new router\yahoo mail

[fightingfi]

Hello all, My router turned EOL on me so got a new one all setup game on! Well it seems now i cant login to my yahoo mail account. It wants to send a code which i had setup in case to my other email address both are valid and work. The yahoo code doesnt send to the other email for me to confirm. Ive checked its the right email address etc....keep clicking for inbox, other spam deleted stuff etc........NOTHING, clicked to resend 54 seconds later it says from yahoo again. NOTHING sent. Found a yahoo paid service 800 number called it , it hung up on me LOL Man this sucks millions of email half my life stuff as we all know tied to our emails and dont know what to do......Please help if you can. Thanks in Advance

 

[anabioz]

For yahoo recovery you only need an SMS temporary pin. Such a security hole.

 

[Caldezar]

I'm assuming you can't log in from your primary PC because your home IP changed when you reset the modem for the new router? (Or you're using the ISP device, which amounts to the same thing.) So confirming with 2FA would be normal. If you're logging in to the email from a web portal and sending to another email that you're checking from another web portal, then there's no reason the email shouldn't be coming through? Unless Yahoo mail is on a general blacklist for your secondary email for some reason? Did you register your device for SMS 2FA you can use?

Do you not have the Yahoo email logged in from a cell phone or tablet on a data plan? That shouldn't be effected by the 2FA if you're on 5G. Might be able to reset the password there, or at least contact support? Not really sure what support Yahoo mail has though. A quick Google search seems to show that the paid 'technical support' feature they have is more a crappy 'data security' bundle more than actual technical support for your email.

If you DO get back in to your account, I highly recommend you transfer to a better service than Yahoo. Outlook.com is a solid, free option. But either way, get set up with proper 2FA using an authenticator app or a free password manager such as BitWarden.

 

[anabioz]

Yahoo MFA is a joke, you can recover an account with just a phone number... I strongly suggest outlook or gmail as a primary alternative.

 

[fightingfi]

I'm assuming you can't log in from your primary PC because your home IP changed when you reset the modem for the new router? YES

everything else that was said i didnt understand any of it sorry

 

[Shadowmeph]

I'm assuming you can't log in from your primary PC because your home IP changed when you reset the modem for the new router? YES

everything else that was said i didnt understand any of it sorry

That sucks,
I think basically it means that since your IP address possibly changed Yahoo is doing extra security, I used to run into that with Hotmail which is now Outlook , I just transferred everything from that account to a new personal email address which is only used for private personal thing all other things like gaming or websites\ forums I belong to all use different email address's.
As for the blacklisted the other email address may have a filter that is blocking yahoo from getting through which would be pretty strange since Yahoo is pretty big company .

Sometimes sites for some strange reason just don't want to work for confirmation they send an email, but it never comes , I am currently going through this with Twitch I had to make a new account and actually created a new Gmail account just for that .
Proton mail isnt back for personal accounts
The first time it happened was my first email account I think that what happened was it was possibly hacked or attempted hack, so Hotmail locked the account ,then I made a second account and a few years later same thing happened. It may be possible that something similar happened to yow.

I still have my second ever email account which was from 2001 and yahoo I haven't had any real issues with it but like i mention below I dont use such places like Yahoo or Gmail even outlook for personal; things anymore

on a side not e Istill run into something similar with Gmail accounts I have a few for different things it's ok when I am signed in but if I reboot or sign in from my gaming PC or laptop I have to go through the same thing, but I also have it set up to send me a SMS to my cell phone