About, oh, six years ago, I set up a Yahoo! email account. I already had one, now inactive, but it had something of a jokey name. I was living in France in that summer of 2002 and was scheduled to be heading home soon. I made the decision to have an email address that featured my name rather than a gimmick, and so came into being my principal email addy.

I don’t recall ever having had a problem with it until earlier this week. For a period of a couple of days I couldn’t log in. Every attempt to do so would take me from the log-in screen to the, erm, log-in screen again.

Seemingly as soon as the problem reached the point when I was using GooglePower~! to try resolving it, it sorted itself out.

With one slight problem.

Now, every time I go to check my email, this is what greets me:

No matter what I do, I can’t get it to show the true number of unread messages, usually zero. Every one of my folders contains messages that have been read, yet they all jump out as needing me to go through them. I check every message and hit the button “Mark as read”. They all get marked as read. Bingo.

Except no. They still come up as unread.

Not the world’s biggest problem, but it’s frustrating as all hell.

Tags: Complaints, Mistakes, Yahoo

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