charge me for assistance…

I need help setting up in Windows Mail, which is run by Outlook, but is definitely not the same as regular Outlook.  It's been over a week since my mail was moved over to Yahoo and I haven't been able to successfully set it up.  I followed the general instructions and it ended in a complete cluster****.  Please don't abandon your customers now.  

My Cox transitioned just fine for one exception: because my husband's name is on the Cox account, all my Yahoo emails I send say they are from Mark. I can't find a way to fix it on Yahoo. How do I fix this?

Chris,

I received one email with instructions and links to switch my email over to Yahoo. I’m have an issue with all the personal information being asked for. 
social security number, credit card with pin, bank routing information, etc.  Why is this necessary or is it a scam? I’ve had my three Cox email addresses for almost 40 years so you can imagine I’m a little upset with this change.