Update to Yahoo! Mail Classic has Resumed

April 24th, 2008 at 9:43 am

Help there is a bug with browser services since the update cannot email from a link in a webpage or send a webpage using file/send/page by email with IE7. I get the mail welcome page in lieu of a open draft with the parties email in the to: line, or the webpage file attached in the one step you say this update will facilitate. I have contacted help case KMM123618870V57327L0KM they dont seem to get it. I have everything up to snuff on my computers. wait something has changed, the last time i tried i got the draft/compose page, but no emial adress in the to line.

April 24th, 2008 at 9:51 am

Also, I’ve discovered problems with the signature function. Color and font treatments cannot be applied. Try to do ‘anything’ to customize your (new or existing) signature and Y! Mail will say the signature is “too long” and cannot be accommodated. This is irrespective of actual character count, of course. I’ve called this to the attention of Y! The reply was that they have no immediate fix; they’re looking into it. Sort of annoying, I must say.

April 24th, 2008 at 11:18 am

Looking forward to one click attachments. How bout some help with the dreaded red X.

Jim P

April 24th, 2008 at 11:44 am

(Hopefully this is the correct place to post this… if not please let me know.)

I am *not* a techie person, so please bear with me as I try to explain my gripes.

I am/have been a devout Yahoo user… mail, toolbar, bookmarks, yahoogroups, search, home page, stock watching and more for almost as long as yahoo has had mail!

The Yahoo Classic (with a twist) has me twisting my hair out in clumps! I am the owner of several yahoogroups- we do NOT allow attachments because of virus/inappropriate attachments etc… and now because of the “upgrade” many people are getting their posts returned because they are being told the group won’t accept attachments (posts written in Rich Text) There was nothing wrong with the way it was before. It is a royal pain in the keester to have to remember to change your message to Plain Text each time you reply.

The removal of the ability to create a category when you send an email to a whole list of people is also a step backwards.

Previously if you sent an email to a category that had too many names it had all of them listed in the TO: box and you could cull some names or even do a cut/ then just paste the remaining addresses in the new mail.

So far all of the things that are supposed to make it better have made Yahoo Mail more cumbersome and not user friendly for the most part.

April 24th, 2008 at 11:49 am

I have never had stationery or anything else Classic mail is supposed to offer.

April 24th, 2008 at 12:43 pm

Anyone notice how in the new mail classic version, plain text emails are being read in a huge font like size 14? I have noticed this in every plain text email from what use to be a size 10 (normal). This was never a problem in the old version of classic.

Any solution or fixes to this?

April 24th, 2008 at 12:48 pm

the categories no longer work!!! this is a huge pain in the butt!!! not sure if i am doing something wrong, but for fun a created a new one and it works but none, i repete, none of the categories that are more than a day old don’t work. we use yahoo for our outdoor club as a way to communicate and we are at a halt and its camping season!
do i have to recreate everything?!?!?

April 24th, 2008 at 1:15 pm

How do I change back to the new email? All the help entries take about a link to new mail, but I have nothing. And classic is so buggy that I can’t use it.

April 24th, 2008 at 2:02 pm

I am curious as to why my fiance has the new yahoo mail classic, how did he get it and when can I?
please help

Thanx

April 24th, 2008 at 3:26 pm

Oh! I was so horrified at the way the New Mail rollout went that I took refuge in the Classic, hoping that it might, at least, stay up and running right. Looks like Classic is now under fire, too. That’s too bad.

April 24th, 2008 at 4:03 pm

I wish that classic had stayed the same,i am having problems with the msft word

April 24th, 2008 at 4:04 pm

I hate the mail as it is now, don’t know what you want to call it, but I call it worthless. I want my mail the old way or I’m off it.

April 24th, 2008 at 4:11 pm

Have made a few attempts to convey my problems to support and other aves…figured I would try here as well.

I use Freecycle and find that I can only read freecycle and the name of town as that is all that fits in the title line now…(I also filter it to the trash, so I can easily get rid of it if I don’t happen to ck). I use to be able to scan thru the titles and just open what looked interesting, but now I would have to open each one. I too am getting the BIG fonts when I open emails. I find the changes very inconvenient and would love a button to keep the old format. Yahoo was always the best and I have had my account for ages, but I am VERY dissappointed that you folks are making changes to something that isn’t broke. You remind me of ebay, I just hope you listen better than they do.
Thanks, Mark

April 24th, 2008 at 5:11 pm

I miss having my avitar on the mail page. Now I only see it on the my yahoo and games page.

April 24th, 2008 at 5:13 pm

Hello Ryan,
 
 
 
I am a very old user of Yahoo Mail! I use free version of Yahoo Mail. As I have noticed, my friends with latest free accounts have got POP and Forwarding options with their mail, but I don’t have any such option in mine. Why is it so? Is there any way or chance that I expect that option on mine? Are you aware of that or ignored?
 
 
 
 
 
Thank You

April 24th, 2008 at 5:51 pm

There are (at least) two problems with the “classic” Yahoo! email.

1) You can no longer alter the column width of the message.
2) When you right click on Compose Mail from My Yahoo to open a window, what comes up is Yahoo Mail instead.

A little (more?) QA would have prevented these functional degradations from happening. Personally, I’d rather not lose functionality than have new “cute” features.

April 24th, 2008 at 6:03 pm

Pavan-

I agree. It’s troublesome that free accounts such as GMAIL offer POP and IMAP for free.

This bugs me to no end.

I honestly believe that Yahoo has no intention of ever making making POP free or implementing IMAP in some form, free or not.

April 24th, 2008 at 7:04 pm

Don’t know what you mean by web site!

I don’t like the classis at all.

One of many reasons is that when I enter the “List”-”Contacts” in the BCC, such as “Sprcial Friends”, I then send it to DRAFT and then reopen it in order to cut any names, especially if the person who sent me the orgianl is on that list. When I reopen it, it dosen’t show the BCC list of names. I would like an option to the OLD/Previous e-mail style, the same option that we now have for the NEW Yahoo on ‘MY.Yahoo.

April 24th, 2008 at 9:46 pm

I don’t understand why the new Classic had to delete the Comic Sans font that the old one had, yet the new one has available the Symbol font, which is unreadable to recipients. Please bring back Comic Sans!

April 25th, 2008 at 4:13 am

Ryan-

This isn’t relevant to your blog post, but to whom should I speak to about sluggish Y! Mail Plus SMTP servers? My mails often time out in Thunderbird, and it’s driving me up the wall!

-Mickey.

April 25th, 2008 at 5:42 am

you guys provide a great service ( and its free ) but i have a little prob. I am trying to sign into my mail service but it continues to redirect me to the login screen. Is this because of the updates coming or am i missing something else?.

thanks.

April 25th, 2008 at 6:45 am

I am a very old user of Yahoo Mail! I use free version of Yahoo Mail.At present i see that it was taken too much time to open INBOX every time.What is the reason?

April 25th, 2008 at 7:08 am

I also do not like the “new features”. I liked Yahoo Mail the way it was and the new look is not attractive. It may be hard to believe, but Yahoo got it right the first time for me — i also love my Yahoo home page and feel like i’m constantly warring to keep my very old, classic page. I don’t like the look or feel of the new pages, new new beta pages anymore than i like the new mail.

April 25th, 2008 at 7:44 am

The auto-save to draft option is very very useful, thanks a lot!

