It’s a new year and no doubt many of you resolved to make some changes in 2008. In fact some of you may still be adhering to those resolutions. I’m still going strong on my 2-3 liters of water per day, which has cut out a lot of unnecessary coffee and diet cola consumption. We probably all have something that we wanted to change this year, but what I want to know is what your Yahoo! Mail resolution would be for the year (if you didn’t already have one).
What would a Mail resolution be, you ask? Maybe you have vowed to clean up that address book and make sure it’s all current. Maybe you want to keep your inbox tidier (not that you have to with unlimited storage 
). There could be some of you who even want to do less emailing. If that last one applies to you that is just crazy talk … shake it off and get back in the game! You don’t need to email less if you find ways to get more done in less time. That’s where those resolutions to clean up that address book or inbox come into play. And perhaps in the process we can identify some product changes that will help you with those resolutions!
Anyway, I’d like to hear what yours are. If you have an unusual resolution that has nothing to do with Mail feel free to send those too. I’ll be picking 3 Mail resolution submissions, and 3 more for people who provide both a Mail and a fun non-Mail resolution. You can enter by sending an email to ymailblog1[at]yahoo.com, or by commenting. Don’t forget to include a current email address when submitting the comment (in the form, not the comment) so that I can contact you if you win.
Ryan K.
Community Manager
Yahoo! Mail
Tags: mail, new, resolutions, yahoo, year's
You know? It must be nice to have a Yahoo mail box. I’ve been trying to get one for several years and all I get is Error Code 1. Even though I’ve had a Yahoo account for about 7 to 8 years. I’ve sent e-mail messages to Yahoo but the problem goes unresolved. Go figure…
Mine is to add folders to Yahoo! Mail, and to get Yahoo Plus!
In addition to getting my life in order; work, money, etc, etc…
My New year’s Mail resolution is to categorize my contacts in better group. I have Vietnamese, English, and French friends and most of them don’t know the other languages except their mother language. So far when I forward inspirational emails, I got complained from my friend that they couldn’t understand it.. so yeah, better categorize my contacts than just put them all in 1 group like right now.
Another resolution is that I must figure out how to make better folders. So far I made 100+ folders, each folders represent one friend of mine, and yes, I emailed all of them frequently. But scrolling through them while sorting out the emails are a tiresome job. :-”
I would love to see a *full* integration of all of the Yahoo tools: calendar, addy book, mail, notes, tasks, etc. It drives me crazy that some are of the new version while others are of the old.
My New Years resolution is to communicate verbable and email more positively by excluding the words no and not. I’m finding out I use them constantly! It has been eye-opening, leading to a whole new way of thinking, speaking and writing. And it has been expanding my vocabulary as I find myself struggling for answers for things that are against my wishes or wants. ha!
My mail resolution is to figure out how to get yahoomail to recognize that when I send a bc to myself that it is not spam and it can safely go in my main folder. I double checked and I am on my mail list.
My non-mail resolution was to never split an infinitive again ( but it didn’t last very long ).
John W
i am going to email more! real letters, not forwards. i think i have been neglecting people.
never fall inlove again!!!!! It hurts to much
Make yahoo mail much more faster(some times yahoo mail does not even open in dial-up and beta version is very slow) ,add chat from classic,better spam filter,imap service from yahoo mail,opening audio/video file without download.
I actually DO have a mail resolution :)
I plan to narrow down my many email accounts to just a few, and to not change my email address every time I start getting spammed.
I HATE spam it has driven me out of many email account, but everyone is getting tired of my changing my email, MSN is actually bouncing spam back now, Id like to see an option for this in Yahoo, otherwise I’m very happy with it. Oh, MSN also allows you to forward to your other MSN accounts, could Yahoo do this too pretty please? And the ID linking is nice also, but Yahoo is still tops!
:)
i ahte new years resolutions….no one ever keeps them!
Why is there such a thing as a new year’s resolution at all? We should strive to better ourselfs everyday, regardless.
So make everyday a reason to have a monologue and take a few minutes every morning to rumenate on what and where u are, then release your thoughts on what and where u realy want to be…..Just a thought.
My resolutions would be to have a smoother and faster loading Yahoo! Mail. One that let me open all my emails first try, instead of loading blank pages in place of email.
I’d want one without banner ads like Gmail has accomplished. I’d want one that didn’t make you have to press a button to make your messages the right size for your screen.
Not to much to ask, I’m just asking you to fix the obvious errors that didn’t exist in Yahoo! Classic.
