Reader Poll: What Mail do you have, and how do you access it?

January 18th, 2008 at 10:16 am

Two general comments:

At first think about Linux

And second: It doesn’t matter if i use Firefox on Windows, Mac, Linux, eComstation, FreeBsd and so on as Firefox provides its own plattform. So if you support the Mozilla-base the underlying OS should not be so interesting to ask…

The same for Opera on Win/Mac/Linux…

January 18th, 2008 at 10:18 am

You’re missing POP3 for your Plus members.

January 18th, 2008 at 10:18 am

well and just to add another issue:

yahoo does exactly know which browsers are used… so maybe do not ask the users to answer this question but provide us users “browser-usage-statistics” from you own logfiles…

I mean this should be interesting to know

January 18th, 2008 at 10:19 am

You’re missing POP3 for your Plus members.

Kinda wish I could use IMAP (hint hint).

January 18th, 2008 at 10:45 am

hi good updations on yahooooooo
thankkkkkkkkssssssss

January 18th, 2008 at 10:48 am

Dear Yahoo

I am an older generation user and I like the
old simple yahoo. software that I started off
with many years ago. The way the new yahoo
software is now I can not access my mail and
send e-mails out at this time. This has been
going on for days now. Am having a very
difficult time with this new e-mail
software and I have talked w/other co-workers
that have yahoo as their provider and they cannot
access their e-mails either. Help Help Please

January 18th, 2008 at 11:10 am

Yes, I agree - IMAP please!!!!!!! Google has it, so why don’t you? Give it to us, please, at least for the Plus users.

January 18th, 2008 at 11:30 am

Hi, and yes, another vote for IMAP please! It’s the one killer feature whose absence dissappoints.

Been here for 8 years, I can’t live or work without Y! Mail, but the lack of IMAP (even on my plus) account is my biggest and only gripe.

Here’s crossed fingers to a 6th way to access my account in 2008

January 18th, 2008 at 11:33 am

I generally like the New Mail, but miss being able to color code the mail by the account to which it has been sent.

January 18th, 2008 at 11:53 am

Someone doesn’t know how to make a poll.

January 18th, 2008 at 12:21 pm

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071128 SUSE/2.0.0.11-3.1 Firefox/2.0.0.11

Firefox has a Linux version as well…

January 18th, 2008 at 12:28 pm

hello all

January 18th, 2008 at 12:32 pm

I much prefer the Classic Mail, probably because I’m used to how to do what I need to with it….so how come I had to expressly tell the app SO MANY TIMES that I wish to use the Classic version? Once should be enough, don’t you think?

January 18th, 2008 at 1:03 pm

Mail Plus users should definitely have access to IMAP. Sometimes I wonder what value I’m receiving with Mail Plus other than the elimination of the ads.

January 18th, 2008 at 1:20 pm

Chalk up another Linux user (Ubuntu in particular). I agree that it would be interesting to see what your server farms logs have to say about the platforms used to access Y! Mail.

Keep up the good work and please do not disregard the open platforms in the future.

January 18th, 2008 at 1:26 pm

I clicked the VOTE button in my Yahoo Mail RSS reader. It crashed FireFox. Great. And I was about to vote that I prefer FireFox. Hmm.

January 18th, 2008 at 1:40 pm

You are forgetting the ones who Browse using the PSP >:(

January 18th, 2008 at 1:53 pm

Hey ryan K i like what u been doing this past week asking y-mail user for their own answer on diffrent keep it coming i really like this polling thing i would like a new color scheme default black color for new yahoo mail classic and all-new-mail (drag and drop ) and imap maybe for free yahoo mail user like g-mail and plus mail and your next poll maybe should ask user how could yahoo mail improve spam better what are we missing hey new pick nice backgorund need to be lighter

January 18th, 2008 at 2:18 pm

Hi
The new email would be great if the font wasn’t so tiny. What good is the new mail page if anyone over 40 can;t see it well enough to read?
Come on Yahoo …. help us out here.

January 18th, 2008 at 3:04 pm

I prefer Classic, new one didn’t work on my snail slow isp.
You keep telling me you’ve fixed my incoming mail count on the Yahoo toolbar and the home page. No No No. If it says I have 5 new mail on the toolbar, may say 9 new mail on the home page, when I go into my account, I may have zero and up, but seldom what the bar and page tell me I have. Why can’t you fix it??

January 18th, 2008 at 3:10 pm

I find the appearance of the new Mail to be appealing, but I find that the performance suffers, particularly if I am using a system with ! GHz or less of processing power and under 512 MB of memory. I have a 2000-2001 vintage desktop, which still works, but not always well with the new metaphors. What I typically do with Yahoo! Mail is scan my Bulk mail, see if anything is worthwhile, then remove the rest. Then I scan my Inbox and do the same. What I want to keep I then grab with a POP server and pull it into Thunderbird. The pruning I do in advance from a browser in Firefox. Frankly, unless I can get 1 second or less response on the Web, I don’t read all my mail there, too time consuming.