@EM: Yahoo doesn’t offer POP for free, but Gmail doesn’t offer unlimited storage for free :p

April 25th, 2008 at 8:30 am

I have several non-yahoo email addresses that feed intto 1 non-yahoo address and are then sent to Yahoo. I have the Plus service and was able to choose amongst those addresses to reply or compose. Now that appears to be impossible. Also, for forwarding, my signature appears before the forwaded message.

I can’t believe I own stock in Yahoo because this change has really produced havoc.

April 25th, 2008 at 9:34 am

For the record, I have tried the heavily promoted NEW Web 2.0 Yahoo! Mail many, many times on many, many computers using various operating systems. It has never once functioned as advertised. It’s been slow, buggy, unpredictable. Which is why I absolutely favor the simplicity of my Y! Mail Plus account (the so-called Classic). Any degradation of that service is ‘not’ welcome. And while I’m at it, I should note that I much prefer my old-line ‘My Yahoo’ page, which has been mightily customized by me, to the newer Y! portal that the company is backing. Listen, team, I love NEW! NEW! NEW! stuff as much as the next guy, but never at the sake of user-friendliness. Thanks, and please keep the focus on your Classic products.

April 25th, 2008 at 10:18 am

ryan k why is yahoo hasnt update thier calendar intergrated in the new yahoo mail and the classic version and why is it that everytime in yahoo mail that i click a link in either new mail or classic i get new window why cant u simply create a new tab its better that way cant u tell yahoo mail team its best option for yahoo mail user oh yeah i heard the news today i love how yahoo going open up thier site for others apps by end of the year and also can u lest us user know if u going to be any news with u reducing spam :)

April 25th, 2008 at 10:21 am

Allowing Yahoo mail to be module driven, so that we could design it the way we want it would be the best for me. I don’t need news on my mail page, I don’t need cutsie icons. I would like to see a help menu (How do I…?) that could be accessed quickly. I’m good with the system as it is. I don’t like the NEW Yahoo look. I’d like to be able to go back to original Classic if I don’t like the proposed changes. Please give us this option. D.R.

April 25th, 2008 at 11:33 am

I am a very disgruntled member. You promised new fonts with the Yahoo upgrade, but zip,zilch, zero, nada. What a ripoff. I have the same few font styles I had before the upgrade. What gives Yahoo?

April 25th, 2008 at 11:35 am

Dear Yahoo! Mail Classic useres,

I don’t get it. Why do you resist the change so much? If you take the time to learn the new changes (which doesn’t take very long especially with all the very helpful tutorials) you’ll see why Yahoo is making them. Most things in the new Yahoo! Mail take one click or key stroke that usually takes 2 or 3 in classic. Much more efficient. Yahoo! is just trying to make things easier for you, but because you don’t take the time to learn this, you complain and get stuck in your old, inefficient ways. Stop all the complaining and start learning and using emial to it’s full potential.
-Tripp

April 25th, 2008 at 11:54 am

With the latest Classic “upgrade”, when I hit the “spam” button on an incoming message, it gets moved to that spam folder. The previous implementation of simultaneously deleting the message is superior. I want the spam folder for system-detected spam because the system often makes mistakes. If I mark a message spam, there is no doubt that it is spam and should be immediately deleted.

April 25th, 2008 at 1:40 pm

I like the new set up, but I have been having problems receiving emails in the last month. My widget mail checker will tell me I have new messages but nothing comes up in the inbox. Also, people email me and then ask me later why they didn’t get a response from me. Why? Because I never received the emails in the first place! It’s really frustrating please, please fix it.

April 25th, 2008 at 1:47 pm

Is it not possible to restore the - printable view- button in New Yahoomail Classic? I am traveling a lot and don’t have internet access always, like most travellers. Now New Yahoo Classic is more complicated to save email on USB stick or on my Notebook then the old Yahoo. This can not be the target of something new…..
If it does not change I really have to consider an other email provider. Would be a shame, working alreaddy more than 10 year with Yahoo, and was always satisfied. Till now!

Greetings, Klaas

April 25th, 2008 at 3:04 pm

It would be nice if we had reassurances from Yahoo regarding IMAP instead of just acknowledgements that we’re being heard.

Gmail offers FREE IMAP already. Why does Yahoo Mail therefore still feel the need to keep its plans for offering IMAP secret? Yahoo has the customers to lose and Gmail has the customers to gain. For the life of me, I can’t understand why Yahoo doesn’t want to reassure its customers that it will “feature match” its competition instead of keeping things secret.

@Royal: Unlimited capacity? Gmail is at 6660.012421 MBytes and rising by the second. That seems pretty unlimited to me. That plus free pop/imap/forwarding blows Yahoo away.

April 25th, 2008 at 3:10 pm

I have the same problem as ‘oa’. When I try to log in I get re-directed to the log-in screen. It’s an intermittent problem. Sometimes I get in OK, sometimes I don’t - it’s been happening for at least 6 months now, after years of happy use. I can get into all my other favourite Yahoo pages first time, every time - but not Mail. I first reported it to Yahoo mid-December 2007, and reported it again last week. I’m starting to chew nails and spit rust!
Cheers, Pete

April 25th, 2008 at 3:55 pm

HELP!! I live in a safe house for abused women and the new firewall recently installed blocks Yahoo Mail because of the chat client in it (or so I’m told). My problem is that I can’t switch to Classic email without being able to get into it in the first place. Is there a way to get into Classic mail mode from the outside without signing in first?

April 25th, 2008 at 4:32 pm

Tripp -
It is not that we don’t wish to try the New email. The problem is that the print is so small it is uncomfortable to read. Granted, I am obviously much older than you … but there are probably many, many folks your age who also have eye problems. Please take a moment to consider other people instead of only your own point of view!

April 25th, 2008 at 6:37 pm

Unfortunately, the New Classic mail removes a feature I relied on heavily– the ability to filter the Inbox view by mail sent from my Contacts or from Unknown Senders. I get a lot of junkmail, despite SpamGuard, so it was handy to be able to select out all the mail from people I didn’t “know”.

I’ve been tinkering with gmail for the IMAP, but I much prefer the yahoo webmail interface– or used to. If the Unknown Senders filter doesn’t come back, I’ll be switching over permanently, simply because their spam filters work so much better.

April 25th, 2008 at 10:09 pm

Hey guys……
Take it back to the shop.
It needs work.
Alot.

April 26th, 2008 at 12:48 am

Hello,

I’ve been using Yahoo! and Y! Mail for more than 10 years. I have Mail Plus to do POP access, but I don’t send large attachments. But no IMAP, for years and not even a clue about it when it will be available. GMail did that very well, free POP and IMAP access and almost unlimited space for free.
And now that “upgrade” (it should be called downgrade) to the Yahoo! Mail Classic. Just read the comment (I did, also on other sites), about 80% of the people who comment DO NOT LIKE the upgraded Mail. Neither do I. I miss those little cards next to the name of known senders. Before the upgrade, it was enough to look at those little icons, and I knew that the mail came from some of my contacts. Now I have to read the sender and the subject. Even if Y! Mail Plus has more advanced spam filter, I got a plenty spam per day and now it’s more harder and takes more time to sort out those junk e-mails. I have to read more and more the sort out my mails. Reading the spam folder is a pain again as the “View: All Messages” dropdown misses the “Show only mails from my contacts”, “Not from my contacts”, … Before the upgrade I took the time to use the drop down and browse through the spam folder. Now I won’t take the time.
I’m sending all my email BCC back to me, now it’s a one more click to show that field.

Okay, Yahoo! Mail Classic got faster (at least for me), but stepped back two steps. Oneclick flag is great, I like oneclick attachment download also. But oneclick spam-marking would be great also.

