'Temporary error 3 may prevent you from accessing your Yahoo Mail account.?

I cannot access my email. It showed 'Temporary error 3 may prevent you from accessing your Yahoo Mail account.

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  • At the suggestion of someone else further down the scroll line, I just tried clearing my browser --- and it worked ! I'm now back into my Yahoo account --- thank goodness ---

  • Hi, Try Clearing History, Cookies and Cache, also Update the Internet Browser you are using at the moment or use a Different Internet Browser.

    Very Basic way to read your Emails http://m.yahoo.com/p/mail

    To Contact Yahoo by Email, this can be done by clicking on HELP at the Bottom Right Hand side of the Yahoo Home Page under Horoscopes.

    Click on whatever Subject is best for you for more information, you can also Click on the Arrows for more options, or Type your Problem in the Search Help box.

    For more Help and advice you can also Go to the Right hand side of page and click on Contact Customer Care.

    Click on Select a Product, then select a Category or Version, page will reload for you to click on Sub Category.

    Make sure you fill in Brief Details of what has Happened, click Enter.

    Depending on the Category you select and the Sub Category you also select you may see at the Bottom of the Page for more help Click on EMAIL A SUPPORT AGENT. You may have to click on different ones and try variations.

    Or else there will be information there on the page to help with your problem.

    There will then be a Form to fill in. Fill in the form with as much information as you can remember about your security details and your yahoo account etc.

    Yahoo will then contact you at a Different Email Address that you need to give them. This email address CANNOT be a yahoo email one.

    You need to give them a different Email Address, it could be one that you already have or you will need to create a new one, Google, Hotmail, etc. You do this by clicking on Email and then click on Register and follow the instructions.

    They only need this Different Email Address to give you instructions regarding your yahoo account.

    When Yahoo send you an email, make sure you check the Trash and Spam folders as well as the Inbox in case it went in there instead.

    You will be asked to create a New Password, Best a hard to Guess One for anyone trying to access your Yahoo Account.

    I Would Also Strongly advise that you register an alternative email address and your Mobile Number/Cell Phone Number with Yahoo, that is done through Account Settings. (I Think).

    That way if your account is ever hacked or similar, a message should come up and they can send a code to your phone or other email address for you to then unlock your Yahoo Email Account.

    To change your security questions - http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?locale=en...

    Good Luck

    Claire

  • me too, its been 2 days now with that temporary error 3 and don't even know what it means. Hopefully i can access my mail from chrome and ie

  • Error 3

    https://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?page=content&id=SL...

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    This has been one of the most reported problems I have seen

    Some users have indicated that signing out and signing back in has solved the problem

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    Others have reported clearing the Cache has solved the problem.

    http://www.wikihow.com/Clear-Your-Browser%27s-Cach...

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    Some report changing browsers solves their problem

    This Yahoo link displays the latest versions of IE and MacIntosh

    browsers that work best with Yahoo

    http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/help/faq/browsers...

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    Finally a Yahoo rep submitted an answer advising she had check a particular account....could

    not solve it.....so she ended up sending it to their engineering department to resolve it. So....if nothing above does not help you have no other choice, but to wait....

  • I'm getting the same error message as well.

  • Thank you for telling me to clear my browser history! It worked!!!! Yeah :)

  • Me too and probably a lot of other people. It will hopefully be fixed soon.

  • Mine has been saying this for 4 days now ... any help from Yahoo on this one would be appreciated!

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