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Yahoo Messenger sound alerts for incoming Yahoo mail stopped working

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c627627

c(n*199780) Senior Member
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Feb 18, 2002
About a week or so ago, incoming mail alerts simply stopped.
Tested this on multiple email accounts and multiple windows OS and no alerts of any kind come in when new incoming mail arrives.
Can anyone else replicate this problem?

Online installer:
https://messenger.yahoo.com/

Offline installer:
http://rd.software.yahoo.com/msgr/11/standalone/msgr11us.exe


Yahoo Messenger is supposed to alert you through sounds and or visual alerts that new mail has arrived to your Yahoo! email.



EDIT: Found a Firefox Add-on which works as a work-around: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/yahoo-mail-notifier/
(or outside of Firefox using something like Trillian. So third party solutions work on same system but Yahoo's own does not. Bad Yahoo!)

Edit Edit: Actually Trillian is buggy so this one worked better for email notifications: http://www.digsby.com/
 
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