Windows 10: Whole email account with all folders vanishes randomly.

Randomly, over the last year or so my main email account disappears from the list of email accounts although my outlook email account and its folders remain and continue to operate normally.

The email account may be recovered by simply re-adding the email account and waiting for the folders to be refilled or re-synchronized from the server. In my case, synchronization requires a couple of hours on a 200Mbps band. Use of the email account during refill is severely limited. Mail can be immediately accessed via the ISP's browser based mail manager.

The Windows 10, version 1803 and earlier mail program requires the longer re-synchronization. Is there a fix for this disconcerting email behavior?

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email account hacked. please help

Don't think you can if they were deleted from your email account and are not in your trash folder. Try contacting Yahoo, explain what happened, and see what they can do or suggest you do.

 

Unauthorized Emails from my account?

It is more than likely that your email account was hacked, either by a virus sniffing your password, or just simply hacked.

Either way, change your password on your email account. Unfortunately the damage by already be done. They already have your contact list and your email address associated with that contact list. There is nothing stopping them from sending out emails using their own SMTP servers to everyone on your contact list and claiming the emails are from your email address. They don't actually have to have access to your yahoo account or even any yahoo server to send emails to people that come from your address.

 

email account hacked. please help

Also may I suggest you change email accounts to one of the following.....

Gmail
Outlook

The reason is they both use "Step two verification". This style of verification means even if a hacker gets your password they cannot log in to your account. You see every time someone try's to log in that hasn't been verified you will get a text or a phone call giving you a final code to log in. Its very easy and simple to setup also. The great thing is once you setup your Email application with a specific "application password" from that account you never have to log in again AND your account is protected from being logged in from foreign entities.

I like the new outlook personally however Gmail is also damn good. Gmail also has an IP tracker that allows you to see WHERE the account has been logged in from. Anyway let us know if you wanna change over and have any questions. We will be happy to help and welcome to TPU!