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- Posted August 21st, 2007 at 4:01 pm by Ryan
- Categories: All-New Mail, General, Tips & Tutorials
There is a decent chance that many of you reading this found your way here from a link on the popular Yahoo! Experts Group known as “Y-Mail: Yahoo! Mail Users Group.” But just in case you didn’t, I feel compelled to return the favor (and maybe some of the traffic).
Billed as the “official” group for Yahoo! Mail, the “Y-Mail Group” (as it is often referred to) is moderated by 5 very dedicated users, and boasts enrollment of more than 3,000. With new discussions starting all the time you will always find some fresh conversations, and with so many experienced Mail users you are bound to find some great user tips.
Have you ever wondered if there was a way to use Yahoo! Mail Beta from home, but use the original version at work, and assumed you would have to constantly hassle with switching back and forth? Someone else already has and posted some advice. Maybe you want to designate Yahoo! Mail as your default email client within Windows. One of the users found the Yahoo! FAQ page with the detailed instructions and posted the link.
Just don’t forget, the Y-Mail Group is still a user group, and is run entirely by Yahoo! users. With that being the case the opinions expressed there are not necessarily the opinions of Yahoo!
Ryan Knight
Community Manager
Yahoo! Mail
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August 22nd, 2007 at 2:48 am
Dear Sirs at the yahoo!
I’ve received the following letter. Please let me know whether it has been sent from you or a hacker:
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Yahoo!” Add to Address Book Add Mobile Alert
Subject: **NOTIFICATION** YOUR E-MAIL WAS SELECTED** CONGRATULATIONS!**.
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:37:12 -1200
Yahoo! Inc.
Customer Care.
701 First Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94089.
USA.
This is to inform you that you have won prize money ……..
CONTENT REMOVED
………….PERSONAL INFORMATION
1. Full Name:……………………………………
2. Nationality/Religion:………………………….
3. Contact Address:………………………………
4. Telephone Number:……………………………..
5. Fax Number:…………………………………..
6. Date of Birth:………………………………..
7. Occupation……………………………………
8. Age………………………………………….
9. Sex………………………………………….
10. Alternative E-mail address:……………………
11. Next of Kin of the Beneficiary incase…………..
CONTENT REMOVED
August 27th, 2008 at 10:50 am
checkout…scam o matic…big help determining if scam or what
August 22nd, 2007 at 5:47 am
Hi TA Quang Dong,
I believe that’s a fake. Why would you win a lottery from Yahoo but the reply address not be a Yahoo address. Also I’ve gotten a lot of these saying lots of different things and it always says they’re in the UK. Last, I don’t think Yahoo would ask you for all that information in an email. No respectable company asks for that kind of information in an email.
August 22nd, 2007 at 6:25 am
When are you going to implement address book categories as in the old Yahoo Mail?
Categories could be implemented as sub-folders within the Contacts folder.
There is no easy way of picking a list of contacts to send email from filtered by the contacts.
I may not want to mail every one in the list, but I do want the list to choose from to be filtered by the category.
Robert
August 22nd, 2007 at 10:46 am
Hi TA Quang Dong,
Christina is absolutely right. You should not reply to that message and should instead use the “SPAM” button within Yahoo! Mail to report it.
Robert,
Thanks for the feedback.
-Ryan
August 22nd, 2007 at 3:46 pm
It would be great to have the ability to save more than attachment at a time. A simple button to “save all” could do the trick. This feature would greatly improve Yahoo to compete with other email clients.
August 22nd, 2007 at 8:28 pm
Hi Ryan,
Did you know that in the beta, when you click the spam button, it no longer adds the email address of the spammer to the “blocked” list. I tried this with the beta and saw the count of the “blocked” list never changed but then I switched back to the original yahoo mail and I clicked the spam link on another message and it added the address of the spammer to the “blocked” list.
Dave
August 22nd, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Hi Dave,
Thanks for the note. I’ll pass that along to the folks managing our anti-spam efforts.
-Ryan
August 23rd, 2007 at 12:53 pm
The anti-spam effort seems to have become lax lately. Recently I get about 10 people a day from Africa who want to send me millions, if only I give them my bank account number. Can’t you get these to go straight to spam?
The spam filtering used to be great. Now it seems like it doesn’t work so well.
August 23rd, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Hi Dave,
I’ve confirmed that clicking on the spam button within Beta does in fact block that sender, however it does not display that name within your blocked list. Our product folks are looking into making that process better.
Thanks!
Ryan
August 23rd, 2007 at 3:25 pm
The tip for using the yahoo mail beta in one place and the “classic” elsewhere does not seem to work with Atralian yahoo! mail (mail.yahoo.com.au).
