Some All-New features in the All-New Yahoo! Mail

March 14th, 2008 at 12:20 pm

Suggestion for a missing feature. How about auto spell check before sending.

March 14th, 2008 at 12:32 pm

That ‘Download All’ option has been much needed! Awesome! It would be great to get thumbnail previews when hovering over the image attachment link. Or, some sort of way to tell which image is which other than counting. It would be great for those emails with tons of pics! Thanks for the great work Yahoo Mail Team!

March 14th, 2008 at 12:59 pm

Aye aye. Great work on the Download All feature.

March 14th, 2008 at 1:00 pm

Hi Ryan,

Well, I have been a yahoo.ca user for several years now. I run a mac OS 10.4.11 and Safari 3. But, I have yet to see any way to change my “Classic” Yahoo Mail into “New” Yahoo Mail?

I contacted tech support and they told me there should be a link on the initial page at the top …or in the options section. But several times around I had to tell them that such links do not show up? I think they thought I was using Windows? After emphasizing I use a Mac I never heard back.

Could this be a Yahoo.CA problem???

Can you shed any light on how I might move my current Yahoo account “Up” to “New” Yahoo Mail??

Lindsay in Canada

March 14th, 2008 at 1:04 pm

How about you and Mozilla start supporting standards?

March 14th, 2008 at 2:35 pm

It would be nice to be able to filter just your unread messages and, THEN, sort just the unread messages by name, subject, or whatever method one would like. You could do this in the classic version, why not the “enhanced” version???

March 14th, 2008 at 2:54 pm

Auto-saving drafts - EUREKA!!! This is wonderful! I’ve been noticing the little msgs with the time stamp; this is a terrific enhancement. If we could do the automatic spell check before sending option, I couldn’t ask for anything more

March 14th, 2008 at 3:04 pm

The download all and auto-save are incredible enhancements to the user experience, especially for those of us using Y! Mail in a high-volume, mission-critical way. I spotted them straight-away when they occurred and mumbled something akin to “Oh, dude. That’s sweet.”

This is a grade-a property hands down. If only I could pull my exchange mail through it.

Thanks.

March 14th, 2008 at 3:27 pm

too bad i cant use any of these features, since my mailbox hasnt worked in the past hour that ive been trying.

wtf…what good is a “were working on it” message if it takes this long to work on it??

March 14th, 2008 at 6:02 pm

Now if the mail would load so I do not have to continually go back to Classic!!!

March 14th, 2008 at 6:20 pm

Things I Miss in All-New Yahoo! Mail: Open Message in New Window.
It used to be there. Now I am sad.

Things I Find Just Weird in All-New Yahoo! Mail: When reading in tabbed message mode (I almost never use the “Reading Pane”), I can view “Standard Header” or “Compact Header” of the tabbed message I am reading, but if I ask to see the “Full Headers” I am shown the headers of the message selected in the folder window, which is not necessarily the one I am reading and from which tab I’ve made that request…?

March 14th, 2008 at 8:07 pm

When saving to the draft folder with names in the BCC line and then going back to the draft to retrieve the email message, the BCC names that were chosen originally are not there any more. Any comments. Andy

March 14th, 2008 at 8:43 pm

Great additions …. But most needed for me now is free POP3 and IMAP support.

March 14th, 2008 at 9:09 pm

Would like to be able to filter using

if not from “people in contacts list” move to folder….
so my inbox will only contain messages from people I know

I can put the names in but do not want to type in all those names.

Also - calendar - why can’t these invitations be accepted by outlook and vice versa so I can keep personal and work calendars all the same

March 15th, 2008 at 12:15 am

hello

March 15th, 2008 at 12:45 am

Things I Miss in All-New Yahoo! Mail: Open Message in New Window.
Why in the world was this most useful feature removed?

March 15th, 2008 at 1:10 am

Please can some one tel me how to get shot of the McAfee programme that isn’t there when the icon is as well as the spyware (http://www.virusheat.com/?aff=1012) as apart from launching the preverbial exocet at it l can’t get shot of it. The protection that l get from BT says it’s up to date but isn’t active because of the McAfee, it by the way is the 2007 version 8 in 1 protection. Any suggestions would be very grateful.

Don’t use the virus link above as it is the bain of my life.

March 15th, 2008 at 5:54 am

I’ve been waiting for the Download All! Thanks so much!

