What are Your Yahoo! Mail Stories?

October 25th, 2007 at 8:27 pm

I contacted a friend from my 25th high school reunion and e-mailed for months and discovered I was his high school dream girl! Thank goodness for e-mail as we would have never met as he is in Europe and I am in the US. I never dreamt we would ever keep in touch this way, but I am thankful for e-mail

October 26th, 2007 at 3:42 am

Thanks to e-mail i m in constant touch with my friends and quickly communicate with them

October 26th, 2007 at 3:56 am

Yahoo email blocks email products from the Online Wall Street Journal. Customer Service at WSJ advised me Yahoo ignored their complaints and those of hundreds of Yahoo users like me. The result is that the Online Wall Street Journal now advises its customers to switch email providers and not register with a Yahoo email address. I tried to contact Yahoo about this problem, but all I got were canned email responses.

October 26th, 2007 at 6:52 am

Yahoo mail has been my main address over the years. A little spam gets through but not so much that my address is useless like in hotmail. Also, the loading is faster than with gmail. It seems crisp, efficient, and reliable. Thank you.

October 26th, 2007 at 7:37 am

When we were dating, in a past decade, my now husband and I would email each other during the work day. It was before text and instant messaging. It was also before employers started cracking down on personal emails during work hours. We both, of course, had yahoo email addresses. One day my husband sent me a rather mushy email. Unfortunately, it went to a mutual friend rather than to me. My husband didn’t notice that he had selected the wrong email address from the address book. Our friend’s name and email address came right before mine in the alphabet. He forwarded the email to me, cc’d my sweetie, and included an “Uhhh . . . what’s this?” kind of message. Until that point no one in our group of friends knew that we were dating. Thanks to yahoo mail and a slip of the finger, we were outed as a couple.

October 26th, 2007 at 9:05 am

I was a ‘lead’ navigator on B-24 bombers during WW2, but I lost contact with our jolly crew, 3 of whom were killed. My bombardier was a real estate broker in Vancouver, Wash, I looked for all the crew members, couldn’t find any, so I looked him up on Yahoo search. I found him after 63 years, what a pleasure for both of us. Then we chatted for a few months on the phone, reminisced, he needed a serious operation…now at 84, I’m the last one of us still alive. Also, on Google Earth I found the tiny island where we were based…
pulau owi, indonesia…remnants of landing strips & buildings still show up. It was a typhus-voodoo island; no natives could survive on it, but we had an inoculation. Also I found out battered B-24 still sitting on a coral reef of pulau morotai, indonesia. It can be seen on the south east peninsula, but on Google Earth Maps. Roy

October 26th, 2007 at 10:08 am

I don’t know exactly when I started to use Yahoo! Mail, but it’s been a good choice. The mail functionality itself is not the most important factor, however. The integration of an address book, a calendar, appointments and a notebook made Yahoo! suitable for all my light office purposes.

Lately I noticed some problems, such as losing my filters and external e-mail addresses more than once. The new Yahoo! mail is way too slow to be of any use, but the classic Yahoo! mail is here to stay.

October 26th, 2007 at 3:31 pm

There has been a change in the e-mail page. I don’t like it. I can not change the font size or spell check or any of the other things I use to do. I have bad eye sight and I love to be able to make the words as big or small as I like. There is no color for the words eithr and I love to change the colors according to who and what country(Iraq or afghanistan) Please wont you chage it back to what it use to be for people like me who have trouble seeing. Thank you

October 26th, 2007 at 4:15 pm

I am so sorry I said “yes” to changing my email page — I can not see what is printed on the new one — it is much more confusing than when I first started using the computer at the age of 70 ! Please change me back to the old system !!!! PLEASE !! Helen with old eyes !!!!
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October 26th, 2007 at 10:42 pm

Ah yes, the good old days…I remember when Yahoo was the big fish out there. Now they can’t get anything right. Tell me, where did you go astray? Yahoo Mail is more highly deficient than ever. Instead of delivering email to my Inbox, any messages larger than 100k go directly to trash. When I ask support to help me out, they treat me like I don’t know what I’m talking about. They are really now known as Boohoo…

October 26th, 2007 at 10:56 pm

I remeber when for one shining moment, my Yahoo mail was true pleasure to use. It was during the YMail beta, but before they added in ads for paying customers.

