Yahoo Mail Not Receiving Emails? Here’s What to do

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Updated onNovember 30, 2023

updated onNovember 30, 2023

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While everyone has shifted over to Gmail, there are many who still use Yahoo Mail. However, many of our readers reported the Yahoo Mail not receiving emails issue.

There could be several reasons for this problem, which we will be discussing in this guide along with effective solutions to resolve the issue. Let us get right through it.

Why am I not receiving emails in my Yahoo Mail?

We dug up the internet and various forums and deduced a list of reasons that are responsible for Yahoo Mail not receiving emails issue.

Let us now look at the advanced solutions that will help you fix the Yahoo Mail not receiving emails problem.

What can I do if Yahoo Mail is not receiving emails?

Before applying the advanced solutions, we would suggest you resolve the problem using the below-mentioned quick fixes.

Let us now apply the advanced solutions and check if this resolves the issue or not.

1. Verify the block list

The above procedure will remove the sender’s email from the blocked list. Now you can ask the sender to send the email and see if this resolves the issue or not.

However, that solves the problem only if you’re not receiving emails from one ore more senders that you blocked.

2. Clear the browser cache

3. Check your Yahoo Mail storage

Yahoo gives 1TB per user for Yahoo Mail, i.e. 1000GB. If there is no space left in your Yahoo Mail, then you need to make room for the incoming emails.

For that, you need to clean up the trash or spam folders. Also, you can take a backup of all the old or large emails and delete the emails that have large attachments that you no longer require.

We have a guide that lists some of thebest Yahoo Mail backup softwarethat you can use to back up your old emails.

4. Check the email filters

Yahoo lets you use up to 500 filters to sort your emails. This a nice feature to quickly jump over to the emails that matter to you. However, having filters can also accidentally send emails to spam or some other folder.

That is it from us in this guide. We have a guide that explains how you candownload Yahoo Mail on your Windows PC for free.

Feel free to let us know in the comments below, which one of the above solutions fixed the problem of Yahoo Mail not receiving emails.

Yahoo Mail Not Receiving Emails? Here’s What to do#

Why am I not receiving emails in my Yahoo Mail?#

What can I do if Yahoo Mail is not receiving emails?#

1. Verify the block list#

2. Clear the browser cache#

3. Check your Yahoo Mail storage#

4. Check the email filters#