1 – Free POP/IMAP access for everyone
2 – YahooMail client/offline access
I wish I could put a picture in the content of my mail and wrap my text around it, like I can do that in AOL. I don’t seem to find ways to do it in Yahoo Classic or the new Yahoo Mail.
I resolve to stick with both the classic mail and My Yahoo classic (pretty easy resolutions to keep).
My resolution is to clean out my files with the online purchase confirmations …it’s after christmas..gotta weed out!
I will download only 1/2 of the little joke movies I get..fills up my temp files. I’m going to stop blogging it’s a time sucker!!
I find “my yahoo” great for weather, news, movies, tv listings and surfing..One stop shopping for me.
This year my resolution is to find a better job and settle down with the man of my dreams.
nam ha
I don’t know. I’m new to this. I’m excited to write more mails to all my friends. I wanna surf the web even more. I wanna start blogging now and not keep things anymore to myself. What’s new year’s resolution anyway? I still love the way things are.
I’ll keep checking if Ymail worx well with Safari hehehe.
+ More enhancement in attachment (attaching more than 1 file)
It is a very good service.
I like Yahoo and I always using it.
My New Years resolutions are: #1-focus on the positive aspects and let the negative have no reign in my life; #2-of course reduce my stature by 5 dress sizes; #3-to marry the love of my life before the year end! I already have inner peace, an abundance of love, joy and happiness, resonably good health and strength, the love of good friends, and a good family life!
In 2008 I would like to become more familiar with my Yahoo account. I have had it for years but it was only a few months ago that I discovered the calendar, and how useful it is. I would like to utilize the calendar more this year to help me to become more organized, and help me to remember my appointments. Also I just discovered tonight the “My Yahoo” page. How valuable that page can be in helping one ‘surf the net’. No longer is it necessarily to go to multiple sites to move around on the Internet. All I have to do is go to “My Yahoo” and click the link to whatever site I want.. I wish I would have discovered that feature long before. It would have saved a lot of time. Also on that page a person can see what is playing at movie theatres in the vicinity. That would have been a useful tool to have in the past. And a person can customize a TV guide for their area. Again, only having to go to one site. I’m anxious to see what other features yahoo has that I’ve missed all these years. My New Year’s Mail resolution is to discover all that Yahoo has to offer.
Sheryl
My resolution is to tell everyone to write me when you have something to say — not send me cute junk mail which says if I don’t send it to a million people I will die by noon.
Resolved to do LESS clean-up! That is,, to stop deleting mail that I later find I wish I still had.
File it away, yes, but keep it!
Here’s my New Year’s Resolution for Yahoo Mail: please bring imap in to the picture even if its’ for mail plus. Imap is definitely needed these days to keep mailed synced due to checking mail on multiple devices. so far, both gmail and aol are offering imap for free and you can’t even get it with yahoo and you have to pay for pop which isn’t nearly as valuable an asset these days as imap.
My resolution would be to STOP SUBSCRIBING to every new, vaguely interesting newsletter I stumble on – and to UNSUBSCRIBE from the dozens that I get but never read. I spend so much time just deleting the irrelevant ones, and glancing at and deleting the ones that are occasionally interesting, that I never read the GOOD ones! I mark them as TO BE READ – but they just pile up until I delete them because they are obsolete.
I have a new year’s resolution for me, and I have one for you, too, Ryan K. I do office work and a lot of filing, so my resolution is to never get a paper cut again! Or a cut from manila folders or the metal prongs on those manila folders. I have just had it with them!
My resolution for you, Ryan K, is to change the picture next to your name at the end of your blogs. It’s been great to associate a face with a name, but do you have any other expressions?
My resolutions:
Ponder my worth
Reconsider my girth
Scatter my mirth
Honor my earth
There are so many resolutions to be made. I tend to look at the wider spectrum of things; Perhaps we should make a resolution as a people for once…forget all our pesky little habits, and concentrate on a more larger goal. For instance, world peace, global warming, and mayhaps, find some empathy with-in ourselves for those who are less fortunate. If we make a committment to improve the world around us…our own little worlds will follow suite. :-)
As for the Yahoo! email…I just need to quit being a pack-rat. I tend to keep everything I deem terribly important, and have more than several folders–all of which are buldging at their perverbial boundries.
Best wishes to all for a lovely New Year! And remember, VOTE this fall!!
see I have allready learned how to reread the email. ha! Remember when you do this to put your email in the Mail, it will not be published.