Back then, despite an occasional slow down, I would browse through my mails easily and quickly. I liked it so much, I made it my primary e-mail address and did all my e-mail almost exclusively through it. Then, Yahoo added ads to my e-mail interface, which I was paying for via my DSL service (partnered with AT&T). It not only wrecked the wonderful interface, but killed any interest in my use of Yahoo in general. I not only switched to a different e-mail provider, but a whole new phone/net company. I still have one of the free accounts, and Yahoo converted my old paid account to a free one, but I visually and emotionally still can’t stand the “new” mail service. I will never use it, and the day it is forced on me is the day I get off my backside and eliminate the accounts entirely. After 10 years of Yahoo, I’ve moved on until they can get it right.

Sorry yahoo. I do have warm fuzzy memories, but those are in the past. I wish you a bright future, but am disappointed enough I won’t be back to even test the waters until I hear that something has substantially changed. Bells, whistles, calendars and search features can’t make up for a bad interface and the slap in the face I felt when I was “double-dipped on” for ad money. Ads I understand on free accounts. Ads intruding on my use of your product, I will never support. At least you are acceptings lightly more feedback than usual. I hope you get a suggestion board for Y-Mail soon so more users can tell you what they want instead of you guessing and missing the mark.

Good luck.

October 27th, 2007 at 4:32 am

You have probably heard it all about “spam”. I started looking at my spam, with the graphics blocker on & unsubscribing to the email manure. That has helped, but I imagine that some of those senders don’t care if I have opted out or not. There is probably a way spam is sent out by computer. I still recognize some of same sites that I have unsubscribed to. You know like a “bad penny”, they keep popping up.

I’ve heard that there is a way to block an address from a computer, never to be seen again. Is there such a wonderful thing? Please say yes & tell me how to do it. Please, please, please.

October 27th, 2007 at 4:33 am

I use yahoo but I do wish there were some way for yahoo to stop all the spam and bull from my inbox. PLEASE

October 27th, 2007 at 8:05 am

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October 27th, 2007 at 8:50 am

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October 27th, 2007 at 9:46 am

Dear Yahoo,

I would change over to the new Yahoo mail if only they would stop forcing me to open a new browser window every time I want to go to My Yahoo. What a terrible maldesign.

October 27th, 2007 at 11:01 am

Yahoo! Mail is a great way for me to stay in touch with my boyfriend, my best friend (because he never answers his phone) and to get quick responses instead of running up the phone bill.

October 27th, 2007 at 11:21 am

Great, yahoo now has a AT&T ad that you can no teven close. I am one step away from dumping my yahoo. I understand the need for advertising, but now we are going to put a big ad blocking the top of your yahoo page and you can not even close it.

October 27th, 2007 at 12:23 pm

I had just started using Yahoo a little over a month and a half. I think it really neat and very cool,I especially like it were you can switch back and fourth between the regular mail and then to the beta.
I just love using Yahoo and its capabilities.

October 27th, 2007 at 12:38 pm

I missed my friend B-Day because of the Birthday Alert bug

October 27th, 2007 at 2:05 pm

New Yahoo Mail Beta not compatible with Mozilla suite.
Strange because the browser is built on the Firefox
engine.

October 27th, 2007 at 2:08 pm

I mistakenly changed to the new yahoo mail yesterday. I do not like it, buy don’t know how to change back. #1 its too slow. #there are too many things poping up at once.

October 27th, 2007 at 2:23 pm

I like Yahoo Mail and haven’t had any major problems, but I’ve recently been having trouble with the My Yahoo page. The content keeps reverting back to an earlier date until I click “edit” in a field. Then it returns to the current date, but only temporarily. It’s weird. The comics section is the worst problem, and although it’s not seriously inconvenient, it IS a little annoying. Hopefully there is something that Yahoo can do to fix this. Also, what is the best way to prevent spam? I use the address blocker when it enters my inbox, but is there something more proactive, rather that reactive, I can be doing to get rid of the spam? Thanks a lot and keep up the good work!! =]

October 27th, 2007 at 2:43 pm

I love Yahoo!Mail and recommend it to all friends of mine. I also use Yahoo! as my search engine and I think that’s what we all should do
1.to not let Big Brother (Google) watching us.
2. beacause Yahoo! is simply THE BEST!

I am waiting for Yahoo! Publishers to be available in my language to start using it !

