How to keep logged onto Yahoo mail?

This may be a deliberate security measure, to defend against what's known as a "http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/55720". For instance, that exploit has the potential for allowing someone else to send email through your Yahoo account, without either your knowledge or permission. One defense against that kind of thing is to force users to log in again whenever they want to use such a site, since the exploit doesn't know your password.

When you log in on one computer, It will log you off your most recent session on another computer. *shrug*

I have web hosting through Yahoo, and I have to log into it every damned time, even though it's set to Remember Me. And most of the time after re-typing my username and password, I'm prompted AGAIN for my password on the next page. It's happened to me on Mac, PC, Firefox, Explorer, Safari, etc. It's a Yahoo thing. I'm sure they pass off the inconvenience and non-user friendliness to security concerns.

This is totally anecdotal, of course, but I think that Yahoo Mail is just slightly wonky right now. I've been having similiar logging-in problems for about a month. For me it's on my cell phone, and all I have to do is go back to a previous page and try again and it "remembers" I'm logged in. Obviously this isn't necessarily an option in your case. (Also, for a couple of months now, whenever I add to my address book, Yahoo Mail forgets about all my other contacts. They're still there, but--for example--"mom" is no longer converted into my mom's email address when I hit Send. I have to open every one of my contacts, hit Edit and then Save, and all is well. Frustrating!) What I'm saying is, I don't think it has anything to do with you.

Are you required to log back in fully? Or is it just asking you for your password? I know that yahoo mail asks me for my password pretty frequently, but it remembers my yahoo ID (and I never have to provide my password for Flickr. Are my private photos less sensitive than my emails? I guess so).

It's a pain. It must do some good, because I find it aggravating as hell, even having to do it once per 24. Fortunately, I use opera and the Wand does all my password typing on any page it recognizes as a sign-in page, so it's just a click.... still, the delay quashes my flow. If you are not using something similar, Opera moderates this particular type of headache a little and may be a suitable antidote, short of finding the real problem.

Are you getting kicked out every 24 hours, or more frequently than that? If it's every 24 hours, then that's due to Yahoo expiring your login. I dont think there's anyway to avoid it. (I use Greasemonkey (on Firefox) with a script to automatically log in (such as http://labs.beffa.org/greasemonkey/) as a workaround. )

I've actually just canceled my sbc yahoo! internet service because they so radically f*cked up my password for my e-mail address. I've had the same Yahoo! e-mail address for 8 years, with the same password, and like Ian A.T., about a month ago it just...stopped logging me in. It also said that since I only had four of the SIX answers to the login identifier, and I couldn't tell them *both* the secret question and the secret answer, it would not reset my password. Five calls to Yahoo! and SBC Yahoo! later, I finally just cancelled all of it. It was a magnificently frustrating experience. All the addresses and e-mails in that old address are lost forever, but I can't help that. Google/G-mail and SBC's arch enemy Road Runner get my business now.

We're being asked for the password multiple times per email session. Not every 24 hours, more like every minute or two. I do strongly feel it's a yahoo problem, but wondered if anyone knew something we were missing, or was experiencing the same problem, or (really reaching here) was able to get Yahoo to address it....