Cheers
Geoff
August 23rd, 2007 at 9:52 pm
I like choosing my own color scheme on My Yahoo. Why not give some continuation of color scheme to the mail page. Also, would be nice to be able to choose colors for content boxes. I am a black, gray, charcoal, tan, (not flashy colors like that yellow. A light tan or light silver would be nice instead of that “ugg” yellow.
August 25th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
How do I get out of Yahoo mail beta and back to Yahoo mail classic?
August 26th, 2007 at 11:17 pm
I WANT TO GET LAST UPDATE TO MY MAIL BOX
August 28th, 2007 at 10:15 am
Hey my peeps ill get 2 u!!!!!!!
September 21st, 2007 at 4:36 pm
well the best email you could have is yahoo so get yahoo email forget about aol gmail that is not good get yahoo mail right now and you will have the best email ever so goto http://www.yahoo.com right now and i mean it please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 23rd, 2007 at 10:56 pm
hope this is not confusing? at my group southern indiana gpaa on yahoo.com my e-mail ronau@yahoo.com
PS I would like to include on this site new version 0f 360 degrees THANKS HOPE YOU CAN HELP! RON ronau27@yahoo.com
November 30th, 2007 at 12:41 am
My company blocks yahoo mail, or URLs with the word ‘mail.yahoo.com’ .. how will i access my mail ?
i am able to see my hotmail inbox by using ‘mail.live.com’..
Any option like this for yahoo mail??
November 30th, 2007 at 12:41 am
My company blocks yahoo mail, or URLs with the word ‘mail.yahoo.com’ .. how will i access my mail ?
i am able to see my hotmail inbox by using ‘mail.live.com’..
Any option like this for yahoo mail??
December 1st, 2007 at 2:11 am
my name is anila ahmed & iwant a friend in life.n hobby is books picture & my best actor is shahruk khan,,,
December 1st, 2007 at 2:14 am
Full Name:……………………………………anila ahmed
2. Nationality/Religion:…………………………islam
3. Contact Address:………………………………pidc house khi
4. Telephone Number:……………………………2416787
5. Fax Number:…………………………………5656184
6. Date of Birth:………………………………02.02.1988
7. Occupation……………………………………
8. Age…………………………………………18
9. Sex…………………………………………
10. Alternative E-mail address:……………………
11. Next of Kin of the Beneficiary incase…………..
December 1st, 2007 at 11:29 pm
does anyone know how to get the ip address from an e-mail?i got a nasty gram and would love to know who sent it…..any help would be greatful all i have is the e-mail address……thank you
December 3rd, 2007 at 12:48 pm
My auntmia is a yahoo user.
December 9th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
For some reason the new email system does not work well for me (i.e. it’s very slow, it doesn’t let me delete any messages, and it displays an incomplete contact list with just the names and not the addresses). Could this be due to the fact that I use a Windows 2000 OS? Anyway, I would like very much to revert back to the classic email version, but I click on the “return to classic” format button and nothing happens. Can anybody help me out with this? Thanks you.
December 18th, 2007 at 7:24 am
i like this new biolog then the old one.
December 18th, 2007 at 7:26 am
this email is weake this web page should be ashbe of there sheft.
December 19th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
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December 22nd, 2007 at 7:54 am
Dear yahoo you’ve been upgradeing for more then ayear so what is this about you haveing a b-day and poor service on it don’t you think you should fix things before moving to bigger and better service frist
January 8th, 2008 at 5:20 am
I am very new to this. I just signed on to yahoo mail. How do I tell someone how to email me their.
July 10th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
cool site , thanks
July 10th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
I am always on the move; travelling to the Uk, germany, china etc.. I am a yahoo plus customer and since 3 weeks I have changed cell phones, from blackberry to HTC Touch Diamond and now I can no longer pop my email to my HTC because HTC only supports Imap instead of POP3. I have also tried downloading yahoo go this too does work on the HTC touch diamond. This is for me a nightmare. I have forwading it through gmail but this is not alway accuret. Sometimes it syncs and other times not for days! I have never had problems with my Yahoo plus mail account. should this problem not be resolved soon I ill be forced to open another email account which allows me to sync my mail on my HTC p3700.
I have chatted with a “live customer service agent” but Santi could not help me. Santi was very quick to answer and Polite.
So, here I am wondering if this comment, blogging will help.
I hope this issue will and can be resolved very soon.
Regards,
Sharon
August 24th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
3yGood idea.8t I compleatly disagree with last post . vpp
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