There’s a very good chance that many of you have already noticed, but just in case you haven’t, I’m here with some delightful news for my fellow Mac users. Yahoo! Mail, a key starting point for millions of people around the world, is now fully accessible from Safari 3.0 on the Mac!
Our guys have been working feverishly to make sure that everything works as intended. Some have even made the occasional trip down the road to “The Mother-ship” (as many a Mac enthusiast has called it), but none were nice enough to bring me any gear from their company store. 
I guess I’ll just have to make a trip myself. Anyway … back to the subject at hand.
The rollout is already underway, and we hope to have the updates out to most of you within the next couple weeks. Once it’s completed, folks running the most recent update of Tiger (OS 10.4.11), as well as those using any version of Leopard (OS 10.5.x), will have a version of Safari that plays nice with the All-New Yahoo! Mail. Or maybe it’s a version of Safari that the All-New Mail plays nice with. Either way, they are pals now, and that’s what really matters.
Of course Mac users could already use Safari to access Mail Classic, and Firefox to access both, but with this roll-out, the latest version of the world’s most popular Webmail service will be available to an even broader audience of Mac users.
There are some other enhancements that aren’t Mac specific, so be on the lookout. I’ll be back with more news on that soon.
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Ryan Knight Community Manager Yahoo! Mail |
I am just going bonkers with Safari (I just got a MacBook) and Yahoo! mail….I echo everyone’s frustration since Pam posted her comments on the lack of autocompletion of email addresses..I absolutely hate having to pull up the address book, find the email address I need and putting a check mark and then “insert” address into the “To” field……. WHAT IS GOING ON!?!?!?! Is there a workaround? PLEASE HELP US!!!!!!
I was told by Yahoo technical support that the lack of ‘auto-fill’ was a Safari issue. Be fully aware, it is a YAHOO issue.
Tell me, Ryan, how are millions of people using Safari across the world unable to enjoy auto-fill on yahoo mail? I’ve been a yahoo user for years, but this is enough of a reason to make me switch to Google. You guys have been late to the game in most categories, and speaking constructively, you need to get organized. Step one is fixing this auto-complete issue within the next 2-4 weeks. I’m certain that I’m not the only Yahoo user you risk losing…
we purchased recently Apple desktop hoping for less frustration after problems with Vista.
Only- all the years we were using Windows and Apple is another hurdle to overcome. WHy these companies cannot agree on one “language” and
simplify things so those who are not into computers could spend time doing what they know and could be much more helpful to the community?
Rre-learning reminds me of kiddie games of Jap Nintendo this and that,
always something a bit different, not able to use it on the “old” machine,
our children were without TV! I’d read them and unfortunately they did never live in vacuum, thus got always their share of ridicule from other children. I got that part. They were, however, ridiculed by their teachers and it was difficult to keep my attitude when they needed always to keep their teachers in good standing…
to your post: iphone – did not hear too many good things about it, and cannot get more technical.
The entire Europe uses a program called SKYPE. Haven’t tried it, but apparently it’s not difficult?
Does anyone know what this involves and how it works?
The loss of the autocomplete address feature is really annoying. Is that going to be fixed?
Echoing Rich above about the autcomplete feature and having to look up each email address. After a lapse of several weeks I finally got a response to my Help request (and I am a paying member) about clearing the cache, etc but none of it worked.
WHy did my yahoo mail stop searching since the past few months.It only finds items from the last month or so.
Hello!
FYI…The autocomplete feature in the To: field when entering an e-mail address is no longer available for Yahoo Mail on Macs. It worked before. Now we have to look up e-mail addresses that we once typed in. If that feature could be added again, it would be a great time saver. Thanks for considering!
Rich
Does anyone know how to make the autocomplete feature work for the Safari browser on a Mac? (when you type beside “TO” and enter “a”, all saved emails with that letter appear in a list).
[...] a Yahoo! Mail user and a Safari 3 user, prepare to smile, because Yahoo! says that you can now get in on the “All-New Yahoo! Mail” fun. “All-New Yahoo! Mail” is apparently an AJAX-based, slick piece of webmail software [...]
[...] a Yahoo! Mail user and a Safari 3 user, prepare to smile, because Yahoo! says that you can now get in on the “All-New Yahoo! Mail” fun. “All-New Yahoo! Mail” is apparently an AJAX-based, slick piece of webmail software [...]
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ummm ok heres the thing the NEW yahoo mail is not as good as the old one but i like the new one better b/c the new one is better but it needs alot done to it before it will be great
there needs to be more fonts and it needs to load faster and it needs to give you your mail as soon as it is sent or at least a few minutes after but i’ll be waiting for something for evvvvvvvver!!
GET MORE FONTS
ummm ok heres the thing the NEW yahoo mail is not as good as the old one but i like the new one better b/c the new one is better but it needs alot done to it before it will be great
there needs to be more fonts and it needs to load faster and it needs to give you your mail as soon as it is sent or at least a few minutes after but i’ll be waiting for something for evvvvvvvver!!
Have just started using a Mac and am happy to see that I can access my Yahoo mail using Safari – but there are still a number of “bugs”.
– Big scroll bar appears after attaching a file blocking the displayed name of the attached file
– Can’t arrow down the suggested auto-fill list for email addresses to choose one lower on the list
– Have to switch to full message view to see what is attached. Otherwise all you see is a paperclip.
Why isn’t there an easy place to contact Yahoo in case of an emergency? I cannot log on to my account and I have been looking for 2 days now trying to find a place to contact you. What if my account has been comprimised? You can’t contact me via email so how do I get an answer? Phone number please? You may contact me via my boyfriends email at dfarmboy2003@yahoo.com
So…does this help me make Yahoomail my default email when I’m using Safari? I really don’t want to have to subscribe to .Mac.
Opera support??
So…does this help me make Yahoomail my default email when I’m using Safari? I really don’t want to have to subscribe to .Mac.
[...] a Yahoo! Mail user and a Safari 3 user, prepare to smile, because Yahoo! says that you can now get in on the “All-New Yahoo! Mail” fun. “All-New Yahoo! Mail” is apparently an AJAX-based, slick piece of webmail software [...]
Sorry, but not for Safari 3.04 for Windows. It still gives me a web page that says I’m using an unsupported browser. It allows me to click through, however, and with a small problem allows me to use all of the beta features without problem.
The problem is not consistent, but causes the mail client to be unable to access my account.