March 15th, 2008 at 7:59 am

ok well ummm right now my yahoo mail sucks its not even working
grrr im sooo mad right now and i dont need to be

March 15th, 2008 at 10:50 am

The problem with “attaching” more than 1 file still exists…For ex. if some1 wants to attach (say) 5 files, he/she needs to do so in 5 times..!! the Ctrl button doesn’t work (to select them at once)..

Thx

March 15th, 2008 at 11:01 am

Save draft emails to a calender, set it to be auto sent on future dates.

EX: Sunday i sit and draft emails for various events/engagements i am already aware of and set auto send date for Wednesday. If not i can set for the email to pop up on Tuesday for me to edit or delete.

March 15th, 2008 at 1:28 pm

Hi Yahoo guys!

2 problems: First, the Signature doesn’t save Romanian characters (Unicode). Something like “ţ” or “ş” must be saved also, as these characters are part of Romanian or Turkish or other languages. Secondly, it will be great if the Subjects written by the users could be saved and recalled later. For example, I have to write everytime the same subject to a friend of mine, instead of just writing the first letter(s) and the subject to be insterted automatically.

You should fix these 2 issues as they are important for the Yahoo Mail users.

Regards,
((Gabriel))

March 15th, 2008 at 2:18 pm

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March 15th, 2008 at 6:52 pm

Thanks for updating Yahoo! Mail.
But, please do no add spell check before sending. It is horrible in Microsoft Outlook. My browser checks as I type and that is much more efficient. A lot of the proper names, abbreviations or acronyms just slow down the sending of email. The worst are ones associated with my job. It is a pain to have the program go through every one and make me decide 20 times per message if I should add or ignore them.

Thanks

March 15th, 2008 at 7:55 pm

I get emails at weird delays, sometimes over a week after they were sent. Why?

Also, at work, new Yahoo email hangs and fails to load in the middle of opening a message so that the graphics are not visible and it causes all my other open browser windows to be stuck on their respective pages (cannot go to another page), until I close the Yahoo email browser window, what a pain! Why does this happen?

March 16th, 2008 at 12:14 am

I was suing, and liked the new mail. But When I started playing an game where I had to send encrypted game turns to an opponent, I had to switch back to classic. The virus scanning interpreted either the password protection, or the encryption as a virus and would not allow me to attach the turns to email msgs.

I had to revert back to classic and can send these turns.

Emails to support basicly said I probably had virus in attachment but that simply isn’t the case, based on scans by both me and the recipient using multiple different virus scanner.

Rick

March 16th, 2008 at 3:40 am

It would be really great if you could add read receipt for all those important emails that we really need to know are opened.
Thanks

March 16th, 2008 at 5:23 am

I unfortunately clicked on new BT Yahoo, and now can’t compose an e-mail, can’t get back to classic, and none of the ‘buttons’ work

help, please

March 16th, 2008 at 5:54 am

I implore you to PLEASE add back in the new Yahoo E-mail feature:

Open Message in New Window.

Why in the world was this most useful feature removed? Now I have to scroll back and forth to read some of the messages that don’t fit entirely into the window. And PLEASE don’t tell me I have to pay for this feature that existed in the initial free version.

March 16th, 2008 at 6:10 am

Wow! I luvvvvvv new Y! Mail. It is so much easier to make e-mail and customise. Thank you for bring it to us!

March 16th, 2008 at 6:44 am

Thanks for fixing the Birthday Bug.

All we miss now is Gmail’s Conversation look.
Can you do that?

Thanks.

March 16th, 2008 at 7:41 am

while I agree with the idea of improving Yahoo Mail would like to know why the changes were made without considering the impact of these changes on users with progressive bifocals? ralph cox

March 16th, 2008 at 2:07 pm

Just checked, Still no Opera Browser support.

Please, do something about it.
Thanks.

March 16th, 2008 at 2:15 pm

I like Mr Mcgovern above clicked on new BT Yahoo and now cannot compose an e-mail have lost my draft e-mail and cannot return to classic and the buttons do not work I also would like some help please.

March 16th, 2008 at 2:24 pm

Two suggestions that would make life a little easier would be

(1) ability to list addresses specifically NOT to be sent to spam - sometimes BCC of my own messages goes to spam, and my regular yahoo address gets spammed by my recipients

(2) acknowledgment when recipient reads mail

Thanks

March 16th, 2008 at 6:20 pm

Please bring back the open message in new window feature! Thanks! Looking good otherwise!