October 27th, 2007 at 3:00 pm

I think that Yahoo mail beta is cool but the bad thing about it is that you have to go into a new window for your notes and calendar i hope that they fix that and i also do not like the thing with the mac and the pc you have to go back to yahoo classic for mac and i also like the fact that you can choose which one you want either beta or classic and i have been with yahoo for about 9 or 10 years so i have grown with yahoo i am a girl that likes to change her email address every 2 or 3 months but i am going to stick with my current one but i have also been with hotmail and they are good too the good thing about them they get less junk mail and after a little while in yahoo you keep on getting like 200 emails and they are all junk overall i like yahoo and i think that they are awesome just fix the gliches!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

October 27th, 2007 at 3:34 pm

Looking for an old flame named Wesley Hale from Kirby High School in Memphis Tennessee.

October 27th, 2007 at 4:07 pm

I switched to yahoo when I became less than pleased with my ISP and realized that work email addresses wouldn’t be the same forever… So here I am many years later glad that I’m still using it.

Funny thing I’ve noticed is that once a year or so I’ll get an email bound for someone with the same name in the UK or Australia. Never really sure what I should do with those…

October 27th, 2007 at 5:44 pm

Yahoo mail has been crashing my computer over the last 2 weeks. My yahoo homepage has been crashing my computer for the last year when I click on a new story. Thus, I don’t click on yahoo links from my homepage much anymore. Sad but true. And its near impossible to get help on this stuff. Arghhh

October 27th, 2007 at 5:52 pm

One day a long long time ago, I signed up for yahoo mail.
One day someone sent me e-mail, and I got it.
The end

October 27th, 2007 at 6:36 pm

I miss the way yahoo e-mail use to be. I really do not like the new way. I can not make the letters big enough for me or some of my frinds to see. The troops in Iraq and Afghanistan loved it when I would write to them in different colors and made the letters large enough that the ones on the side could see it to. Please help an old woman out by putting the e-mail back the way it was and not the up graded one. Please. Thank You Carol

October 27th, 2007 at 8:38 pm

dear sir i wont to go back to my old yahoo .i dont like the new way .but i dont know how to get back to it.i am not haveing any luck with this onthanks lois young

November 1st, 2007 at 9:36 am

Personally I have had Y! Mail for almost 9 years now and it has been incredible to me. The classic always worked fine and the new Yahoo Mail, works even better for me. Unlimited storage and the abillity to search my e-mails (9 years of storage) is incredibly useful. I can always sync it to my smartphones (BB, Treo, iPhone) and it works just great.
Thanks Y! Mail team for making this a great product.

November 2nd, 2007 at 5:20 pm

Have Yahoo. It needs some fine tuning. A complete page will not fit horizonally on my screen. I must use a slide bar on the bottom of the page or reduce the print size to a point where I need a magnifiyer to read the screen. Neither is convenient. So I am going to start using Google more.

November 5th, 2007 at 6:11 am

Email is fine except for all this “messenger” blabber jumping up as a result of my response to a prompt to get a free enhanced tool bar. Yahoo sponsored spam is becoming a real problem. I have to click off messenger pop ups three or more times every time I now use email. How do you get rid of this unwanted clutter?

November 9th, 2007 at 2:06 am

My old yahoo mail with same login as my geocity login were gone together as they merge. Got this one I’m using right now on amazingly nice mail beta, should be permenant since its verified.

November 9th, 2007 at 3:14 am

I signed up for yahoo in 97/98 and the cool thing is I still have emails stored in my inbox from these days. It feels really strange reading them. Because of that and the fact that you can keep all emails nowadays will probably make me a life long yahoomail addict/user wharghs :))

November 9th, 2007 at 10:14 am

got problem got windows vista lost my sons contact lives in colorado all i get is mailier demon when use mail of any kind yahoo hot mail have done every thing i could think of
have been using live messenger for over 10 yeas with no problem

November 9th, 2007 at 5:21 pm

I am not very happy with yahoo mail;i have not ben able to see all my e-mails and can’t e-mail either.You supossed to have a revised version of mail and it is geeting worse..

November 10th, 2007 at 9:46 pm

I have met some very interesting people via emails. I love meeting people from countries besides the US. I think learning about other cultures from the people who make up that culture helps us to understand humanity as a whole.

The email systems in place right now bring us closer. We can see individuals through personal email, instead of “those people.”