January 18th, 2008 at 3:27 pm

Why “(mac)” after Opera? I use it on PC.

January 18th, 2008 at 3:33 pm

I voted that I use “both but prefer Classic” to the New Mail. The new mail is great in so many ways, but too major complaints, one of which has already been commented on, keep me from sticking with the New Mail:

1) The font size. I use Firefox chiefly because I can *increase* the font size on most websites, including New and Classic Mail, in incremental steps. However, the New Yahoo Mail does not render even remotely close to acceptable when the font size is increased by Firefox.

2)There is no “forward as attachment” option in the New Mail. The “forward” command in New Mail defaults to in-line forwards. This is unacceptable for the spam that I daily forward to SpamCop.net. I do not want the attachment to open and execute whatever evil is within simply to forward it to a reporting service.

Please contact me for further information and / or screenshots.

- dpcfmander

January 18th, 2008 at 4:03 pm

The biggest problem with computers and e-mail
is try to do too much. “Keep It Simple S”
The new e-mail is way to busy, to small on print
and confusing to navigate. Most of us over 50 just want to read and reply without going thru hoops.

January 18th, 2008 at 4:23 pm

How do I access my yahoomail?
With browser like most of the users but it would be nice if we have the options to choose between POP and IMAP not only the browser.
How about that?
Thanks

January 18th, 2008 at 5:03 pm

I prefer the classic version because i’m accessing it on both PC (Opera) and Mobile (Opera Mini)

January 18th, 2008 at 5:20 pm

I have accounts using both versions, and I much prefer the original version. The new version is slower to access and read. Also too much stuff and the print is too small.

January 18th, 2008 at 5:31 pm

I use classic yahoo on an older mac with tiger and firefox. I tried the new mail but it was slow compared to classic. If there was one thing I found the most annoying, that would be:
When I am on the yahoo main page and try to click on an email message in the mail preview, it would take me to the main mail menu. Then I would have to click on that message again to read it. My internet is slow, so it would take a few minutes to see that message.
Thanks for letting us users give some feedback.

January 18th, 2008 at 6:02 pm

LINUX FOR GODS SAKE!!!!! I’m appalled you forgot to list Linux as a selection, and yet you found it necessary to subdivide the Mac-OS releases. What could it hurt to ask about Linux?

January 18th, 2008 at 6:08 pm

I don’t like Yahoo mail at all. All I get is SPAM SPAM SPAM. I don’t have that problem with a different e-mail. I have asked Yahoo how to make those e-mails to automatically go into the span box but the 100 page answer they sent me was useless.

January 18th, 2008 at 6:40 pm

I use XP one one computer and Vista on another — your survey forced me to use one only.

By the way, doesn’t Yahoo mail “know” which browser it is talking to - in which case you ought to be able to find out more accurately without a survey.

I’m doubtful in any case about surveying via a blog. basically you get the opinions of blog readers and they are probably not “typical” yahoo mail users. It’s interesting nonetheless, I guess

January 18th, 2008 at 7:05 pm

And Linux?

January 18th, 2008 at 7:45 pm

The writting is to small so we all
will stay with mail classic.thinking of leaveing
yahoo what good is it if you can’t read it.
we think you talk alot and can’t lissen to us.

ken s

January 18th, 2008 at 8:35 pm

I mostly use Classic (I read there was an updated Classic, but I don’t have it)- I like the new vers OK but it’s slow(er) and man those huge ads on the right bother me.

January 18th, 2008 at 8:55 pm

Great indeed your “ERUKA” on yahoo mail.When can we get Bulk mail for SPAM’G.
Thanks for this help full survey and arrangement to view our votes it is excellent.

January 18th, 2008 at 9:44 pm

I use Yahoo Mail Plus so I am able to use POP3 to access it.
GMAIL offers POP3 mail without a fee…and has a larger capacity than yahoo…and again, it is free. Hint…why can’t yahoo do the same?

January 18th, 2008 at 10:08 pm

I’d like to use the new Y! Mail on Firefox 3, but it’s just not compatible. I sure hope that this is fixed by the end of the beta test.

January 18th, 2008 at 11:16 pm

I use Y! Mail Plus from Linux, Windows, and my mobile.
I love the new interface. Now, give us IMAP please!!!

January 19th, 2008 at 2:37 am

Opera (Windows) ??
I guess most of the Other category votes go to this.

January 19th, 2008 at 4:10 am

Yep, I’ve been a Plus user for two years now. Where’s the IMAP for my money?

January 19th, 2008 at 5:49 am

Thinking it would be extremely helpful to know more about ALL of us and how we compare to the rest of the approximately 250 million Yahoo! Mail users, why don’t you OPEN your poll questions more?

To the first question: Neither, the new AOL Mail instead.

To the second question: openSUSE 10.2.

To the third question: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.10) Gecko/20071015 SUSE/2.0.0.10-0.1 Firefox/2.0.0.10.

January 19th, 2008 at 6:06 am

I have gone back and forth between the All-New and the Classic Mail. And I keep coming back to the Classic. It is easier to use and I can do some things there that I can’t on the new.