In one word, I think I will leave the new upgraded Classic interface. I don’t like it now. A lot of people don’t like it.
Why was this “fix, if isn’t broken” necessary? The reduce server load?

Come on and make a poll what to keep and what to restore from the old Classic Mail!

This way you will loose customers/users…

April 26th, 2008 at 5:18 am

Help there is a bug with browser services since the update cannot email from a link in a webpage or send a webpage using file/send/page by email .
Please advise by return.

April 26th, 2008 at 6:21 am

Those of you complaining of slow loading in the New Mail should understand that New Mail seems to be designed for users of high-end computers with broadband internet connections. New Mail loads large, graphically active advertisements that take a long time to download and a lot of computer resources to run. About half the U.S. (and probably the majority of other users) will find this design flaw makes New Mail almost unusable. Switch back to Classic or find another email provider with a cleaner interface.

April 26th, 2008 at 11:44 am

@EM: I’ll never use Gmail anyway. I hate google adsense inside my messages, inbox design and the fact that it’s beta version since… how many years?
Yahoo is the best! :p

April 26th, 2008 at 1:08 pm

Still dont have the newest v of Classic, but now I seem to have a new and sharper look to the New Yahoo Mail, due to using the AT&T Yahoo DSL..it just showed up last night. Loads faster, sharper and cleaner graphics…but still thee huge ads. Ugh. And I pay extra to get those, too.

April 26th, 2008 at 2:13 pm

I tried to access the All-New look, but decided to opt for the Classic as I only use IE7 to check if the spam filter has worked OK before using Outlook to send and receive (and archive if necessary). Ever since trying it out and deciding it was not what I wanted, I have had problems with Outlook giving me a message that now 12 messages are not being sent.
I’ve spoken to BT Internet about this and they say it is a server issue, claiming that it’s a Microsoft problem. I’m not convinced.
Apparently I’m not the only one to have this problem. Does anyone else here know what I’m talking about?

April 26th, 2008 at 2:42 pm

What happened to the integration with AddressGuard disposable addresses? You used to be able to delete a disposable address right from the opened email message in Yahoo Mail Classic (but unfortunately, not in All New Mail, which is why I never switched). It was very convenient. Although AddressGuard is a great asset to Yahoo Mail Plus, it sure would be nice if it were easier to access within Mail.

April 26th, 2008 at 4:09 pm

Is there any version of Yahoo mail that I can access on my no-flash, no-java internet browsers at school?
Right now its a pain in the backside to try check email.. and near impossible to compose them

April 26th, 2008 at 7:55 pm

Hi Ryan!

Remember me?

It was nice meeting you a couple of weeks ago!

Anita

April 27th, 2008 at 4:07 am

In the Yahoo! Mail Classic of old, you could go directly to a message by clicking on it in your Mail Preview pane (a My Yahoo! portal module). Now, clicking on the message only takes you to the Mail page, not the actual message. In other words, this represents yet another step in the wrong direction: More clicks required, rather than fewer, to complete a simple task. The former Mail Classic worked better. (The only ‘plus’ that I’ve found with the updated version is easier activation of flags. Nice.)

April 27th, 2008 at 4:23 am

the one improvement to yahoo! i want i have seen nothing about. i want to know when a e-mail i have sent has been read. i think outlook does it and the dating sites do it why can’t yahoo!? as of now i am not able to forward or reply to e-mails. error code 2 - KMM123832768V83307L0KM. i am just a casual user of e-mail i use it to communicate with friends and family and as usual the updates don’t mean a thing to me.

April 27th, 2008 at 9:27 am

My Dear Ryan
Excellent YAHOO. In this world of competetion among giants Yahoo deserves KUDOS for their endevour to keep every consumer ‘happy’ in a way. Every one can’t afford Fast internet connection. Yahoo may be the only portal (free) who takes care of users of all categories - poor and the rich alike. Keep it up Yahoo.

April 27th, 2008 at 7:05 pm

@Royal: I don’t care if GMAIL is “BETA”. GMAIL has taken concrete steps that are significantly ahead of Yahoo Mail, such as Free POP/IMAP/Forwarding. “BETA” simply means that they’ve continued to add features to the product such as those I’ve mentioned.

Again, Yahoo Mail needs to come clean and not keep it a “company secret” about its plans to rollout these features. What’s the big secret anyway? If they plan to add these features, great… tell us, and we’ll know how long we have to wait. Think GMail cares about Yahoo’s plans to play catch up? There’s really no competitive intelligence value in keeping this information secret.

April 27th, 2008 at 7:11 pm

@Royal: There’s no reason for Yahoo to keep these plans for IMAP secret when GMAIL already offers it.

April 27th, 2008 at 7:19 pm

@Royal- I agree to a certain extent with EM. It is troubling not getting definitive information in this respect to IMAP and other features. I guess we have to trust that Yahoo is hearing our requests in this regard. I also don’t see the value in keeping the plans for rolling out these features from the Yahoo user base. I agree with EM that it would be more comforting to know that something is coming rather than not know.

April 28th, 2008 at 6:45 am

Could you make it so that Classic mail is visually appealing? The rounded corners here are ugly.

April 28th, 2008 at 1:24 pm

Until the recent “upgrade,” one could click directly to a message from the Mail Preview module in the My Yahoo! portal. Now, if you click on a link in the preview pane, it only takes you to the Y! Mail landing page. In other words, the process in ‘more’ cumbersome than it used to be. Why so?

April 28th, 2008 at 4:28 pm

thanks for all the great info on the yahoo mail blog. i really appricite yahoo mail and the all the great yahoo services.

james

April 28th, 2008 at 4:46 pm

In the new classic mail, I cannot turn on the sent items folder. I had it turned off at the time that the upgrade was made, and now there is no button from which to turn it on. I know somebody who for whatever reason did not get the automatic changes; he still has the button for turning Sent Items on and off.

Could you _please_ put back in a way to turn Sent Items on? I did not use the feature all the time but did use it sometimes. Now the folder is there, but it’s useless. No items get saved to it, and I have no way to get it to save them.

I’ve written using the contact form to the help people over and over again, and I just keep getting a form e-mail back telling me to look at the page listing changes. But this one is not mentioned.

Any help to offer? Thanks.

April 28th, 2008 at 6:31 pm

I want the following Classic features back:
1) The ability to choose to Forward a message as an attachment or In-Line. I use a spam reporting service (spamcop.net) and it REQUIRES complete
headers to report the spam to the offending spammer’s ISP(s). Without these headers, they have no way to trace the message.

2) The ability to have the “full headers” display stick between messages. I can turn on headers on each message, but that is on EACH MESSAGE!! (It goes back to minimal headers on the next message.)

And soon, please. I have zero confidence that Yahoo!’s SPAM button does anything but send
the message to a tech. Even then, lately, more obvious messages have been getting through, showing me a lack of improvement of spam filters.

April 28th, 2008 at 7:35 pm

The New Classic is a function/features downgrade. Among other things, it removes the controls over how readable text emails are. That’s critical when my mail becomes hard to read ! I have happily used Classic for 10 years. Suddenly, it goes bad,hard to read, controls gone. Can’t use it.

For now, I’m driven to the New version. Text display options are still there. Worst case, I go over to my GMail account.

April 28th, 2008 at 9:47 pm

I submitted some screenshots to the technical support team, but wanted you to know I keep getting old news on my news tabs. Not every time, mind you…but even on a new computer-BRAND NEW hard drive-I get (for example) The Bai Ling arrested for shoplifting news item under the entertainment tab. Plus I had a new tab for a week or so-the local tab- and then it disappeared! Why?! It was great! How do I get it back!?

