Let Yahoo! Mail Fetch Your News for You
- Posted October 23rd, 2007 at 2:20 pm by Ryan
- Categories: General, Tips & Tutorials
By now I’m sure most of you have seen the “All Feeds” link over in the left side of the New Yahoo! Mail (it was there in the Beta too), but judging from the fluctuations in the subscriber numbers of this very blog I’m guessing that many of you are not yet using it (or at the very least you aren’t it using for this blog). 
Just as a little background, RSS, which is short for “Really Simple Syndication” (some people prefer to call it “Rich Site Summary”), lets you subscribe to RSS feeds from web sites that provide frequently-changing content, such as news, weather, sports, and stock reports. When you subscribe to an RSS feed, updates are “fetched” automatically. Many of you may already use this on your My Yahoo page, but you can also get them straight into Yahoo! Mail.
Even better you can click on feed name and a new tab will open in Mail just for that feed. If there are new items in a given feed the RSS symbol will display as orange 
, and if there is nothing new to check out it shows as grey 
.
If you have already added RSS feeds to My Yahoo, those should automatically appear in your “All Feeds” area in Mail, but if you want to add more it is very easy. Let’s try it out by adding the this blog to your feeds, shall we? Click “Add” and a big “Add Content” box will open. Now for any other feed you would have to do a search in the box, but if you look just below the box you will see an option to “Add the Yahoo Mail Beta Blog” (just ignore that it says Beta … I’m getting that fixed).
That’s all there is to it. Now the feed will appear in your Mail and also be added the next time you check back at My Yahoo (ahhh … bask in the “synergy“).
Now if explanation isn’t quite clear enough there is also a great set of Tutorials that our Help team has provided. Take a look at the tutorial to get the step by step details on:
- Overview of RSS
- Adding and Removing RSS Feeds
- Saving RSS Articles
- Forwarding RSS Articles
- Changing the Text Size and Font
There you have it. Be sure to subscribe to this feed so you can always know where to find the blog and when new stuff is available.
Ryan
Community Manager
Yahoo! Mail
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- 32 Comments
October 23rd, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Actually i could use the feed reader if only Yahoo remembered the width of the columns which I need to resize every time…I have a pretty large screen and I like to avoid scrolling whenever I can. It’s just not comfortable enough for me on a regular basis.
Maybe if this can’t be done with drag and rop then why not add some predefined width in the mail options?
October 23rd, 2007 at 3:00 pm
I’m not a big fan of the synergy between My Yahoo and the reader. I’ve subscribed to tons of feeds in my reader. Unfortunately this makes my yahoo page ugly and slow because it’s trying to load all of the feeds. I think there should be an option to not include a feed that is in the reader on My Yahoo.
October 23rd, 2007 at 3:00 pm
How do I get the Los Angles Newspaper data on my list of news etc .???
October 23rd, 2007 at 3:17 pm
Yahoo going(?doing)really great…with all feeds and mail Blog..its very easy now we need nor go to google mail search to know things fast..keep it up..
October 23rd, 2007 at 4:41 pm
I think the concept of feed reading integration with mail is very natural, but the current implementation is barely usable (if at all), with no ways of organization or control of the experience. Even the scroll bars within the feed reader ignore your browser settings for the mouse wheel.
Hopefully you guys have something cooking along the lines of Google Reader or Bloglines and integrate it properly.
October 23rd, 2007 at 9:21 pm
Appreciate your hard work, but I’d love to be able to eliminate the reader altogether.
October 24th, 2007 at 4:25 am
It would be nice if the RSS new news indicator flag actually worked when you leave Yahoo! Mail up for long periods of time. The only time it shows “new” feeds correctly is when Y!M is first brought up. Thereafter, one has to poke the RSS news button to see if there are new feeds, and there usually are! Don’t worry, this was broken in Beta also. Wasn’t fixed there either.
October 24th, 2007 at 4:38 am
Great idea, but I cannot add every feed I use. Why not allow to enter feed URL manually?
I also agree with other commenters: column width problem, controlling when to refresh every feed, showing only unread articles, organizing groups of feeds (reading by content similarity), wheel support, and finally SPEED!
October 24th, 2007 at 5:06 am
I just wish that Daemon Mailer would quit or find new work. It is becomming increasingly annoying that he says he can’t find an address, when I sent the message using reply. Obviously there is a good oddress out there, because I received mail from it. I have to resort to the antiquated and even MORE annoying mail service from my local phone company to send mail to that address.
Please Fire Daemon.
Thank you
October 24th, 2007 at 6:42 am
I love and use the RSS feeds all the time!
But please please, when will you give us POP access for free? Come on Gmail has it for free and will give me peace of mind that my mail is also on my local machine…
RT
October 24th, 2007 at 7:04 am
I’d really like it if there was an integrated podcast aggregator as well.
