topic Re: E mail verification in Email

E mail verification

JMD1886 — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:45:41 GMT

Type username and password for Yahoo e mail......then get told verification code sent to....the e mail address I'm trying to sign into.....any ideas other than ringing.

Re: E mail verification

jayach — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:48:50 GMT

What exactly does it say? It may be that your email has been blocked by Yahoo.

Re: E mail verification

Mark39 — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:54:57 GMT

@JMD1886 wrote:

Type username and password for Yahoo e mail......then get told verification code sent to....the e mail address I'm trying to sign into.....any ideas other than ringing.

Yahoo Mail? Or Sky Yahoo Mail?

The verification code for Sky Yahoo Mail is sent by text message, not email.

Re: E mail verification

JMD1886 — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:03:25 GMT

It says we have sent a verification code to your e mail address...the e mail address shown is the e mail address I'm trying to sign in to....must be yahoo mail because it sends it to e mail rather than text.....I view it through the sky.com website though.

Re: E mail verification

Mark39 — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 19:02:35 GMT

@JMD1886 if your email address ends with @yahoo.co.uk or com, that's a Yahoo Mail account.

Re: E mail verification

JMD1886 — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 20:02:14 GMT

It ends in sky.com

Re: E mail verification

Mark39 — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 20:21:59 GMT

That's a Sky Yahoo email account then. But I'm confused then for the reason I mentioned before. Only the Recovery Code is sent to your email address.

Could this be a SkyID login rather than Sky Yahoo Mail?

Re: E mail verification

JMD1886 — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 07:37:43 GMT

Here's what it says.

Verify your e mail

So that we can keep your account secure, we've sent a 6 digit code to:

followed by the e mail address I'm trying to access that ends in sky.com

Re: E mail verification

caesarome — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 08:39:48 GMT

That's odd as the verification code is only sent to a mobile via a text message so is not sent to an email address.

Do you have the recovery code that you can use to turn this off and get access to your account ?

Re: E mail verification

Mark39 — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 08:55:05 GMT

@caesarome wrote:

That's odd as the verification code is only sent to a mobile via a text message so is not sent to an email address.

Do you have the recovery code that you can use to turn this off and get access to your account ?

@JMD1886 I've not come across this before.

I think, as @jayach indicated, this must be some sort of intervention by Yahoo.

I don't see any alternative to phoning Sky I'm afraid (not Yahoo, they definitely won't help you, even if they're involved somehow). I'm sceptical that Sky will know what's going on too, but you've got to start somewhere. Let us know how you get on.

Re: E mail verification

JMD1886 — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 10:06:00 GMT

No recovery code.....will keep this updated....luckily it isn't my main e mail.