Ok thanks. :-)

April 29th, 2008 at 3:40 am

This Is a Good Job

April 29th, 2008 at 6:15 am

In Y!Classic Mail it used to be easy to export your contacts in .csv format. Now it is impossible and one is only given an IMPORT option.
What’s up with that?

April 29th, 2008 at 7:05 am

Ryan or somebody,

could you atleast give us your intentions, so we know how to proceed. Is these how the mail is going to be or are you working on addressing these problems? Seems to me you people put the cart before the horse and made poor planning before you started metaling with classic. I have written here and emailed tech staff and such with no results. I prefer to stay with yahoo, as I have only had one issue in the past that was resolved in a timely manner. I do have comfidence in yahoo, just need to know whether to look for better mail server to suit my needs or are they going to make changes to classic to be more inline to the way it was.

Thanks, Mark

April 29th, 2008 at 9:25 am

Just wondering when Yahoo Calender and Notepad will be upgraded to Beta? Sometimes it gets kinda bulky to go back and forth between the new mail and an old calender. Thanks. :-)

April 29th, 2008 at 11:10 pm

Hello,
I dont do understand, why the team is concentrating on such old standarts!

The YClassic is used be people who doesnt care about the future!

I would prefer, to improve the Yahoo client in some ways. I really need the note, rule, etc.. function!
And I hate it to see those things not being included in the new AJAX interface!

Its like having done half a work!

April 30th, 2008 at 7:04 am

Hello,
I noticed while I was chatting with a friend online that some really cool phrases came up while he was typing. Instead of it saying “Mike is typing” it said “Hold your breath, Mike is typing something utterly intelligent” How do I get mine to do that. I thought that was very cool.
Thank you!

April 30th, 2008 at 6:59 pm

I too would like to voice my dissatisfaction with the new updated version of Yahoo Classic. I can’t believe anyone thinks the new look of the full headers is better than the old version. I’m amazed that you can not longer forward an email with full headers. I have talked to six or seven people at Yahoo Customer Care and not one of them could understand my complaint. How much simpler can you make the statement of I can’t forward an email with full headers. I forwarded an email to abuse@yahoo.com and received the response your submission can not be processed without full headers. I replied I can’t do that so they replied with detailed instructions on how to do this. I replied showing that I can’t send full headers but have yet to receive a response.

April 30th, 2008 at 8:06 pm

I have always thought the ability to pick a font style and a text size AND SAVE IT as your default would be awesome instead of having to select each everytime you compose.

May 1st, 2008 at 7:58 am

Where do I start? First, I can’t even access New Mail anymore. I’m directed to a page that says my browser is not supported and that I should upgrade to…and the list includes Firefox 2.o.o.1. I’m on Firefox 2.0.0.14! (on Mac Panther) I was told that I should either try disabling my browser add-ons or try a different browser. No way is that an acceptable option.

In Classic Mail, my folder list is not straight–not a crisis, but annoying.

Some of you mention fonts–I don’t seem to have any font options anywhere, for either viewing or composing.

I’ve marked viewing to “large” but it is still quite small, usually, although on occasion the size gets much larger and I have to reset it.

I have several accounts, and Google lets me redirect other accounts to one address. Why doesn’t Yahoo provide the same service? It’s very inconvenient to have to sign in and out to check mail.

Finally, I know the bells and whistles aren’t necessary for great function. Still, customization is an excellent feature that I enjoy in Google. Why not encourage people to develop Stylish or Greasemonkey scripts to address some problems? There are a few out there, but they don’t work that well.

Yahoo is falling behind, and that’s a shame because I’ve liked using it for a very long time. I’d love to see it get moving again!

May 1st, 2008 at 1:49 pm

hey my friends have a new i-con flag and a new dot in their yahoo email. they flag the messages without opening. also their subject come on the top and attachment can be clciked from the top. while mine dont do all that. so how can i can get that new . and new flag icon and click attacment from the top without having to go down to click.?
i hve tried different setting but no luck. thx

May 1st, 2008 at 1:54 pm

I use yahoo classic and so as my Friends BUT my friends have a new i-con flag and a new dot in their yahoo yahoo classic inbos next to name and subject. they can flag the messages without opening. also their subject come on the top and attachment can be clciked from the top. while mine dont do all that. so how can i can get that new . and new flag icon and click attacment from the top without having to go down to click.?
i hve tried different setting but no luck.
Ryan can you reply me on my email. thx

May 1st, 2008 at 7:24 pm

Ryan: I’ve been using the beta version with my Yahoo Small Business e-mail for several months and have been happy with it. Yesterday, however, I was switched back to classic, and I can’t figure out how to get back to beta (or New, or whatever it’s called!) I’m not talking about my free Yahoo acct, but my Small Business acct.

Thanks for your help!

May 1st, 2008 at 7:54 pm

Never mind…just figured it out!

May 3rd, 2008 at 3:31 pm

I figured out how to forward email with full headers. I haven’t found a way to do this in the updated version of Yahoo Classic so the first step is:
● Click on the All-New link to switch to the new Yahoo Mail.
● Open the email in question and look to the right.
● Click on Standard headers to display the header options.
● Click on Full headers. A new box will pop up containing the full headers.
● Highlight all the header information and then right-click to display the options box. Click on Copy.
● Click on the Ok button to close the header box.
Click on the Foward button to create the forwarded email.
● Paste the copied headers on the first line under the Fowarded Message Header line.

I guess Yahoo thought the old way of opening an email, clicking on the Full Header link, and then clicking on the Foward button was too simple.

May 3rd, 2008 at 9:20 pm

Can someone direct me to “The Comprehensive Yahoo! Guide to HTML Emails - How to Ensure Correct Rendering when Sending HTML Emails to Yahoo! Users”?
Thanks.

May 4th, 2008 at 3:38 am

Hi Ryan,
I have untill recently been using the Classic mail and the new version and all has been well.
Recently on one of my PCs I decided to do some housekeeping and using internet explorer I deleted cookies temp internet files and history.After doing this I could no longer see my draft emails in Classic mail, attachments are visible but the text area is blank.The 18th item on the toolbar in compose or draft that says “stationery” has it’s icon missing.
In draft at the very bottom of the page it permanently reports “downloading picture HTTP://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/pim/el/tb_station_2.gif”
I took a chance to prove if deleting cookies etc under internet explorer had caused my problems and repeated my actions on my laptop PC and sure enough I have the same prolems now on that PC.
I have completely removed the whole BTYahoo installation and re-installed all to no avail.
Any suggestions, all help wil be gratefuly received

Peter.

May 4th, 2008 at 9:52 pm

My question is…since I have Yahoo Mail Premium that is ad free why should I be forced to view ads in My Yahoo??????

May 5th, 2008 at 3:23 am

nnnn

May 5th, 2008 at 10:29 am

Ryan, I still miss the old link that created Yahoo Mail as the default Windows e-mail application. I still help a LOT of folks who have computers that barely handle what’s installed, and don’t do well with the full Messenger package. Not that a lot of them would even use it or know how to use it. So just making the e-mail default would save so much time and effort, it’s just silly to not make that available any more.

I’m a VERY long time Yahoo mail user, and even now pay for the more robust mail service. Can’t Yahoo even make it easier for those who pay????

May 5th, 2008 at 12:58 pm

I’m also having a problem with the updated Yahoo Mail Classic whereby it no longer handles any type of external “compose” links correctly. That includes regular “MailTo” links and the Get Mail commands in either IE or Firefox.