It boggles my mind that global communication is so easy with emails. I remember the days when the only alternative to snail mail was making a phone call. From the US to Europe took minutes rather than seconds, and cost $65 for 10 minutes! How things have changed.

I love technology, especially when it works, as the saying goes. I can’t wait to get more gadgets and gizmos that will help us communicate even better.

Uh-oh. No spell checker. Oh well.

November 12th, 2007 at 1:25 pm

I have been using Yahoo email for a very long time and no matter what other emails I may have, I always keep yahoo close to my heart.
I do have a question about the new yahoo mail though. It seems that the new email has given me a folder that I can not delete. I have tried many times and the only way to make it go away is to go back to the old version of yahoo mail. Can you help me with this problem? The name on the rogue folder is : @G@Green

Thanks

November 14th, 2007 at 8:24 am

I asm not able to create or send or delete mail from the “new” mail.

Can I go back to the not so new page please…

November 14th, 2007 at 2:24 pm

I love the new yahoo!! Awesome job, it was time for a change.
BTW yahoo is amazing, I had hotmail but deleted my account thank you!!!

November 18th, 2007 at 5:21 pm

the system is down too much you guys need to work on that more often.

November 19th, 2007 at 8:50 am

When I was a junior in highschool(about 3/4 years ago), i had gotten a job and made great friends with the people that i worked with at a movie theatre. My parents were very religous and didnt really like that i hade made friends outside of their religion. So they made me quit my job, took away my cell phone, deleted all the contacts on my phone, changed my phone number, and took away my car. A teenager without their friends is completely lost. So i used yahoo email to keep in touch and talk to them every day. I could even send emails to their cell phones as a txt message. It was a lifesaver!

November 21st, 2007 at 9:13 am

what’s wrong w/ my email? I try to delete things and it just doesn’t do anything. I check the items and hit delete and a minute later nothing has happened. I thought it was taking time because of the amount that I was deleting but it still didn’t delete anything after I tried to delete just one email.

November 27th, 2007 at 12:32 pm

I’ve been a Yahoo user/fan since the very first Yahoo page back in the early 90s. I remember writing to 2 guys at Stanford to get my personal web page included in the directory. Since then I’ve been loyal to Yahoo in every way. It is in this frame of mind that I write this.

Yahoo Mail is very “cool,” but lacks some things that Gmail has. First of all, the spam filters are nowhere near as accurate or helpful as Gmail. Gmail’s filters get it right over 99% of the time while Yahoo’s often flags legit mail, or fails to flag spam.

Secondly, the interface seems buggy. Many times the keystrokes don’t work and I have to pull down the Action menu to mark messages as read.

Moving between multiple messages is slow. If you do a search and you get a long list (50-100) of messages, it’s not easy to scroll through. Many times I get the message “Yahoo mail is loading this message” or “Yahoo mail cannot load this message” or something like that. Gmail is much better for this.

Opening an email from the list without using the View Pane is too slow. If you use the pane, it’s hard to see all your messages because the message list has to be smaller. Yahoo should implement another choice of having the view pane on the right side a la Hotmail.

I would love an option to not have the RSS Feeds in the left menu.

There’s a lot to love about the new Yahoo Mail but I thought these suggestions would be the most helpful.

Scott

November 30th, 2007 at 12:16 am

Just wanted to say hi to the world

December 17th, 2007 at 10:00 am

My story is not of a victory. I used to used my yahoo account for the longest time, unil a jaker stole my password.etc. Now jao can I have you back. I miss u all. Crying….
Thank you,

Vanessa Vilchez:. (the real one)

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July 7th, 2008 at 3:01 pm

Dear Yahoo,

Ever since Google took over Yahoo I’m getting a lot more spam in my bulk mail.It has trippled in volume,but my main concern is that I’m getting a lot in my personal Email as well.Can anything be done about that? Im a novice at this computer-so any help from you would be appreciated.

Thank you,
Marian Thesenvitz

August 5th, 2008 at 2:04 pm

Hi Yahoo!

In the last few days, the number of spam mail I am getting has grown significantly and Yahoo! is now putting a large number of legitimate emails I get on regular basis in the Spam folder also where it did not do this before. Can you please readjust your filters please as this is causing many of significantly more manual tidy up work.

Thanks

Leon Koutsovasilis