Opening attachments Have been having trouble opening the attachments from yahoo mail for 2 days now. Opening the mail is fine but the attachment is different. Can you help?

Probably restricted due to your security settings-maybe has attachments deemed unsafe. Could be a spam email.

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Yahoo Mail is a popular webmail service that allows people to create their own email username and have it hosted by the Yahoo network.
In addition to providing fast and reliable email, Yahoo Mail also allows you to send and receive large attachments.
If you use Yahoo Mail, and are having issues opening attachments, there are several easy troubleshooting steps you can try to get your Yahoo Mail attachments.
Sign out of Yahoo and clear your cache.
Since Yahoo! needs to access your cache to keep you logged in and to communicate with your computer when downloading attachments, a full cache can prevent Yahoo Mail from opening attachments correctly.
Go to your browser's "Tools" or "Internet Options" menu and then select the "Delete Temporary Internet files" command to delete your cache.
Reload the page.
lf you have had Yahoo Mail open for a long time, the page may have gone idle, and you may not be able to access your attachment.
Press the "Reload" (F5) button and then log back in to your account.
Ensure that the attachment is not corrupt.
If the sender did not finish uploading before they hit "Send" or there was an error during the upload, the file may be corrupted.
Ask the sender to re-attach the file and send it again.
Check the file format.
Some formats are proprietary and will not open unless specific programs are installed on your computer.
For instance, if you are sent an AAC file, you will not be able to open it unless iTunes is installed on your computer.

Fix Yahoo Email When It Won't Open Attachments
Yahoo Mail is a popular webmail service that allows people to create their own email username and have it hosted by the Yahoo network.
In addition to providing fast and reliable email, Yahoo Mail also allows you to send and receive large attachments.
If you use Yahoo Mail, and are having issues opening attachments, there are several easy troubleshooting steps you can try to get your Yahoo Mail attachments.
Sign out of Yahoo and clear your cache.
Since Yahoo! needs to access your cache to keep you logged in and to communicate with your computer when downloading attachments, a full cache can prevent Yahoo Mail from opening attachments correctly.
Go to your browser's "Tools" or "Internet Options" menu and then select the "Delete Temporary Internet files" command to delete your cache.
Reload the page.
lf you have had Yahoo Mail open for a long time, the page may have gone idle, and you may not be able to access your attachment.
Press the "Reload" (F5) button and then log back in to your account.
Ensure that the attachment is not corrupt.
If the sender did not finish uploading before they hit "Send" or there was an error during the upload, the file may be corrupted.
Ask the sender to re-attach the file and send it again.
Check the file format.
Some formats are proprietary and will not open unless specific programs are installed on your computer.
For instance, if you are sent an AAC file, you will not be able to open it unless iTunes is installed on your computer.

Contact Yahoo Customer Service
Yahoo is a popular website founded in 1994 that provides a wide range of Internet-based media and services.
Popular Yahoo services include Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Messenger, Yahoo Answers and Yahoo Games. All Yahoo services can be accessed using one account.
Yahoo supports all of these services with customer support via email, help desk and telephone.

Call Yahoo Customer Service.
They have three phone numbers you can call: (866) 562-7219, (408) 349-3300 and (408) 349-1572. They are open Monday to Friday, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. PST.
Call Yahoo Corporate.
The have two phone numbers you can call: (800) 318-0631 and (408) 349-3300.
They are open Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. PST.

Use the Yahoo Help "Contact Us" form.
Select the fields that are most appropriate for your question/concern.
Click "Continue."
Enter the specifics of your question/concern.
Allow up to 48 hours for a response via email.
Contact Yahoo by email.
For this, you will be required to log in.
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With the Web-based Yahoo! Mail service, you can attach to your email message a saved Web page or another document in HyperText Markup Language format.
When you attach an HTML file in this way, Yahoo! Mail won't display the HTML content of the attached file in the email message body.
To view the attachment, you must click the attachment tab above the email message.Yahoo! Mail and HTML
Yahoo! Mail is a Web-based service and it's fully compatible with the coding languages used to design and display Web content, including HTML and XML, Extensible Markup Language.
This means emails sent or received in Rich text or HTML format include clickable hyperlinks, graphics and other Web design elements.
However, Yahoo! handles emails with HTML attachments in a different way to email messages formatted with HTML.

About Yahoo! Mail Attachments
Like most email programs and online services, Yahoo! Mail offers an attachment feature for adding images, video clips, audio files and HTML document to email messages.
Some email programs display the content of the attached file in the email message body, but Yahoo! Mail doesn't provide this feature for any file attachment, whether it's an image, video clip or HTML document.


Viewing Yahoo! Mail Attachments When you attach an HTML document or another file to your Yahoo! Mail message, an "Attachments" button labeled with a "Paperclip" icon appears below the email address fields and above the email message body.
Clicking the "Attachments" button opens a pane containing a list of all files attached to the email. The email sender or recipient can open each attachment to view the files by clicking the file name.

Considerations

When sending a Yahoo! Mail with an attachment, always explain the content of the attachment in the main body of the email message.
A brief explanation will encourage the recipient to click and open the attachment to view the HTML document.
Bear in mind that many email services automatically block HTML attachments because of the security risk of opening HTML files, which can contain viruses, phishing scams or open Web pages with inappropriate content.
If you want to share a favorite Web page with a friend or contact, include a hyperlink to the Web page rather than a saved copy as an HTML attachment.

Yahoo Mail is a popular webmail service that allows people to create their own email username and have it hosted by the Yahoo network. In addition to providing fast and reliable email, Yahoo Mail also allows you to send and receive large attachments. If you use Yahoo Mail, and are having issues opening attachments, there are several easy troubleshooting steps you can try to get your Yahoo Mail attachments.

Sign out of Yahoo and clear your cache. Since Yahoo! needs to access your cache to keep you logged in and to communicate with your computer when downloading attachments, a full cache can prevent Yahoo Mail from opening attachments correctly. Go to your browser's "Tools" or "Internet Options" menu and then select the "Delete Temporary Internet files" command to delete your cache. Reload the page. lf you have had Yahoo Mail open for a long time, the page may have gone idle, and you may not be able to access your attachment. Press the "Reload" (F5) button and then log back in to your account. Ensure that the attachment is not corrupt. If the sender did not finish uploading before they hit "Send" or there was an error during the upload, the file may be corrupted. Ask the sender to re-attach the file and send it again. Check the file format. Some formats are proprietary and will not open unless specific programs are installed on your computer. For instance, if you are sent an AAC file, you will not be able to open it unless iTunes is installed on your computer. Hope this helps.

To read the attachment associatedn programm must be installed on your Laptop. Also please check Antivirus setting. I think Antivirus may be blocking attachement file to be open.

You security setting in your mail is not setup to receive attachments. When you setup a email program by default your email is setup to blocked attachment. On the email out make sure you don't have a comma instead of period.

are you able to attach files to your mail in yahoo in your computer...??

I am having trouble opening attachments!!! Please advise!!