Yahoo! Mail 2007: The Year that Was
- Posted December 31st, 2007 at 12:05 pm by Ryan
- Categories: General, Life of Liam, New Stuff, Tips & Tutorials
As another year draws to a close, now may be a good time to reflect back on the year that was for Yahoo! Mail. I’ve only been here since July but exciting stuff has been happening all year. Here are some of the favorite highlights from folks all around the Yahoo! Mail team:
- Messenger and Mail…together at last! - The first really big news came in February, when we began rolling out an updated version of Yahoo! Mail Beta featuring integration with Yahoo! Messenger. The other Ryan K (Kennedy) provided a great screencast demonstration of the new feature.
- Infinity and beyond - Yahoo! Mail announces UNLIMITED STORAGE … email packrats around the world REJOICE!!!
- Big News for Yahoo! Mail - August featured a special delivery from the Mail team. The official rollout of the All-New Yahoo! Mail (translation: no more beta).
- Mail, Messenger, and now SMS … all in one place - One of the new features incorporated into the latest release of Yahoo! Mail is integrated Text/SMS Messaging. Now Mail users can easily send email, chat with a friend on Messenger, or send a text message to a friend’s phone, all from the comfort of their computer. Parents no longer have to try and type messages on their phones to communicate with kids. PARENTS REJOICE … but the kids still don’t consider them BFFs.
- Blocking out the eBay and PayPal Phish - Yahoo!, PayPal, and eBay announce that spammers will have a much tougher time reaching Yahoo! Mail users with fake eBay/PayPal phishing messages … thanks to a technology called DomainKeys. Spammers don’t rejoice.
- Yahoo! Mail Turns 10! - Many are shocked to learn that Yahoo! Mail celebrates its 10th Birthday in October. People aren’t shocked that Yahoo! Mail has been around that long … just that we are even that much older. I’m even more shocked that we didn’t get a mention during the 1997 episode of the I Love the 90’s marathon last week.
- Introducing the New & Improved Yahoo! Mail Security Site - Feeling that you just don’t know where to find the latest tips and tricks to protect yourself from fraudsters? Check out the New & Improved Yahoo! Mail Security Site (antispam.yahoo.com).
- Yahoo! Mail at 30,000 feet - JetBlue and Yahoo! announce the launch of a wi-fi enabled airplane dubbed BetaBlue. Users have even more ways to stay connected!
All in all it has been an exciting year for those of us on the Mail team, and we hope that it has been exciting for you too.
If you were already a Yahoo! Mail user, we would like to thank you for sticking with us. If you are a new user we want to thank you for coming aboard. Either way we are glad you’re here and hope you are looking forward to enjoying all of the new things that we will be working to bring you in 2008!
Ryan K.
Community Manager
Yahoo! Mail
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- 47 Comments
December 31st, 2007 at 12:26 pm
wow… 10 years. I am amazed. I got this email when I was 28 hence the melmonette_28 username. I just turned 37 in dec. I have had it almost as long as yahoo as been around:) Makes me feel like one of the original users:)
December 31st, 2007 at 1:44 pm
One more Bush year to go. Hope we make it without starting WWIII. Seems every thing He touches turns to s__t. Yeeeee Hoooooooaaaaaaa!!!!
December 31st, 2007 at 1:53 pm
On the SMS part do you think you guys would be able to roll out that feature in Latin America any time soon. I’ve read that Y! has already partnered with both Telefónica and América Móvil so it looks like a logic move forward.
I for one would be eagerly waiting.
Keep up the great work and the best for 2008.
December 31st, 2007 at 2:01 pm
long time user first time commenter. There’s so much within Yahoo that you don’t really ever need to go anywhere else
December 31st, 2007 at 2:35 pm
Still waiting for IMAP from Yahoo!
Thanks to that feature, 2007 was the year that I, and many others, finally switched to Gmail as the primary account.
December 31st, 2007 at 2:37 pm
All the new changes are great but I still won’t make yahoo my primary email because you still charge to download to the email clients. As long as Gmail is free for this feature, I’ll keep using them.
December 31st, 2007 at 2:43 pm
About Yahoo! Mail - - Like anything else in this world, the new mail is a mixed bag. Some things suit me just fine, like the unlimited storage and improved security, other things don’t. I don’t care for the new mail’s overall layout and feel, and have returned to the old mail format.
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10 Years . . . or so -
I understand what you’re saying, Melissa. I’ve been around the net since before the begining of Yahoo! Back then the internet was still pretty much a novelty. In some ways I miss some of the fun of those old days - somehow it seemed a kinder gentler place as I think back about it. Mainstream society, with its’ the teaming masses (as well as the crooks, scammers, greedy ad-men, etc. embedded in their midst) hadn’t totally caught on yet. Still seems unreal how the time has flown. It’s true that the years are “shorter”
the older you get!!
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Time - precious time . . .