As others have reported, it takes me to the Yahoo Mail “home” screen instead of calling up a Compose window.

I assume this probably means that Yahoo needs to update their ymmapi-related files so that it will correctly handle the new Yahoo Mail Classic server URL’s. For me, the server URL’s used to be something like us.f496.mail.yahoo.com; now it uses us.mc302.mail.yahoo.com.

I contacted Yahoo customer service via Live Chat, and the rep said they are aware of this problem and hope to address it soon. I hope so.

Also, I agree with Scott: It’s a real drag to have to install (and then uninstall) the whole Yahoo Messenger package just to make YM your default email client. Bring back the old ymmapi installer!

One final gripe: why hasn’t Yahoo Mail gotten on board the MAPI bandwagon? I have lots of clients who would love to switch over to Yahoo Mail from an old local email client, but the lack of MAPI support makes message & folder migration impractical. Even AOL WebMail supports MAPI, for god’s sake!

best,
JohnB

May 5th, 2008 at 2:23 pm

Oops! I said “MAPI” in my previous post, when of course I was referring to “IMAP”. Embarrassing…

(I used to work with a programming protocal called “MAPI” and I always make that mistake.)

;-)

JohnB

May 7th, 2008 at 5:29 am

Hello there!
i have a problem about my yahoo messenger i cant sign with my account but when i use my sisters account its automatically sign in. can u help me about this problem? everytime i sign in it always said that “there was a problem signing in into my yahoo messenger please try a little bit later. i already did that it doesnt work. what am i gonna do? my big problem is i dont have any copy of my messenger list…could you help me please about this trouble? im waiting for your reply. thank you!

May 7th, 2008 at 12:47 pm

I cannot even get to my email these days but get the Error Code 1 window. Have reported it numerous times, apologies provided by Yahoo with the commitment to send the problem to The Yahoo! Mail Engineering Team for further investigation (supposedly has been done twice in the last 10 days) but nothing has changed and I’ve not heard from anyone who can resolve the problem which still perists.

It shows I now have 68 emails in my Inbox that I can’t get to.

Help?????

Thanks,
Sharron

May 8th, 2008 at 10:12 am

Forwarded mail containing images turns out to be unreadable to recipient.

May 8th, 2008 at 12:07 pm

I’m having problems navigating within the inbox - I’m running Safari 3.1.1 and the ‘next’ and ‘previous’ functions only work correctly part of the time - part of the time ‘next’ takes me back to the previous message instead of forwards.

May 8th, 2008 at 10:01 pm

Since the “upgrade” Firefox’s WebMail Notifier will no longer check Classic for new mail. Thanks a lot for screwing up the only email service I really liked! I also agree with most of the negative comments in these posts so far.

May 9th, 2008 at 4:53 am

Steve, try using this extension instead: Yahoo! Mail Notifier. For me, it still works just fine with the updated Yahoo Mail Classic.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1264

Also, it’s compatible with the latest FF3 beta’s.

Hope this helps,
JohnB

May 9th, 2008 at 5:22 am

send a link for sending error report remove

May 9th, 2008 at 6:49 am

I am so fed up with Yahoo! Mail Classic that I am about to stop using it. I thought about upgrading to Mail Plus but couldn’t even get customer service to understand my complaint.

I’ve relied on being able to forward email as an attachment. The Forward button had a drop down menu to choose between forwarding as inline text and attachment. That disappeared all of a sudden sometime in mid March on my regular account and contrary to the Help page, it was not possible (on my Mac, anyway) to make forwarding as an attachment work by Ctrl or Option clicking the Forward button.

So I created a new account and found that the new one still had the drop down Forward button and was a happy camper again… until last night. Now suddenly the drop down menu is gone and I can’t forward mail as inline text any more. I tried to create a new account but this one had the menuless Forward button from the start… so I gave up.

When this happened to my first account I tried asking Customer Service but they gave me the “if you can’t view an attchment, it could be one of the following problems:” canned reply. When I tried to explain my problem in more detail, they wrote back saying that their records indicated that they had already answered my question in their previous email.

Way to win friends I mean customers and influence people, Yahoo!

May 9th, 2008 at 7:48 am

i am can not enter to yahoo mail . what is wrong
or problem

May 10th, 2008 at 6:26 pm

Hi Ryan–I still like Yahoo and am sorry to see so many problems with the new Mail Classic. Wish I could have the old version back until you fix the bugs. None of my friends on Yahoo have been switched yet, and they can’t understand why my emails are so wierd. Yes, 14 point fonts, both outgoing and incoming, some of the time. Huge spaces between paragraphs, unless I make my emails all one big paragraph. Used to be able to get to a new message from Preview Mail with one click. That doesn’t work anymore so it takes 3.
Check Email on left side and upper right Mail no longer show the # of new messages. Yesterday, my message list showed a time of arrival but no date. Can’t preview attachments any more. Auto-fill in doesn’t work well anymore. No pop-up name and often the cursor scoots down to a lower line while I am writing a name. That’s enough for now.
Please give me back the old version. I hate to be an unpaid quality control staffer. Oh, btw, I do love the auto-save on drafts. Customer Service has been no help at all. Four iterations so far, all I get are “form” emails with pages of instructions for me to check my browser, etc. It’s BUGs in the new system, not my browser (IE6, not changed, Windows ME stll working).
Thanks for reading, I hope.
Pat

May 13th, 2008 at 4:01 am

I am not able to view the content of the mail on my yahoo acct it only displays teh subject line please suggest some solution.

May 13th, 2008 at 6:55 am

I have been using Y!M since the day it was first introduced to the public. And for almost just as long there has been something bugging me - the handling of attachments in non-IE browsers. (tested on NS 3.x, 4.x; Moz 0.9 thru 1.7, FF up to 3b5). The “View” simply does not work. (caveat: html preview of Word documents works great - but that’s a different function). Clicking on “View” link takes you to the same “no virus found - Download attachment” screen. So when a friend sends you 50 pictures from his daughters birthday party that you only going to view once - you’re still stuck with {”view” -> wait 3-5 seconds -> “download attachment” -> wait 3-5 seconds -> open in some image viewer -> “back to message” -> wait 3-5 seconds} -> Repeat 50 times. or just forward the message to another mail account and view it there. it does work as expected in the “new” mail, but i’m sorry to say the new AJAX libraries Yahoo is implementing are - and i have difficulty finding the right words to describe it - terrible. (rendered Yahoo TV completely unusable. Made the home (www.yahoo.com) page crawl) I realize that some people are loving the “New” style, and i’m sure Yahoo developers are very proud of their product and they deserve huge credit for the amount of work that went into it. it’s really too bad that the final result is as clunky as a rusted out Yugo. While obviously more features require longer load times, beauty demands sacrifice, yadda-yadda-yadda - bottom line is: if a page consistently requires a minimum of 15 seconds to load (and some times as long as 90 seconds) on a 30 Mbps connection - i’m not going to click it again. pretty is good. functional is better.
but i digress. the other oddity in classic mail on non-IE browsers is this. when viewing a message with attached images frequently the thumbnails do not show up, you get a “broken image” icon instead. i can’t figure out any consistencies in this behavior - happens with all sorts of mailers, domains or forwarders - regardless of the sender. also, seemingly similar issue happens when receiving an html message sent from a Mac that has images embedded in it - images show broken. however if you do a “view image” from the right-click menu - the image does show up and if you click back to the original message - the image is now visible there too. Please feel free to contact me via email if there’s any further information i can provide.

PS. my Feature wishlist: outgoing message codepage setting.