March 17th, 2008 at 3:48 am

Please help - like a few others I now cannot create a new mail. None of my buttons work in the new format and I keep getting error messages. Please respond. thanks

March 17th, 2008 at 5:48 am

Maybe it works in Firefox 3 Beta, but you broke it for Firefox 2. In Firefox 2, all emails appear to be blank. I had to switch back to Classic in order to read email.

March 17th, 2008 at 6:37 am

Please. Please auto check external accounts.

Also on the iPhone why don’t folders other than Inbox display that there are new messages in them? That might be an apple issue. But I like progress. Let’s keep it up over there.

March 17th, 2008 at 8:45 pm

YAY MORE FEATURES!

March 18th, 2008 at 3:02 am

When is the Firefox 3 betas crash issue going to be resolved? Crashes Firefox on Windows & Linux in seconds, it’s all over the internet. What’s that about? What is the cause of the continuous crashes?

March 18th, 2008 at 6:07 am

Dear mail community guy,

How about the basics first:

1. HUGE issue with new e-mail. I have a commercial (paid) Yahoo! small biz package. When I log in to web mail, it always defaults to an e-mail address that I DON’T want to check first. I would love an option that didn’t force me to change accounts when I first log in.

This is especially impossible on my Treo, where the web browser only lets me see the first acocunt and where yahoo mobile mail only lets me chekc the first account.

2. How about NO BANNER ADS on paid mail? I pay each month, take the darned ads away!

Thanks,

Gary

March 18th, 2008 at 10:35 am

Please, please bring back the open message in new window feature! Would like an explanation of why it was removed in the first place.

Thanks!

March 18th, 2008 at 7:50 pm

For God’s sake, give us some way to turn OFF that damned auto-save to drafts feature!! When I’m typing “90 miles an hour” trying to get my work done (yes, I PAY for Yahoo for my business), and that draft auto-save starts saving what I’ve typed, it’s just like I ran into a ROAD BLOCK, and you might just as well have cut me off at the knees, or landed a hard body blow to my stomach. I come to a screeching halt, and have to wait til it catches up. Then I have to see what actually typed and what didn’t, and what mistakes I made while typing and not being able to see what’s hitting the screen.

While you’re at it, how about giving us the control to turn off that horribly annoying habit of auto Checking for Mail?? I’m still nursing along an older computer, and have only a satellite system (they really are NOT as fast as DSL…), and my computer virtually freezes while the Checking for Mail is going on. And I’ll be damned if I’m going to sign out of Yahoo Mail to work on something else, when I have to go back to check for emails every 10-15 minutes. It’s not fair to me to freeze my other programs when your program is doing something I do not need done at that time.

This urge you have to “improve” everything shows up with no user controls, as is the case with most everything nowadays. Those of us with limited computer skills (i.e. non-geek) are stuck with what you give us. Same thing goes for spam filters (see AOL). I’m sick and tired of being essentially told that I don’t know HOW to control when I should check for emails, and you’ll do it for me. Same with the auto-save feature. Same with spam filters (ah, yes, the aforementioned AOL who filters out 60% of my eBay invoices I send…).

Think about ALL the end users for a change, not just how clever you guys are. While these features are certainly useful, and maybe so to a majority of your customers, keep in mind that they might not be useful to ALL of your customers, and figure out some way to alleviate problems, instead of create them.

I can and will use these features, but I want to use them on MY terms/schedule, not yours. You can’t possibly know my work schedule/habits, and how much timing can interfere.

Stop holding my hand, telling me you’ll push the buttons for me, HAND ME THE REMOTE!!!

March 19th, 2008 at 8:27 am

New features were a shock, and unasked for, but I have a couple of questions…how do I move messages from my spambox to my inbox?…and how do I increase the scroll speed when I’m searching for the folders to move my messages?…it’s annoying to operate at the set speed.

March 19th, 2008 at 7:31 pm

Better Opera support Please. :^)

March 20th, 2008 at 12:27 am

I am very pleased that Yahoo finally!!!! released Download All feature, but if they will make it work right it will be perfect.

