New in Yahoo! Mail – Find old email easily

There’s nothing more annoying than losing an email. We do have a very powerful search engine in Yahoo! Mail but sometimes the phrase you’re searching on is so vague and general that you end up trawling through masses of messages, even after you’ve filtered your inbox with a search.

Our engineers have delivered a great solution to this. Now, when I type a term (“golf” in the example below), not only do I get the mass of messages matching that term in the inbox view but I also see a breakdown of all matching emails categorised by sender, folder, date, attachment type and message status.

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So now, if I’m looking for the photos my dad sent me from our last game of golf, I just type search for “golf”, then hop to the category box and look up emails from my dad as the sender. Or, I could choose only photo attachment types. Either way, I find what I’m looking for, double quick.

Happy email finding
Jon, Yahoo! Mail Team

No Responses to “New in Yahoo! Mail – Find old email easily”

  1. Max Dahlgren says:

    Looks pretty easy

  2. R Y Raisch says:

    Can no longer forward messages easily. Cannot access Address book & automatically send addresses to my Address bar. Switching back and forth between two pages to copy addresses into address bar is a hassle. Have been using Yaboo for 8 years, have addressed this issue to you twice with no response and am thinking of looking elsewhere for satisfaction! Please, put the older, easier mail back.

  3. lee says:

    ‘Dear Sir or Madam, unfortunately i had to go to hospital in october 2005. I came out this january and i found my email account EMPTY without any email, pictures or souvenirs of the time before. Is there a possibility to%’ (clipped with Yahoo! Toolbar)

  4. david wynn-wilson says:

    In attempting to transfer Emails from my old account, there is no means of adding @tesco.net. Can this be provided?

  5. mandira mukherjee says:

    I have been using this account for last 7 years. But since Oct 25th 2007 all my mails in the mailbox are getting automatically deleted . I cannot pinpoint the problem . can you help????

    Have not yet recd any reply against my last mail. May be that mail got deleted too.

  6. lysette says:

    I want my old yahoo background back!!!!!!!!!!!

  7. Shubi says:

    Fantastic…..!!! It’s really a great achievement and very very good and convenient for those who love to use Yahoo..Congrats…!!!

  8. wicky says:

    actually i have found where i was looking a better place for chat and sending email to different friends in the world

  9. Peter Edwards says:

    Just sent reply to an E-Mail which showed up as unable to deliver,as it was urgent I phoned the recipient who said they had received it perfectly

  10. Patricia Huffell says:

    My daughter has been in Perth for two years and until the last couple of months we have had no problem with e-mails. Now she is regularly having her e-mails to me returned with a message saying they cannot be delivered. Why is this? She has suggested I ” reduce” my Spam level but I cannot see how to do this and frankly don’t really want to.

    Can you help please as I am not getting important messages from her about the family and forthcoming new baby

  11. Goreti atienoh says:

    its nice and faster but pliz i dont know where compose is i cant get it.so i cant send an e mail .

  12. Cajetan Ikuenobe says:

    would appreciate prompt response once i open my box

  13. G says:

    The old yahoo is much eassier to follow.. The new is not bold enough.

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