October 24th, 2007 at 7:11 am
I partially second RT’s request for free POP, but my main request is IMAP free or paid for… Google has just released IMAP for mobiles…. IMAP please.
October 24th, 2007 at 7:23 am
Another vote for the option to turn off RSS in the mail interface …
October 24th, 2007 at 7:28 am
OK, Yahoo!, it’s time to step up. Not only does Gmail offer free POP, they offer free IMAP to everyone. See link below.
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/10/23/gmail-gets-imap/
October 24th, 2007 at 10:22 am
Yeah, IMAP!
Give us both POP/IMAP what’s the big deal? I already see enough ads on the right pane and I’m fine with it because Yahoo Mail is a great product.
I prefer YahooMail over Gmail as my primary email.
Please make this great product even better!
October 24th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
In response to Matt’s comments about feeds added in Mail cluttering up his My Yahoo:
I’ll pass along those frustrations, but there is a workaround. My Yahoo offers users to create multiple “pages”, so if you only add new feeds from the My Yahoo side you can choose if those feeds are added to your main page or other pages. Your main page remains clutter free, and you can now have endless feeds in Mail. You can see some more details about pages on the My Yahoo beta blog
http://myyblog.com/blog/2007/07/03/my-yahoo-the-sequel/
-Ryan
October 24th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
I’ll also pass along the feedback about persistent column widths and the fact that the icon color doesn’t update when new content arrives.
-Ryan
October 24th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
i want this yahoo to be canceled how do i go about doing this
October 25th, 2007 at 6:09 am
I am interested on the world of contacting people and comunication, I love work around the world , contact different peoplewith different languages, way of thinking, behavior, costumes….love the world.
October 25th, 2007 at 6:35 am
Appreciate your hard work, but I’d love to be able to eliminate the reader altogether.
October 25th, 2007 at 8:46 am
I have played the piano for one year and I am trying to start a band can you find me some. I need pro’s thank you.
October 25th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Is it there a way to import my OMPL in it, so I can at least try it? Otherwise is not of much interest for a feed junkie like me.
Thanks and keep the great work.
October 25th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
Well, well, well, Gmail has just released IMAP for free. WHY CAN’T YAHOO?
I cannot understand why Yahoo doesn’t listen to its users. Slowly, one by one, we will leave and use Gmail because they provide many features for free.
Also, Yahoo’s RSS reader isn’t as nice as Google’s.
Thanks.
October 26th, 2007 at 11:58 am
please i would like to know how can i find new hand painted artists
October 26th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
I have tried to subscribe to a feed, but it will not show up in the My RSS feeds list in mail. However, it does appear on my yahoo page.
How can I get it in the feed list?
October 27th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
toi can tim trang wed nay?
October 27th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
toi can tim tranng wed nay?
November 1st, 2007 at 12:27 am
i start recently yahoo7 services from my normal old yahoo services .but i am finding difficultay to send a mail to other person there a message comming that missing a compent or connection problem
November 2nd, 2007 at 10:54 am
I am truly wondering if anyone from Yahoo even reads these comments. I’m not expecting a flowery email thanking me for saying something. It would just be nice if someone asked about a specific feature (PODCAST AGGREGATOR) someone from Yahoo would drop them a little line. Oh well. I’m a power user now. Maybe I’ll send an email.
November 3rd, 2007 at 2:50 pm
I think the real problem with all this communication stuff is that you really haven’t done a good job of
communicating. No sooner did a lot of us switch to Beta you announce that Beta is obsolete.
So I’m, I think, presumably switched into the new new email, but what exactly does it give us? Messengering capabilities I don’t want? What else?
RSS?
I think you have to be clear why you switched us still again, and in a series of short sentences, not piecemeal, why it’s better.
Communication’s people should be able to do this.
November 6th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
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5.00 a.m = Page harinya udah standby di morning
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seterusnya sekulah
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I love u my parents
November 27th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
I’ve tried using Customer Service with this issue, but after coming full circle with automated responses, I’ll post this here instead. Lately some of my RSS feeds are disappearing, reappearing and self-resurecting. I trimmed the list down to three feeds that I like: FoodNetwork, LeastICouldDo and Yahoo!MailBlog. A week ago, I looked at my Inbox and Yahoo!MailBlog was no longer listed under my feeds. That was Sunday night on my laptop at home. Monday morning on my desktop at work, Yahoo!MailBlog was back under the feeds, and then disappeared an hour later (different location, different machine, different ISP). This kept happening both at home and at work. Then a feed I had added the week before and deleted came back! VerizonWireless keeps readding itself to my feeds. I think the RSS feeds have gone mad!