Cannot reply, forward or compose in Yahoo! mail

Hi-
I have since downloaded the Netscape browser (go to netscape.com and dowload for free) and have had no problems with yahoo mail or anything else. See my reply to bob for more info.
good luck-
Maegan

Dear SIR I CANNOT SEND MY MESSAGES THROUGH YAHOO
I NEED HELP

DID you ever get your computer fixed with the problems with Yahoo. I am having the same and cant forward, reply and sometimes compose.

What did you do to fix it?

Thanks,

Gary

I am not able to forward mail or reply to messages that I have received in my inbox.

Does it also happen when you use yahoopops while sending from OE ?


yahoopops.sourceforge.net/

Thanks Bob-
I seem to have "fixed" the problem by downloading Netscape. In Netscape I haven't had any problems with my email. Since it was the browser I first used years ago (before IE was automatically installed on every computer in the known universe) I am comfortable with it. But I will try the fixes you suggest and see if that works. As I mentioned I have toyed with just about every setting, including Meta-refresh and all the security settings, but maybe I missed just the right combination. The confusing thing is that before my computer crashed, I had been using both XP and IE with no problems. The guys who fixed my computer installed that XP Sevice Pack 2, and I am wondering if that my be the problem...
Thanks again for your help- Maegan

yahoopops.sourceforge.net/ may help you.

i THOUGHT MY COMPUTER WAS MESSED UP BUT NOW i SEE IT IS NOT JUST MINE. we haven't had a send button that worked since i installed the sp2 on our system. I'll try the solutions you all have mentioned. What is IEFIX?

Type IEFIX into google.com to find out.

Bob

The actual website you should visit is http://windowsxp.mvps.org/IEFIX.htm. Download the zip file, extract it, and then double-click on the .exe file. I checked both check boxes once in the utility (you'll understand what I mean once you're in the program) and then clicked the "Apply" button. Be patient after you click the apply button--it may take a moment or two to do it's "magic," but you should get a "Complete" dialogue box and then click "OK." This fixed my IE problems with replying, forwarding, and composing mail in my Yahoo Mail account. Thank you CNet for this site. I could find no other help elsewhere. Good luck!

my solution was to download netscape and use that as my browser instead of IE. go to netscape.com and download it for free. the only drawback is that you don't have the html options for your email. (smiley faces, fonts, colors)...my IE is still not working with yahoo. I wish someone from yahoo would address this problem.

I actually had to register to post this reply. I wasn't going to, but the fix is SOOOOO easy, I felt compelled to share it.

I've been having the exact same problem as everyone else in this thread, Yahoo email: can't compose in HTML graphics, no reply box, no compose box, etc. Little white boxes with the red Xs in them for certain images ... it's java, plain and simple.

Microsoft and Sun Microsystems are not friends, this is not news. What is news is that a fresh install of XP, and especially XP SP2 will not include Java. This will cause untold problems with your IE browser, just like mine. I tried the hotfix download, didn't help at all. Netscape doesn't do the Graphic interface of Yahoo email, so there was no point in reloading that. I stumbled across the Java fix while on a DSL tech page, since I'll finally be upgrading to DSL next week and figured I should do some research ahead of time in case I run into any problems. Well, it was there that I realized not only was I unable to see any Java Applets, but that the Yahoo problem was a Java Script error.

I spent an hour and a half on dial up dowloading the latest version of Java here:

http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp

Installed, rebooted, logged into Yahoo, changed my preferences back from plain text to the graphic interface, and ta-da, now I can send HTML mail, just like that. Might not work for everyone, but it's worth a try.

tr0y

I've had a problem using Internet Explorer and yahoo mail. I was getting an 'error on page' message when I tried to get a screen to pop-up in IE7 (Internet Explorer 7) (when I tried to get the print page to pop-up with paypal) and when I tried to click on hyperlinks in yahoo email. I was searching for a solution for over a month and nobody had it. I tried everyone's suggestions: cleaning registry, getting updated version of JAVA, etc. without any results. The solution was to part with Internet Explorer and download FIREFOX as my new web browser. Firefox is only a little over 5 megs to download and it is blazing fast compared to IE7. I have an older PC w/ Pentum III, and firefox has been working like a charm. You can download it for free on firefox.com After you install it, remember to click on the Firefox Icon instead of Internet Explorer to do your web browsing.

Did you get the fix you need? I have the same problems. Please help

Gary

I downloaded netscape and have been using that as my browser instead of internet explorer. go to netscape.com and download it for free. my mail works fine now. none of the other fixes mentioned in this thread (and i have tried all) worked for me.

FIRE FOX DOES THIS ALSO!!! I HAVE Fire Fox 8.0 and It Also Has This Issue!

replying to a post/discussion carried out in 2004 and 2005?

That's 6 to 7 years ago!

Mark

Hi James

This is solution to your problem

1. Open your yahoo account
2. Click your Mail option Tab
3.Under Personalization, click General preferences
4.Under Composing Email Option, please tick : Compose messages as plain text
5. Click save at the bottom

You are done and you can compose emails.

To whomever is having that annoying problem of not being able to type in the e-mail box with Yahoo and IE, please do what I did and download the latest Netscape 8.0 at netscape.com....great new browser with loads of security features-which you may need to take a minute to figure out....but it also has the ability to do html in your mail now- you know, fonts , colors, little smileys So, I don't know what the ultimate problem was- but I know it lies with IE- and this solves it.
cheers- Maeganc
btw I did all the fixes offered here and nothing worked.

Thank you, your advise worked, I started trying with the easiest solutions pointed out in the forum, and it worked !!(the contact person within Yahoo did'nt have any clue about how to solve the problem ....) .

Thank's a lot to CNET Forum, I will recommend the site.

Cris

Thanks a lot for taking the time to write and propose the solution (revolt6 I solved the problem and seems everything is OK now.

Thanks again,

Hector

I had a similar problem with yahoo for a few weeks now. I've been searching discussion groups and came across this one.

When I try to click on compose, my message box was missing. Revolts yahoo preferences solution has fixed it for me.

I have a Dell 4600 using IE.

Thanks also for mvr's post about windows and SP2. I will try downloading Java (when I have time as I also only have dial up)cause I would still like to be able to view pics and use color and smileys.

Aloha!
Reid

Can anybody help ?
Last time I followed the Forum's advise, changed Mail Option into text, and it was possible to write again messages with yahoo.
After I downloaded Java and was able to use Html format again. (OP system is windows XP).

But now things are worse, I can't change Mail Options anymore, because when I try to save, I get Error on page and nothings happens.

Only difference, I installed FotoMail (new service for attaching pictures) few days before problems started ... has anybody made the same experience ?
(Yahoo technical assistance seems no to know what to do....).

Thanks a lot
Cristina