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Like the song says “one day you look around - 10 years have got behind you”
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“Time keeps on slippin’ into the future!
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LOL to reuben sanchez. I’ll keep my finger crossed!
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Oh yeah - Happy New Year everybody!! Good karma to all.
December 31st, 2007 at 6:44 pm
i love yahoo its great i am also a 1 time commenter
December 31st, 2007 at 9:24 pm
Wish u all nd Y! very efficient NEW YEAR
January 1st, 2008 at 12:36 am
hi
January 1st, 2008 at 6:20 am
Lets not forget about Yahoo! Mail on the iphone! It’s been a bumpy ride, but for the last 2 weeks we’re seeing excellent “push” results! Now just fix the problem where Yahoo! Mail stops sending from the iphone every 1-2 days and we will have the best email on the iphone!
Cheers
January 1st, 2008 at 6:40 am
hello how you today happy new year
January 1st, 2008 at 10:21 am
I too, am disappointed by the President, but I’m afraid the Dummies(I mean Democrats) have alienated the only one that was decent in their party(Sen. Joe Lieberman) and the other party isn’t faring much better.
Where are the leaders of integrity?
January 1st, 2008 at 11:28 am
I must agree with Reuben Sanchez comment and add a thought or two of my own.
First of all, I was amamzed that anyone would vote for anyone named Bush after experiencing the elder.
Second, This disconected dope keeps saying he was mandated by the people. Uh, Uh, the popular vote did not elect it was the Electoral College that pushhed him in. Is it time to do away with this entity? The reason for its existance is long gone and it appears that it can elect someone who was not elected by the majority. To my mind that is VERY bad!\
Hope we survive the coming year. Do not forget that he is accumulating and unbelievable deficit for your kids and my grandkids to shoulder.
I hate to see his grinning face in the news, clearly his is out of touch with reality. But wait a minute, he has noone in the war, does he, and even more important Cheney doesn’t either, but he is making an unbelievable fortune on the blood of OUR precious children.
Enough said?
Patricia R. Cramer
January 1st, 2008 at 11:51 am
new to all of this. i hope i catch on and can figure out how to talk to some of you people. i know there are blogs and chat rooms i just am not sure how to get there or get started. happy new year to all of you.
January 1st, 2008 at 1:21 pm
I second the request for IMAP and hope that Yahoo gets IMAP working in 2008. Seriously tempted to switch to Gmail simply because they already have it.
January 1st, 2008 at 4:53 pm
i love yahoo its great
Happy new year
January 1st, 2008 at 5:10 pm
I hate the new email page I unfortunly added as you suggested a few monts ago and have not been able to read any mail sence. How can I get my mail back in a form I can read!
January 1st, 2008 at 5:13 pm
give me mail I can read !I can not read any of my mail in the new e-mail you sent me to download. I was doing good with the old formate and would like it back.
January 1st, 2008 at 5:19 pm
When will you offer IMAP access, at least to Mail plus customers? I have been a paying Mail plus customer for 7 years now and am tempted to switch to Gmail or .MAC
January 1st, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Yes, 2007 has come and gone. Too many changes, people pasing on and now we are heading into the fiasco of picking a new president, well this is going to be one of the most interest election years ever. On the one hand, we have a straight shooter, Mit Romney, a conservative Republican, family man, clean living and perhaps he will be one of the best, we can only hope so, then on the other side, we have a strong female contender and a decent African American ( am I being politcally correct in using that term?) Right there we have an interesting choice and America will have arrived, finally, out of the dark ages, electing minorities to the White House. 2008 is going to be wild and wooly, lets hope we all survive the elections; and the rise of inflation, hey when it takes 1/3 of my hourly wage to pay for a gallon of gas??????? Why are we still paying such outrageous prices to go to work so we can pay more taxes to pay our elected officials who’ll raise our taxes to pay their wages and its a never ending cycle, Boston Tea Party anyone?
January 1st, 2008 at 10:35 pm
hello
January 1st, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Yahoo just keeps getting better and better! Keep up the great work! Happy New Year!
January 1st, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Dear Yahoo,
I have been using Yahoo almost since its inception and THANK YOU for your service. But for some troubles infrequently-to which when complained you have responded well- the service is getting better and better.
Since a day or two, I am getting an unwanted site intruding when using Yahoo mail. I have copied it below.
http://lunafeed.net/popunder1.html
Please do the needful to get it off.
Thank you
Dr Frank Rajan
frank_rajan2001
January 1st, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Happy birthday to Yahoo Mail and a happy New Year. I like some of the new features, though the newmail takes a long time to load.
Still hoped for — in 2008? — are the IMAP access, which seems to be clamored for by many users, and the ability to insert pictures in messages.
Keep up the good work in 2008.
January 2nd, 2008 at 12:27 am
I have been on yahoo so long my id does not have any numbers or special characters at the end. I feel really old now. Happy Birthday Yahoo Mail!