May 13th, 2008 at 7:00 am

I will like to keep my yahoo acc for free ok thanks

May 13th, 2008 at 8:32 pm

Heip–please give me bsck my OLD classic email. My folders no longer appear on the left side. They were named for bills and the paydate and I could always see that. What no more autocomplete for addresses? I hate this!!!

May 13th, 2008 at 9:34 pm

Why am I unable to delete in the new and old version?
All the top line items like delete, move, view etc
don’t work.
I am able to open and email but nothing else works.
Is there a virus on Yahoo?
No other pages on my browser have this problem…only Yahoo Mail.

HELP

May 14th, 2008 at 11:16 pm

online life insurance…

pang fox:stroker antic highnesses misjudged …

May 15th, 2008 at 2:54 am

I agree with Anders, I also work for a company the produces newsletters and the paragraph tags do not display correctly (all bunched up), at least in IE7/Win (FF/Win works fine).

I have also seen differences between how an email is rendered in the preview compared to ‘Full Message View’.

May 15th, 2008 at 8:36 am

I agree with Anders and Lee, the P tags are bunched up!! Come on Yahoo!, you messed up big time on this! Our customers think we’re idiots (well hopefully not) Please fix this bug before all others, thanks :-)

May 16th, 2008 at 8:24 pm

please return the yahooclassic without the twist!

May 18th, 2008 at 8:29 pm

I’m with Anders, Lee and Python! I can’t STAND how there are no longer spaces between paragraph markers! Help help help! Is there any way to adjust the settings to fix this?

May 19th, 2008 at 11:10 am

Hey Tripp,

How, in the New Yahoo Mail, is having to DOUBLE-CLICK to open an email an advance? I thought the web was about single-clicking on things?

FYI both Gmail and Hotmail open emails with ONE click.

Once they fix that blunder, I’ll move over.

L.L.

May 19th, 2008 at 11:12 am

Pretty obvious,

We’re staying with Classic because we like it. So they’re spending resources better spent elsewhere mucking with it to the point it is no longer what we used to like, and can no longer stand it. Then, we’ll all switch over to the new version. And they’ll have gotten their way.

L.L.

May 19th, 2008 at 11:25 am

You can still set up IE7 so that clicking on an email hyperlink will open up a new Yahoo Classic email window. WITHOUT having to install Yahoo Messenger.

It’s done the same was as before. With a ymmapi.dll and a .reg file to update the registry.

Yahoo Help doesn’t tell you about that, do they? In fact, they removed that answer and the links to the files. Now they glibly tell you tell install that godawfull Yahoo Messenger. RIGHT! They even coerced About.com to do the same.

Go here…

http://www.technologyquestions.com/technology/windows-xp/215824-how-do-you-make-yahoo-email-default-emailer.html

…and read dougdude’s answer. The DLL file is from a clean site. The registry merge doesn’t do anything bad to your computer. It just WORKS.

Which is NOT what Yahoo seems to want.

L.L.

I’ll check back here later to see if this post is deleted. :-)

May 20th, 2008 at 7:41 am

Is there a place that we can go to to check on the status of some of the glitches that appeared when the Classic upgrade happened?

My major irritants are 1) the ones that affect the posting to Yahoogroups, 2) the one that doesn’t open up a compose mail window when clicking on a link- instead it just takes you to your mail page 3) the ability to actually see the addresses in the “TO” field when sending to a “catagory” that has too many people in it.

** This could be fixed by upping the number of people allowed to be included in one email **

Thanks for all of your hard work!!
Kathy

May 20th, 2008 at 8:39 am

I have been told that you guys are the ones to ask… apparently you guys know it all!!!! I hope I;m not going to be the one to stump you… I NEED TO KNOW HOW TO DISABLE THE AUTOCOMPLETE FEATURE FOR THE SUBJECT LINE WHEN COMPOSING AN EMAIL WITH YAHOO!!!!!!!!!! I was recently caught responding to an email that I promised not to respond to. We have different logins, etc, but use the same computer and when this person typed re:… everything that used re: popped up in a drop down box… also we use mozilla…

thanks for all you do here,
james

May 20th, 2008 at 8:58 am

I have Yahoo! Mail Classic, which has changed recently. How do I turn off those annoying “balloons” that pop up when ever I roll my curser over an item in the “From” column? The balloon often covers the item when I’m trying to highlight for copying.

May 20th, 2008 at 3:56 pm

>>You can still set up IE7 so that clicking on an email hyperlink will open up a new Yahoo Classic email window. WITHOUT having to install Yahoo Messenger.

***************************************

Thanks for the info, LL. Sure beats going thru the entire Yahoo Messenger installation just to make Yahoo Mail your default email client!

However, that being said, ymmapi.dll STILL doesn’t work correctly with the updated version of Yahoo Mail Classic. Clicking on MailTo links simply brings you to the YM start page, not to a composition window.

It’s been almost three weeks since this problem became apparent. I myself posted here about it almost 2 weeks ago. When the hell is Yahoo gonna fix it?

To Ryan K (the guy who runs this blog): how about at least giving us a status report?

best,
JohnB

May 22nd, 2008 at 6:34 pm

ilove my old version of yahoo classic mail.that is the only web site i use for e mails. it has been doing real well so far. i am just learning to use a computer. i like yahoo.com classic mail
the old version. thanks, please let me keep it .
mary.t.

May 23rd, 2008 at 7:00 am

Sending thanks for being part of these Yahoo!It’s amazing so many things to see…very covenient…this is better than a library,cinema,radio…I say this because I’m living in these chinese world that i can’t write and read their language…everythings written in chinese…it’s hard..
Being part of Yahoo helps me a lot…more power and really i wanna thank you…

May 25th, 2008 at 2:46 pm

I still use Yahoo Classic and it has just been “upgraded” to the “new” classic, and I don’t like it. Specifically, I DO NOT want to see ANY news stories on that first page when I log in. Why must you force news headlines upon us if we don’t want to see them? It’s not like they’re paid advertisements. What happened to the option to hide the news? Why did you disable this? I avoid the news as much as possible and I don’t want it slapping me in the face when I use my own email. Please, give us back the ability to hide the news in Yahoo Mail Classic. Can I “downgrade” to the previous version?

May 26th, 2008 at 11:36 am

Like many others who have posted here, I’m still experiencing the problem with the updated Yahoo Mail Classic’s “Compose” functions. Clicking on a MailTo link or choosing “New Message” in either Firefox or IE takes you to the Yahoo Mail Welcome page, not a new Compose window.

Partly out of principle, and partly out of frustration with Yahoo for not fixing it, I decided to take a closer look and see if I could come up with some type of workaround. I was partially successful.

If you change a specific registry key, it will at least take you to a Compose window when you choose “New Message” in your Web browser.

Change this key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Yahoo\MailTo\MailToUrl

To the following value: http://us.mc302.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?

A couple caveats:

1) This workaround is obviously for Windows users only.

2) Don’t screw around with your registry unless you’re comfortable doing so.

3) Of course, your server URL may be different, depending on where you live or whatever.

Unfortunately, MailTo links still won’t work correctly - it will just bring up a blank Compose window without properly passing any of the necessary values to Yahoo Mail (To:, Subject, cc:, bcc:, body, etc).

Until Yahoo gets around to updating ymmapi.dll amd ymmapi.exe so that they work correctly with the updated Classic, this is the best I can come up with.

JohnB

May 26th, 2008 at 6:58 pm

Like many others who have posted here, I’m still experiencing the problem with the updated Yahoo Mail Classic’s “Compose” functions. Clicking on a MailTo link or choosing “New Message” in either Firefox or IE takes you to the Yahoo Mail Welcome page, not a new Compose window.