January 19th, 2008 at 6:06 am

There were no platforms, browsers, etc. forgotten. If it’s not named specifically, then it falls into the catagory of “other”. Noting the relatively small percentage of “other” votes, it appears that people are overly sensitive about not seeing a particular choice listed.

I am a Classic user. I have tried the new version twice, and both times I switched back after encountering problems with message viewing (both in the folder listing, and in navigating from message to message).

One more thing…

More polls please. Thanks!

January 19th, 2008 at 6:48 am

I use classic because I live in the country and am stuck with really slow connection speed dial up.

January 19th, 2008 at 7:05 am

i need to get all data and all news in my e-mail

January 19th, 2008 at 8:22 am

Yahoo Classic / Mail Plus with POP access. It offers everything I need — no more, no less. I hope this service remains as it is and that those developers with an incessant need to tinker will leave this one alone.

January 19th, 2008 at 8:30 am

you guys came up with the all new yahoo mail.I tried my best using it.It just wont load always either I face screen resolution issues at cyber cafes or the time taken for loading mails is very long.So I stuck to my classic version though its nothing compared to gmail I am putting up with it as I have been a yahoo user for quite some time and I love myYahoo!!!! Its awsome and congrats to that team.Yahoo mail new it has a long way to go towards optimization.

January 19th, 2008 at 9:27 am

I like the new mail, but I have to switch back and forth because Classic does a better job on the “check other mail” function. It gives you a message like “There was no new mail on the server” or “Downloaded two messages from whatever@othermail.com“. I miss that.

And I also miss the color-coding. Please, please bring that over to the new.

One other issue: The soft wrap and the enter key in the New Mail codes to a break (br) with lt and gt keys of course, instead of a standard paragraph break. That is REALLY annoying when you copy and paste some text from your email, and it plays havoc with some recipients’ reply function. If you have a suggestion or a fix for that, I’d appreciate it.

January 19th, 2008 at 11:01 am

The ‘all-new’ email works great in linux using firefox. I believe even opera works with the all-new email, even though it is not listed as one of the suggested browsers.

January 19th, 2008 at 12:16 pm

classic plz

January 19th, 2008 at 1:37 pm

Sounds to me like Classic wins, maybe Plus would if yahoo listens to the complaints made by Plus users!

January 19th, 2008 at 2:24 pm

I thought Yahoo did have IMAP. I access my mail mostly from my Windows Mobile 6 Pocket PC and the built in mail client configured Yahoo as IMAP and it works.

January 19th, 2008 at 6:29 pm

I need the Classic type to effectively read and get all of my emails. I know that for at least a week, I have not been able to get all of my emails. Please make it possible that I may be able to return to the regular classic set and
be able to check as well as read all of my emails.

January 19th, 2008 at 6:29 pm

I need the Classic type to effectively read and get all of my emails. I know that for at least a week, I have not been able to get all of my emails. Please make it possible that I may be able to return to the regular classic set and
be able to check as well as read all of my emails.

January 19th, 2008 at 6:29 pm

I need the Classic type to effectively read and get all of my emails. I know that for at least a week, I have not been able to get all of my emails. Please make it possible that I may be able to return to the regular classic set and
be able to check as well as read all of my emails.

January 19th, 2008 at 7:06 pm

I use the new yahoo mail and like it very much. I’d like it even better if it were compatible with Firefox 3.

January 19th, 2008 at 7:35 pm

I have classic I think. (can’t verify). I have been notified that an e-mail was sent to my alternative e-mail account with code, so I can verify my other e-mail address. Where is it? Once I log out of yahoo and then want back in - it says my user name or password is incorrect. This is saved by Firefox so it can’t be wrong and I have only one alternative e-mail site to send the code to. Also why is my user name always wrong? You’re too cumbersome and glitch-filled to deal with anymore. BTW, this is the second time I have tried Yahoo! Never again!!!!!!!! Sandune

January 19th, 2008 at 8:44 pm

hi meet me in yahoo oks!!!

January 19th, 2008 at 9:20 pm

Hi yahoo, I am trying to get my addresses for my e_mail to be able to put it in my new computer. Help me get my addresses and e_mail
THANK YOU MYNE ADDRESS epalmer31@juno.com

January 19th, 2008 at 9:37 pm

Just finished trying the new Yahoo web page… hate it! Not as friendly as the old style with little option to set up the page like the old mail/webpage. Sorry, maybe when it is finshed and out of beta format, it will be worth looking at again.

January 19th, 2008 at 10:48 pm

I tried out the new Yahoo WebMail, and after just a day or two switched back to the Classic. I don’t actually remember why, but it was something like, in Classic it takes two clicks to reach the Inbox, and in the new version, it was just too complex to bother with. That, and I don’t think there were any new features I actually thought useful.

January 20th, 2008 at 6:02 am

i have been using classic and its been quiet good
to me i love

January 20th, 2008 at 6:02 am

i have been using classic and its been quiet good
to me i love it