Occasionally our users experience temporary, transient issues in Yahoo! Mail, and the error message "Temporary Error 8" indicates one of these. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause. Our engineers have already been notified that an error has occurred and are looking into it. We have found that most of these issues are resolved in a few minutes to a few hours. Please try again in a few hours and your mail should be available.

In the meantime, the troubleshooting steps below may completely resolve the issue:

1. Sign in to Yahoo! Mail.
2. Click the Options menu in the upper-left corner, and select Mail Options from the pull-down list.
3. On the left side of the page, click General.
4. To save your changes, close the Options tab (hover over the tab and click the X that appears).

Note: In the steps above, you don't need to change any settings within the General menu; the action of clicking Save changes within the General menu may fix the issue on the backend.

Temporary errors can also be caused by browsers that are not supported by Yahoo! Mail. Ensure that you are using one of the following browsers and operating systems:

Windows XP, Vista, and 7:

• Internet Explorer 8.0 and newer
• Firefox version 3.5 and newer
• Safari version 4.0 and newer
• Google Chrome version 5 and newer

Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5, and 10.6

• Firefox version 3.5 and newer
• Safari version 4.0 and newer
• Google Chrome version 5 and newer

If you continue to experience issues after trying the steps above, let us know by filling out this form.