Alert: Rendering problem in Yahoo Mail Classic

There appears to be an incredibly serious but thankfully not common rendering problem in Yahoo Mail Classic. How serious? Take a look at these two emails that were affected:



The first is a TigerDirect email from Sept. 10, which is the first day that I saw evidence of a problem. And the second is a Chadwick’s email from Sept. 12. I know the screenshots make it impossible to see the fine details, but it’s easy to see that images—especially those toward the bottoms of these emails—were repeated several times. I also saw a PetSmart email from Sept. 10 that was affected, but not nearly so dramatically.

At first I thought these were just horrible I-just-ran-over-my-foot-with-the-lawnmower mistakes, but then I got an email from Allison Keeley, who said that she experience this problem with a client’s email and with a Classmates.com email.

I’m trying to get more details about the extent of the problem and how to fix it. If anyone has any insights into this issue, please comment below or email me at chad@emailexperience.org.