Partly out of principle, and partly out of frustration with Yahoo for not fixing it, I decided to take a closer look and see if I could come up with some type of workaround. I was partially successful.

If you change a specific registry key, it will at least take you to a Compose window when you choose “New Message” in your Web browser.

Change this key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Yahoo\MailTo\MailToUrl

To the following value: http://us.mc302.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?

A couple caveats:

1) This workaround is obviously for Windows users only.

2) Don’t screw around with your registry unless you’re comfortable doing so.

3) Of course, your server URL may be different, depending on where you live or whatever.

Unfortunately, MailTo links still won’t work correctly - it will just bring up a blank Compose window without properly passing any of the necessary values to Yahoo Mail (To:, Subject, cc:, bcc:, body, etc).

Until Yahoo gets around to updating ymmapi.dll amd ymmapi.exe so that they work correctly with the updated Classic, this is the best I can come up with.

JohnB

May 27th, 2008 at 12:28 am

It has been over a month since the new yahoo classic update has been done. So far I have yet to see the new update on my yahoo account.

I’ve seen it in other people’s but not on mine. Is there something I need to do to get it?

May 27th, 2008 at 10:33 am

I’ve been a Yahoo Mail Classic user for years, and was satisfied, until now. Some of my incoming mail is now near illegible because of changes made to how they’re displayed.

Options to change font size of mail has now dissapeared entirely from my mail options section

This is worsened by the fact I use a high resolution screen. To combat this, I switched to the new version. Readability is just as bad.

May 27th, 2008 at 10:51 am

>>”Is there something I need to do to get it?<<

Supposedly, the Yahoo Mail Classic update is being rolled out to users gradually - and seemingly with no rhyme or reason as to who gets it and when.

Be careful what you wish for, Kajin! ;-)

May 29th, 2008 at 1:58 am

I hate the Classic update and would like to know why (apparently because I use Safari) the autocomplete for addresses doesn’t work anymore.

May 30th, 2008 at 6:54 am

Count me among those who HATE the changes to Classic. Perhaps Y! doesn’t understand that the reason most of us use Classic is that we like it the way it is. If we wanted something different we’d have upgraded to the new mail. I fail to see how removing certain features (drop-down forward as attachment) and monkeying around with others (signature) is supposed to improve things. THE NEW CHANGES SUCK. At the very least, you should INFORM US FIRST and give us a chance to give you feedback BEFORE you make changes. This high-handedness makes me extremely angry. I am a paid customer, and I expect NOT to have to change the way I do things just because your development team can’t leave well enough alone. While you guys are screwing around with stuff, why not give us the option to go back to the way things were? A “Classic Classic” if you will.

May 30th, 2008 at 8:04 am

my second comment. anybody from Yahoo reading this?
my “Twisted Classic” kicked in today. first impression - looks pretty good. finally got unicode to work right (for the most part), line wraps fixed, page overall looks cleaner. nice.
second impression (after using it for a couple of hours and reading release notes) - WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE???
word/excel preview - gone. image view (not that it worked well to begin with) - gone. icon next to senders who are in my address book - gone. thumbp2.mail.vip.ac4.yahoo.com (server responsible for showing thumbnails of attached images) spits out 403:Forbidden errors half the time. parsing of the mail_blue_all.css spits out 118(!) error messages. (Seriously, anyone knows how to use a debugger???). every spam message that makes it past the spam filter now needs to be deleted twice - first tag it as spam to delete it to the spam folder, and then delete it from there - yeah, very “streamlined” process, kudos.
but the codepage handling - that “twist” takes the cake. just a spectacular slap in the face of every user who uses non-latin alphabet to send messages. i’m not getting into specifics here since you’re not going to do anything about it anyway, so why waste more time. (but if Y! is actually serious about getting this miserable blunder fixed - contact me.)
overall impression from the “improvements” that i got is that they came as a result of a meeting that started like this: “People seem to be reluctant to switch to the All-New Y!Mail. We can’t risk just killing off the Classic and loosing all those eyeballs for our advertisement revenue. So, how can we make Classic experience miserable enough for people to want to upgrade, but not horrid enough for them to leave altogether?” am i wrong? please prove me wrong… please…

May 30th, 2008 at 8:22 am

oh, forgot to mention. the person that made the decision to remove “forward as an attachment” should not be allowed to work in any industry that makes use of a computer. ever. there needs to be some kind of “functioning braincell count” requirement.
fix the button. yesterday. don’t care about excuses or explanations. this is a major dealbreaker.

May 30th, 2008 at 10:41 am

Had to add my 2 cents. What were they thinking? Those who stay with yahoo classic like it just the way it was. I want my old yahoo classic back. Pllllllllease.

May 30th, 2008 at 6:49 pm

I personally don’t like the updated Yahoo Classic. It was a lot better and easier for me just the way it was and I thought that was the whole point in making the new Yahoo Mail for people that actually wanted the change. If we really wanted them, then we would be using the new mail instead of sticking with the classic. Please change it back because it’s really annoying.

May 31st, 2008 at 12:39 am

I think that the new version of Classic Mail has many bugs.
The encoding is not like the old version because u cant encode the characters in the inbox window but u can only change the encoding of the body of the message from the mail itself not from the browser.
please solve this problem
eaither by returning the encoding to be changed from the browser OR make it like the new Yahoo Mail (more actions –> set encoding) because it works there.
nbut we still want to use the classic mail SO PLEASE SOLVE THIS PROBLEM

May 31st, 2008 at 5:26 am

Hi Ryan,
I’m a Yahoo Mail Plus subscriber:

1.) How can I get the Tech feed to show again? (I’m seeing News now in it’s place).

2.) How can I forward Full Headers as inline text?

3.) How can I get the Rolodex icons to show again?

Thanks

June 1st, 2008 at 3:56 am

After the renewal of Yahoo Classic,
I cannot change the wight of the field where I compose a message.
Before, I could select how many characters in a line will be displayed
(80-130, if I am not mistaken); now the “compose” field is too
narrow - about a half of my computer screen wight - and in the
“Options” I cannot change it! It looks very inconvenient. However, I was told in writing by Demi of “Yahoo! Customer Care” that, sorry, now it is what it is and the Customer Care service cannot help it. Too bad. Either there must be a way to get this option back or, sorry, but I’ll think about more convenient e-mail. Is it so technically difficult to restore such an option? I cannot believe it is. And if even so, please just get back the whole previous version of Yahoo Classic…

June 1st, 2008 at 6:20 am

Click, click, click, no results. If I wanted to click and get frustrated I’d play online slots. This morning, 4 clicks to open the inbox, sent back to the folder view the first 3 times. Then 3 more clicks to open up a message, back to the folder view the first 2 times. Improvement, NOT! The new changes are more than irritating. As many above have already stated, those of us who chose to stay with the ‘Classic’ did so because it worked well.

June 1st, 2008 at 10:02 am

> Unfortunately, the New Classic mail removes
> a feature I relied on heavily– the ability
> to filter the Inbox view by mail sent from
> my Contacts or from Unknown Senders.
> I get a lot of junkmail, despite SpamGuard,
> so it was handy to be able to select out
> all the mail from people I didn’t “know”.
>
> Comment by Thomas — April 25, 2008

I’m disgusted to find that this problem was
pointed out a month before I got switched
over and it hasn’t been corrected yet.
This is a major PITA.

June 1st, 2008 at 12:33 pm

If Yahoo doesn’t bring back the ability to remove News from within Mail I’m going to switch to gmail.

