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The error message displayed on Yahoo's Mail site.(Credit:Screenshot by Don Reisinger/CNET)
Yahoo Mail appears to be down for many users.
Earlier today, CNET heard from a reader who claimed that "Yahoo Mail has been experiencing severe outage issues for the last 24-hours plus." After attempting to access Yahoo's Mail service, CNET received an error message saying that the "page you requested was not found." Other attempts yielded a "connection refused" message from the site. When trying to access the mail service through Yahoo's QuickView, the service said that it could not "connect to your mail server."
It appears that the issue could be affecting people around the globe. On Twitter, a slew of users are posting tweets, saying that they cannot connect to the service. Some have put it simply, saying, "can't log into Yahoo Mail." Others seem perplexed, with one person asking, "why is Yahoo Mail so messed up?"
Several people on Twitter have said that they've been having trouble with authentication. A few users said that they tried resetting their passwords multiple times, and the service still did not work.
In addition to those complains, DownRightNow.com, a site that tracks downtime for popular Web services, is reporting that Yahoo Mail appears to be down.
For its part, Yahoo hasn't commented on its Twitter account or official Mail blog on any outage. The company has also not immediately responded to request for comment.
Yahoo Mail's outage comes at an inopportune time for the company. Just last week, Google launched a tongue-in-cheek "e-mail intervention" tool that helps existing Gmail users coax their friends into switching from their existing provider to Google's offering.
"You've probably already improved the lives of your friends and family members by helping them switch to Gmail, but what about that one friend who still hasn't made the switch?" Google's site reads. "It's time to take a stand and stage an intervention."
We'll update this story as we learn more about the Yahoo Mail problems.
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