By now you have definitely heard Monday’s announcement about the release of the all-new Yahoo! Mail. As you might imagine, the day something like that happens is not only a big deal for all the folks (lots!) who have spent time working on it (anywhere from weeks to YEARS), but it is also a really big deal for everyone here. To commemorate such a momentous occasion we were treated to the biggest Liam ever. No, not the obese Liam we “rolled” out when storage limits were eliminated, but a giant inflatable Liam! Combine that with inflatable couches and it was a purple extravaganza.
Thanks to the photo trickery of Court Mast our founders, Jerry Yang and David Filo, appear almost as large as the giant balloon.
Despite how it may have looked to some, giant Liam did not actually pull a ‘Stay-Puft‘, and stomp anyone. Meanwhile others enjoyed the pseudo comfort of inflated couches and chairs.
I’ll try to be back soon with another post offering some tips and info based on some of the questions that we have been getting. In the meantime I’ll address the two that seem to be among the most common.
Q) How can you tell if you are out of Beta?
A) If you are still unsure about whether or not you are actually out of beta, just take a look at the Yahoo! Mail logo in the upper left corner of the browser window. If the “BETA” is gone, you have already been migrated over.
Q) If I’m still in Beta, when will I be switched?
A) We are in the process of rolling it out to everyone, but because of number of users it could be anywhere from this week, to as long as six weeks. We’re trying to get it done as quickly as possible, but there are a lot of servers so please be patient.
Ryan K
Community Manager
Yahoo! Mail
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Yahoo! Mail is the most perfect Web Mail out there. I am thinking what if we had an option in the email where you could see where the email comes from?
I mean most of us know how to find the IP address of the sender by translating the email’s header and track it down to find the ISP and country where the email was originaly sent from.
But how cool could it be if you could just open up your Yahoo! Mail and see who is sending you what from where! This make the whole email thing a lot safer and more legitimate.
Imagine loging into your email and see a little country flag next to the email address of the sender with information about their IP address and ISP (eg. AOL, Rogers, Sympatico, etc..) Imagin the possibilities!!!! Spammers would hate such an option. You can also tell who is emailing you from where, people can’t lie about where they are chatting from,…. safer internet, safer emailing? you bet!
Thanks,
The New Yahoo! Mail is fantastic. The “no storage” limit is also a blast! Yahoo! did an outstanding job!
Sorry, the all-new Yahoo! Mail does not support your browser.
I switched back and now I’m not getting any mail
Thank you very much for your info, and i have a question.
How i can have the new version of Yahho mail?
Thanks for your replay and
Mary Christmas and hapy New Year
Christos Tsikoudis
been have problems with your service I think you should fix your service up before starting new things
I love yahoo suely I do. I started with them form
the ground up and I would like to ask what going
on too people jump me on the microsoft trun for
2.some miollion dallor and I think that is just so plane.
Because is one hell of a guy and the intent is all
I have ask bill gate what he do for living?
I real should get paid for this you think yahoo!
I am experiencing the same problem as Jerry. (Login error 2146823281). He says he can access his mail in html from the Yahoo front page. Excuse me for being a Dork, but how do I get to Yahoo Front page? Can you access attachments from there?
Roy (South Africa)
The new Yahoo Mail beta hangs up Mozilla Firefox –Windows Task Manager shows 95-99%. I’ve never seen that before for a continuous reading. Something is very wrong there. Cannot get any mail, period.
I’ve had Yahoo mail forever and have been loving it up until a couple of days ago. I added another email account and somehow it switched both my old and new account over to the new mail system which I had tried then switched back to classic.
My problem is that none of the icons on my mail screen respond…the return to classic button, reply, spam, delete, new mail…nothing works so I’m totally dead in the water. I can only view my emails nothing else. Then the fun part…how to get help??? I tried submitting an email directly to customer support..no response. Tried calling the phone number down in the Bay Area…no luck.
I just want my email back…I’m desperate!
I still don’t have my new yahoo mail interface yet. Still in beta…..
I wonder how long it is going to take to roll out the production version to everyone. Its been more than 2 weeks since this announcement was made.
Can’t wait to get my hands on the new version. The search functionality on the beta is really bad.
Hey dudes – surf’s up in CA but not the new mail. It’s been almost a month since the announcement, and the Beta and old mail is choking. I know we have lotsa servers in CA and the left coast – lotta people out here, like 40 million. Would be nice if we got an upgrade soon.
Gotta go – good swells and warm water
I am excited about the rollout. Wow, now we can get rid of Beta. SMS here you come….whoops…it’s only been 18 days. I guess Yahoo rolls(out) ssslllooowwwlllyyy.
I still don’t have my new yahoo mail interface yet. Still in beta…..
I wonder how long it is going to take to roll out the production version to everyone. Its been more than 2 weeks since this announcement was made.
Can’t wait to get my hands on the new version. The search functionality on the beta is really bad.
how to switch to Beta Mail?