January 2nd, 2008 at 2:59 am
Ditto on the IMAP. I’ve also been a paying Yahoo Mail Plus user for a number of years and the temptation to move to FREE Gmail with IMAP is getting too hard to resist. Better offer IMAP quick, because I’ll be making the switch in the next few months….
January 2nd, 2008 at 5:27 am
I’ve been on yahoo since primary school and now i’m 20. stuck to yahoo ever since the first use, and am a definite loyal supporter! yahoo’s really great it’s the only thing you need. wee!
January 2nd, 2008 at 6:04 am
Help!!! Is anyone else getting my problem ? I can’t access any of my mail older than 31 Dec 2007, I can’t send email, nor can I delete or move any of the other mail that I can get access to.
January 2nd, 2008 at 6:12 am
Dear Ryan,
I express my hertfelt gratitude and thanks to yahoo for providing me an oppourtunity to use Yahoo.
Since I am from Bangladesh few services are not available in our region.Can it be possible to make yahoo more global.
Thank you again.
Md. Nizamuddin ( Mission)
Jan 02, 2008
January 2nd, 2008 at 1:00 pm
About the gas prices….Doesn’t it seem strange that the big oil co.’s are showing the largest profits ever while we are paying the highest prices ever? What about oil,gas or energy reform? Where do these people get off making serious bank on OUR hard earned money. Sounds like robbing Peter to pay Paul…I’m extremely fed up with this
January 2nd, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Thank you so much for the unlimited storage!! I was gonna have to delete some of my favorite e-mail when my hero at yahoo blow up the storage meter.Thanka again and Happy new year!
nanabirdofangels
January 2nd, 2008 at 2:00 pm
I had no idea that Yahoo Mail was such a phenomenal email choice. I signed up for an account recently for our new business, but after seeing what you Yahooers have accomplished, I might well move all my accounts over to you. Thanks for all you do.
January 2nd, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Happy Birthday Yahoo! You were my first ( and favorite) e-mail! On a more serious note… I’ve become seriously addicted to Yahoo Answers!
Now I’m spending even MORE time on the internet!
Happy 2008 everyone!
January 2nd, 2008 at 4:33 pm
dear yahoo;
thank for providing great free service if it was not for you i would not have a email address.
January 2nd, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Please, please put my e-mail back like it was, I have not been able to open or read it since you changed i.
So please put it back like it was.
Thank you so very much
January 2nd, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Wow. I’ve had a Yahoo! Mail account since 1998. If only I’d opened one a year earlier — I could have called myself an original!
Congrats to Yahoo!
January 3rd, 2008 at 1:14 pm
What ever happened to the feature where you could quickly add all emails from your inbox to your address book? This feature appears to have been lost?
January 7th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
OK. it’s nice to see which of my contacts on on line while I am checking my mail. But now I am getting Yahoo Messenger Spam. Lots of messages that are left for me by spammers while I am off line. What can I do? Can I block all messages that come while I am off line? Can I block messages from people not in my contact list?
January 9th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Since yesterday (8 jan) I can no longer access my emails though I can sign in anywhere else.
January 9th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Unless you can do away with the obnoxious vertical banner ads on the free Yahoo mail, I will never use it. Terry’s ad-cenntric philiosophy need no longer apply. Fix the load times while you are at it, and the new mail would be great. I used to pay for it, but dropped the AT&T package when/because you put in ads on paying customers. I hope you can renegotiate the ad setups because it drove me and many other users away.
I saw some people above can’t get into the new mail. If you can get in to the ‘options’ menu, I believe you can reset your interface to the old mail. It usually asks me for feedback when I do (Yes, I try the new mail on occasion to see if its still as bad as it was–it always is). Give them both barrels!
January 9th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
CAMNE WAT YAHOO MESEGER
January 10th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Oops, sorry. If you are going old to new, the choice is in the options menu. If you are in new mail, the switch to classic button is right at the top of the page. Good luck getting your e-mail back.
January 21st, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Hey y’all. i have had Yahoo! for about a year and it is THE BEST especially the New Yahoo! Beta mail. It rox!
January 26th, 2008 at 8:21 am
good.
February 1st, 2008 at 3:34 am
Hi,
I could not open my Inbox and any in yahoo mail plse anybody could help me in this…………..
February 5th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Thanks yahoo for allowing the web universe to stay honestly competitive. When we live in a world that is largly bought out by big corporations that serve another agenda. Such as your rescent proposal by micro soft. Today while searching your campaign states that you have posted, something dawned on me. Anyone controlling the media has a great impact on our country and our voting outcome. Any one controlling the web could do the same. I applaud you and yahoo for keeping information free from groups that can use this web to serve a different agenda. This may not be the initial intent pertaining to the offer you have on the table right now, but consider this, you have been stewards over yahoo for as long as I can remember, and it would be a shame to say good bye to a long time friend that you have built. Stay in for the long haul and keep us all safe from controlled media. Thanks for your time.