Whether you’re missing an important email you were looking for or you’re not receiving any messages at all, it can be a big problem if your Yahoo Mail inbox stops working the way it should. Your account can stop receiving emails at any time and for a variety of reasons. Here are a few things you can try when Yahoo Mail is not receiving emails.

Depending on how the problem occurs, different things can bring down Yahoo Mail. In general, however, the main causes are:

Some of these causes have immediate solutions, but others require you to wait for the system to sort itself out.

These solutions apply to all versions of Yahoo Mail running on the web or mobile devices.