I have an email with 14Mb of images and I cannot download them at all!!!!!!!!!
I am waiting for Scanning all attachments to finish but it seems it will take forever.
Also what it so difficult to make thumbnail views of photos from the attachments.

March 20th, 2008 at 9:50 am

Any chance there’s an executable on the horizon for Yahoo that’s like Gmail Notifier? If I get busy I can easily go a day or two without remembering to check my yahoo account. But with Gmail Notifier I never miss gmail because it tells me when I’ve got mail. It would have to be something that sits unobtrusively in the system tray, no ads, and doesn’t get tripped up by my firewall or security.

March 21st, 2008 at 3:59 am

My biggest request to Yahoo Mail would be:

- allow a ’simple fast html only’ version that is modern.

I don’t mean classic, that just doesnt work well.

I agree with the other views about it slowing down, taking a long time to load, etc. Its great at home, but when on the move its real sluggish.

March 21st, 2008 at 5:00 am

I noticed the Auto Save doesn’t time stamp when the draft contains attachments. Hard to tell if it’s still autosaving or isn’t because of the attachments, and switching out to the Drafts folder to check can often times be disasterous for the unsaved message.

March 21st, 2008 at 11:33 am

Hi everyone,
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I am passing along a lot of great feedback from this week, and will be go over it in more detail with the product manager for New Mail (to make sure he fully understands the specifics of each).
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Thanks again!
-
Ryan

March 23rd, 2008 at 7:09 am

i’d like to have the “multi message forward” feature, like that i can forward all the bulk mail to a reporting address (knujon) in just 1 click.

March 24th, 2008 at 5:05 am

odd, Yahoo’s never acted up on me…well except that first time i started using Firefox 3 (back in Beta 3)

March 24th, 2008 at 2:08 pm

Great stuff. But how about adding a labels feature like Gmail has? I find it more useful than mail folders. But since Yahoo! already has mail folders, you could add labels and have the best of both!

March 24th, 2008 at 7:23 pm

re: BCC emails
Would it be possible to have the BCC email addresses visible to me, as the sender, in emails in the Sent folder? It’s good for referencing old emails, instead of having to guess who I sent the email too.

I love the other updates! Auto-save is great!!!

Keep up the great work.

March 25th, 2008 at 11:10 am

We are having difficulty reaching Yahoo! Mail from home since March 22, 2008. It is sporadic at best. I can’t check it from work due to the firewall. Our ISP states they are not having the problem. I’m running McAffee Virus and Spy Sweeper. Help!

April 1st, 2008 at 3:04 pm

A drag-and drop feature to add attachments to mail would be very nice. Just a wish…

April 2nd, 2008 at 1:41 am

Cool features

April 2nd, 2008 at 2:05 pm

somebody has stolening my yahoo account so i need help geting it back.

April 4th, 2008 at 10:34 am

Whenever I want to download picutes with a email on attachments and do browser, I get dropped over and over and can’t send more than a couple at a time.

I have to start from the beginning of my email.

Also a lot of “This page can’t be……………

April 7th, 2008 at 6:38 am

Now that we can download all attachments in one step, I’d like to see the ability to attach more than one file at a time, too!

April 11th, 2008 at 8:52 pm

The only feature missing now is getting rid of that vile vertical banner that clogs the reading space and won’t go away.

April 18th, 2008 at 1:28 am

I agree with Nancy. I’ve had my Yahoo Email account for 10+ years and the Gmail Notifier for OSX is a wonderful feature that would that allows you to preview New Incoming Email Headlines. At the moment, I keep my browser open at all times because I like to see my incoming emails although this is a waste for the CPU and Memory. Currently Yahoo Mail Widgets simply do not emulate what Gmail Notifier accomplishes. I really hope a Yahoo Notifier will be created in the future to compete with the Gmail Notifier. Life would be so grand and that way I wouldn’t have to succumb to Gmail!

Please Yahoo Team consider this feature =)

April 24th, 2008 at 12:13 pm

One of my main gripes with the New Yahoo Mail is that there is no option for me to set the default in how I want the messages to appear… I want my new messages at the bottom- and I don’t want to have to sort by date everytime I check mail, or when I go from one folder to the next.

Also- is there ANY hope of bringing Photo Mail back? Especially when working in a field where photos are a necessity- being able to drag and drop the photo’s in the actual email instead of doing attachments was SOOOO much better!