Can we SMS to any mobile number in the world using this service?
The new user interface to Yahoo Mail is very nice. I don’t want to take away your thunder but we need to be honest here…. this is a facelift, the back-end performing all the work hasn’t changed in many years. No IMAP support and still no support for the POP3 “LAST” command. Also, the SPAM filter seems to be barely working these days.
And why did it take so long to roll out what is basically a reworked version of the Oddpost mail application that Yahoo bought in 2004? (http://www.siliconbeat.com/entries/2005/06/27/behold_the_new_yahoo_mail.html)
I suggest that you fix the SPAM filter and add support for your own domain (like Google Apps). I’ve always liked Yahoo services, but I gotta go with the service provider that is giving the most for the money (whether that be for free or at cost) and right now that is Google. The Google Apps SPAM filter is over 99% accurate and they support me using my own domain. I’m routing for Yahoo to pull ahead though, and this new UI on the mail is a good step forward.
How can you consider the new Yahoo Mail to be production quality when it works with such a limited subset of browsers? The quality that I’ve always like about Yahoo, in general, was its lightweight implementation. The new Yahoo and Mail layouts seem to have forgotten that. Content should be King, but, unfortunately, it appears that Yahoo is more interested in the bling. Too bad.
Hello,
I’m still in beta, which is ok. What we need now is IMAP (standards-based) access to Yahoo Mail Plus. Nested folders would be nice, but can wait.
Jim
Improvements take time. Good job guys! Keep up the good work!
thank you
I tried Yahoo mail beta early this year, and it was H0RRRRRIBLY slow. You guys call it ultra fast now, so I suppose you worked on that? Did you run it on an older pc with lots of windows crap slowing down the computer (i.e. a regular pc)? Tell me what exactly is faster and what is slower? And uh… be honest guys
new interface is good but it takes very long time to load if I’m using slow connection. Is there any chance yahoo! will add a check box asking if one would use classic or new Yahoo! interface during that session?
for dekappy:
I had the same problem when I downloaded IE7. For some reason my firewall security settings were changed and the firewall would not allow any cookies. I reset the settings to allow cookies and everything works now.
I have not cared for the Beta version because of the time it takes to load with dial-up service, which I have to use in some locations, and because one of my computers runs W98 and doesn’t have specs to handle it. Will I no longer be able to use my older computer or dialup services?
Use a tab instead of space(s) between the three fields in:
“127.0.0.1 a248.e.akamai.net #yahoo bugs”
I used the help from ‘someone who cares’ and added the line “127.0.0.1 a248.e.akamai.net #yahoo bugs” in the hosts-file (Open with Notepad; remove the extension .txt. in directory c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts. Yahoo!Mail starts without any ads, fast and neat! Please read http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ for repressing most of all ads, stats, counters, spam, malware, etc! It works well on Windows XP
I tried the yahoo mail beta…stepped back down to use the previous version…more simple to use; beta version text is nearly microscopic
Help in switching back to the older version…..plz…plz…plz..somebody plz help
any chance you guys can add IMAP support to Yahoo Mail Plus?
How can i switch back to the old yahoo??????? The new one is driving me crazy!
email and news and comments and photos
I still don’t understand the rationale for the new Yahoo! email. The old one was working just fine. One thing I don’t like about the new one is that it’s so much like Outlook Express and it doesn’t display graphics attachments in a way that you can really see the whole thing. Why fix something that isn’t broken?
Been using this email account since 1997. Now I can’t access it with the changes. Not sure what’s going on!
Great, Beta is now official. I tried the new and improved format three times, each time I’ve returned to “classic”. Reminds me of the reformulation of coca-cola. Whining luddite? Possibly, but I do use the latest technology on an ADSL line, and absolutely hate the “new” yahoo mail format even when it opens everything properly.
In one word – Clunky. Since when did the K.I.S.S. technique fall into such disrepute? I’m not against change, I’m against complexity and disempowerment.
I believe it a shame that a “new and improved” mail format is clunky when compared side by side to the old, dated, very functional “classic” format.
Great job, can’t wait to see what yahoo will transform from functional to dysfunctional in the future – but I’m sure multiple firms will buy the advertising! Without the advertising, it might actually be worthwhile! Novel, huh!
As usual, it looks like I’m going to be amongst the last to see it. Been that way since the Beta started. I’m especially concerned about a post or two up there referring to it not working with Mozilla/Thunderbird since I use Seamonkey.
Please give me the directions to switch back to ‘classic mail’-Tell me what I need to click on or what?’ BETA is not working for me at all–I DO NOT have the time to deal with it–Thank You so much-Somebody Please Help Me–I am desparate!!!!
How can i get rid of that stuip avatar on my mail and yahoo messenger i hate thoose stuip things want it blank with no avatars period. thank you
I switched to the new Yahoo mail page and could not locate my address book. I found contacts but not the address book. I prefer address book so I can click on all receipients for the intended e-mail.