Next release…up!
A new release of Yahoo! Mail beta is now here, filled with upgrades pulled straight from *your* feedback. Here’s what’s new:
• We’re betting you won’t see the “Loading Message…” text in the Reading Pane much more, because messages load much faster now.
• Spell check, enhanced for this release, now also works on Firefox. Phinally!
• Yahoo! Mail beta now works with the IE7 beta.
• You made noise for peace and quiet in the Inbox. So, we lifted the animation from ads running along the right side of your Mail window. Ads still tell you their story, it’s just more balanced now with your task at hand. Does this make your Mail experience a little more central library, a little less Grand Central? Perhaps.
• Since quality’s all about attention to detail, we zeroed in on some small advances:
1) Clicking “Subject” or “From” now sorts by A-Z first, instead of starting with Z-A. Makes sense!
2) “Select All” now appears in the “More Actions” and right-click menus.
3) You can now see the size of attachments in the Reading Pane and message window headers.
4) And you can now print RSS posts.
• Try this: collapse and expand the “My Folders” list by clicking the blue triangle next to it. See your folders? Hide your folders. See them. Hide them.
• Ever get hung up waiting for a Compose tab to open? Starting a new message is now faster in Internet Explorer, and will get even faster across browsers in our next release.
• Check out the new Contacts layout in this version, and the new way of creating distribution lists. Our very next release will see further polish in Contacts.
• User feedback informed us that you didn’t know you could use Ctrl and Shift to select multiple messages. You can! Here’s how:
- To select any number of different messages, press Ctrl and click each message. To select messages in a sequence, press Shift and click on the first and last message. We mention this right up front now, when you first delete or move a message.
We roll out new releases over the course of a few weeks, so if you’re not seeing these changes just yet, sit tight – they’ll make it to your farm soon! And as always, there’s more to come. Keep talking to us about what’s working and not, and about what you’d like to see! We’re listening.
With open ears,
The Yahoo! Mail Beta team
One Inbox, Multiple Perspectives…
- Posted May 18th, 2006 at 4:05 pm by HuongT
- Categories: General, New Stuff, Tips & Tutorials
We’re busy putting the finishing touches on our next release. Just waiting on Don, actually. In the meantime, we thought we’d pipe up and show you what a cinch it is to re-order messages so you can find what you want, quick.
Check out the title bar across the top of your Inbox. It looks like this: 
Clicking on the title bar shuffles where your emails are. It gives you options. Viewing options. And you can always click Received to go back to the default viewing option, which lists messages by date.
“I want to group my unread (new) messages at the top.” Same here. So we made it easy. Click the 
button. Boom – the most recent unopened email is listed first. Want to see your oldest unopened message at the top? Click again – done. But now the message you’ve been avoiding longest steps right to the front of the line. So… is this the right moment? To click it? Your call…
“I want to stack all the messages I flagged at the top of my Inbox.” Can-do. Click the flag header – 
. Again, the flagged email with the most recent date tops the list. Sensing a pattern? If you click the flag again, whoosh – flagged messages flip to the bottom of your Inbox, with the most recent listed last.
What about viewing all messages that have attachments? No problem. Click the paperclip. The first click, as usual, lists attachment-packed messages from newest to oldest. Click again and you’ll see oldest to newest.
From and Subject do the same thing when you click on them, listing all your messages A-Z (click) or Z-A (click again) by who sent them (From), or by what they’re about (Subject).
Above your Contacts, you’ve got a bar with similar functionality. By clicking the “Name” button, you can flip your contact list from A-Z to Z-A. And if you click the circling-arrows icon beside “Name” –
– you’ll switch from listing first names first to last names first. For example, go from Ben Hur to Hur, Ben. How’d you get his email anyway? Hur, Ben’s? That guy could sure drive a chariot.
We hope you’ll get clicking on these new ways of listing emails, even as we plot to give you more viewing options in the future. And thanks for your patience as Don finishes up on the next release.
Unflaggingly,
The Yahoo! Mail Beta team
Our Beta, Their Beta
We’re wrapping up a few remaining compatibility issues between Yahoo! Mail Beta and the new Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 Beta, and we’ll open up our Beta to their Beta towards the end of this month. Folks on the bleeding edge, please sit tight!
Thanks,
The Yahoo! Mail Beta team