BTW Ryan k good for you with your water drinking! I don’t have that much self control just yet, I guess. Drinking my 6-8 glasses of water a day has been a New Years thing for a long time, but hasn’t happened yet. Do you know the comment “You make coffee nervous” ? Well, that can be me sometimes.
glad someone is out there trying to keep the email clean BTW
My mail box really needs cleaning I have focused on that since the 1st. i do know a little about emailing, but not as much as I want to know. So this year I plan to become very keen on what is out there. Some friends will only connect with me on Yahoo Messenger. So there ya go…. im here for this year for sure.
M.Y.O.B. (Mind Your Own Business)..this year I will try to be an empathetic observer,NOT a participant, in other people’s dramas. And while I’m at it, cultivate self-control during crisis…
my new years resolution is to be less critical of myself and of the people around me.
my new years resolution this year is the same as last yeaR..STAY SOBER..i’m a recovering addict and have been since 9-27-06..the last time i got high…i’ve been on a methadone program since june of ’05..i was hooked on opiates for the longest time but my downfall was crack cocaine.. i did my first toke at 18 and my last one a week after my 38th birthday..i was homeless twice, had no hydro once for three weeks, and ended up in detox once after a month of straight smoking 3 years ago..every day is still a struggle..but i have a son who will be 11 in april and he deserves a mom who’s there for him 110%.. i am that mom now and i wouldn’t give that up for a mountain of coke~!
My new year’s mail resolution is to keep asking Yahoo!mail to provide us with a service so that we can bounce back all them unwanted spam emails. If we had this facility, hopefully the spammers would think it a waste of time using our email addresses because it would just fill up their inbox more than it would ours. What a perfect world it would be if this could happen!
I think it is a very good service
I wish that Yahoo Mail wil get the posibility to, automaticly check my other acounts. Then I can see what’s going on from me Yahoo Go on the phone, when iam on the run.
All the best and happy 2008,
Florian.
One of my mail resolutions would have to be to hold on to emails that came with website registrations. I once entered this online contest and I received an email from the organizers that I was a finalist. I wasn’t too interested by the time I received word because I just joined for the sake of joining (Hehe), but dang, I absent-mindedly deleted the email! I guess I just wanted to keep my inbox clean (I always do, surprisingly. Most of the people I know don’t use the folders!). I forgot though that Yahoo! Mail has unlimited storage and I could have just made a new folder where I can move that email to. I kind of regret deleting it, for recollection’s sake.
3 Things:
When will I be able to launch a video / audio file right from my mail (like I can today in Gmail and Hotmail) without having to download the file?
Need even tighter integration with Yahoo Calendar. You are much better at this then either of the above mentioned competiors, but keep improving.
Lastly, how soon will my Yahoo mail function like Jerry’s did at CES? I can’t wait.
I’ll delete every item that comes from the future… in all seriousness your spam filters should be doing this already, but mysteriously they aren’t so I’ll have to go with that resolution for the time being.
On tiding up the address book a remove duplicates button would come handy, I remember I’ve contacted support on a “leaked” help page on that subject but they said that the feature wasn’t ready yet. That makes me wonder why has the address book remained so “Classic”.
Hi Lindasy,
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Can you be more descriptive about how you want to tidy up those folders?
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RyanK
ALX,
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I understand that you are going for emphasis here, but spamming the comments area or adding extraneous letters to words isn’t the answer.
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As I mentioned in the comments section on the last post, I communicate your feedback to the appropriate teams and will provide updates as soon as I can.
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RyanK
to have perfect attendance at work,and hopefully find a marriage minded woman..(wishful thinking huh)
My Y!Mail new years resolution will be to keep on using Y!Mail Classic until the Beta works well in Opera Web Browser. :P
i like to here your feedback on this one but are u really going answer or just stay quiet
i hope no i wish yahoomail can give me and rest of yahoomail user imap and improve spam filter and better speed on dial-up , broadband,yahoo mail plus also most important improve customer service feedback so we can get better respone within hours or days and less ads on are yahoo mail if that possible ryan k u and i know this what all yahoomail user if u want keep the yahoo mail user base happy ryan k i know u notice people are leaving yahoo mail cause of these reason tell yahoo prouduct team if they can improve some or all resolution ryan k i know u hear us but give us result or yahoomail is just going to be a sitting duck i love yahoo mail this why im so annoy why u yahoo mail product team dont get it maybe cause busniess reason but wake up real fast gmail is growing dont get to happy ccause u have 250 million people using yahoo mail RyaN K CaN u Bring these resolution for 2008 Do you Hearrrrrrrrrrrrrrr us Nowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
mine is to tidy up my folders