News in email is too distracting for me to put up with.

June 2nd, 2008 at 5:49 am

I also am having the same problem as a few other people, not being able to email a link or a bookmark since the new classic email was updated. I also have being trying to get help at Yahoo and for the past 2 days I have being turning my computer inside out trying every thing that was suggested and still it does not work…
PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO FIX THIS.
Gay Pompeii

June 2nd, 2008 at 7:14 am

My husband has the new classic mail revisions, but I don’t. I love the new stuff. Can you put in on mine now, or when?

June 2nd, 2008 at 5:51 pm

Please, all I want to do is switch back to the “old” classic version. Does anyone know how to do that? Has anyone figured out a way to do it? I’ve discovered I can’t do it by messing with the URL. And the version that Yahoo! uses doesn’t appear to be based on a registry key. So how do I switch back to the “old” classic? I know it’s still available. Why can’t I choose to use it?

June 4th, 2008 at 10:49 am

I am sorry to say that the new Classic gives me problems. I have been sending and receiving emails in one of the scripts in Indian languages (Tamil) that uses “user-defined” charset. In the “old” classic
yahoo mail, I can select “user-defined” charset in my firefox browser to display email text in indic language script.
Now with the newer classic (forced on us without choice), I cannot get email messages to display in
user-defined encoding/charset anymore. I get a popup message that I need to use unicode/utf-8 and the email message gets converted to some garbled up non-readable text. Can I have my “old” classic yahoo mail?

June 5th, 2008 at 8:39 am

I have to say, right now the only pressing dislikes for the new Classic mail (though they are VERY troubling to me) are both ragarding the “compose” page. I do not like this automatic inline inclusion of my signature, not one bit - I want my auto-attach/uncheck-box-to-not-attach format back! And… well, the automatically-open “Cc:” field is irritating. Perhaps I am just spoiled by other, far, far smaller web communities (e.g. Kingdom of Loathing) whose developers/admin often resolve concerns such as these with the addition of a toggleable account option… but I can’t imagine that the “old” behavior for Cc field and signature appending is irretrievably gone from Y! mail.
Seriously. Both these things throw me off and have, in mere hours, begun to sour me on sending mail at all. I suspect I will run across more changes which similarly bother me, but for now I can only beg the developers: please do not let “upgrading” of these (+more?) features and their workings constitute a replacement of the old functionality - change can be nice, but flexibility and toggleable options are usually appreciated (and certainly would be for these issues, as well as those posted by others regarding inbox known-sender ID’ing, etc.)!

Here’s hoping,
and thanks for your time,
Michael

June 5th, 2008 at 12:24 pm

I have never clicked to change my old yahoo mail for updating, but as now when trying to send a fwd with a pic on it: CAN’T will not do it period…. what in the dickens took place here??

June 6th, 2008 at 2:29 pm

Here’s a thought: Just leave stuff alone! Can ya do that? Huh?

June 7th, 2008 at 12:21 pm

I have been a Yahoo mail user for over 10 years. As of today, I give up on it. I will only keep it to collect all of the spam that I am getting now. Up to last week, when I marked something as spam it went to trash and also blocked the senders’ addresses. Now it doesn’t block them, so I keep getting the same garbage that I have been trying to avoid for the past year. (YES I have all my filters set).
**Isn’t there some way Yahoo can set up email, so we can get mail based on who is in our Contact list?
I also keep getting notifications that I have mail, when I go to check it, there is either nothing there or there is less than mail notification say there is. I have been having this problem since Dec 2007.
I have contacted customer care several times to no avail.
Both of these problems over the past year are pushing me away from Yahoo mail.

June 7th, 2008 at 12:36 pm

What happend to the spell check button on the compose E-mail page ?

A friend of mine logged into his yahoo mail classic account on my machine and he has a spell check button but I do not.

Both accounts are set to “Compose messages as plain text”.

His acccount (with spell check) goes to this server address “http://us.f362.mail.yahoo.com/ym/compose?” and my account (without spell check) goes to this address “http://us.mc302.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?”

What is the difference between the two accounts ?

I have been asking yahoo help for an answer to this question for the past three weeks but have not received any valid responses yet.

Do you actually have people answering the yahoo help E-mails or do you just use ‘bots to scan for keywords ? The responses I have received to this question would indicate the later.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

June 7th, 2008 at 1:00 pm

Is there any way to get rid of the freakin’ popup (really, popups?!?!?!!) when I go to delete a “spam” message. I get that it permanently deletes rather than going to my trash, I don’t need to be beaten over the head with it every single time. Good LORD!

Used to, you’d get a popup and there’d be a box to click that said “do not show this message again” and you never had another popup. Can we get that back, ASAP!!!! Who in their right minds thought a popup (!!!!!) would be a good idea?

Also! Used to you could have it set so that if you marked a post as spam it was immediately deleted. NOW??? It goes to the “spam” folder and you have to go through the hassle of clicking over to that folder and deleting it (and getting that GD popup!!!) before it is gone.

Now, I’d just let yahoo delete it from the spam folder after a set amount of time, but danged if yahoo doesn’t keep sending mail to spam from recipients that are 1) in my address book and 2) I’ve already marked as NOT SPAM. So I have to go wade through the stupid folder to get the mail I want to receive. And of course, I’m getting more and more actual SPAM delivered to my inbox. It’s increasing exponentially since the “updates”.

Remind me again what we gained with these updates? I honestly can’t see anything useful. Flags? Bah, what a waste of space. The ability to see that something is “domain keys verified”? And this tells us what? Nothing. Because a lot of spam is domain keys verified. We now have to physically delete our signature if we don’t want it to show (unlike before when we just clicked a button).

I agree with pretty much everyone above me, “if it ain’t broke, don’t ‘fix’ it”.

June 9th, 2008 at 11:54 am

Spell check button ? Anyone ? Anyone ? Bueller ?

June 9th, 2008 at 12:06 pm

I could not agree more with the people who state that the changes to Classic sucks. A lot of good functionality that made it great is now gone. IMHO, yahoo is using this as ruse to incent their customers to switch from Classic to the New mail. I had tried the new mail decided against it months ago.

As a customer, I realize that mail service is free and I appreciate the free service. But, as a yahoo stock holder I am appalled to see why a company would spend money to make a good product worse.

The time has finally come, I am switching to gmail. Now there will be no more need to visit any of the yahoo pages.

Funcitonality that I miss:

1. Ability to adjust the width of the Reply window
2. Ability to choose to include the email thread as Text or Attachment.

June 10th, 2008 at 1:42 pm

Yahoo plus subscriber here. I finally got updated to the “NEW” Classic.

Bummer!

No more ability to “forward as attachment”!

No more ability to preview file attachments before downloading!

Why would Yahoo remove these features?? I really relied on them.

June 10th, 2008 at 2:41 pm

John Z. asked the following:

…His acccount (with spell check) goes to this server address “http://us.f362.mail.yahoo.com/ym/compose?” and my account (without spell check) goes to this address “http://us.mc302.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?” What is the difference between the two accounts ?

The difference is: you have the NEW Yahoo Mail Classic, and your friend still has the old one. Your account has been switched over, and his hasn’t yet. Welcome to the updated Classic!

best,
JohnB

June 10th, 2008 at 8:43 pm

No replies from “Ryan K.” to any of these questions since April 29, 2008.

It appears that he is no longer “closely monitoring comments on this post” !

Yahoo help only spits out FAQ responses to questions.

If anyone has any idea where I can really get an answer to my questions concerning problems with Yahoo mail classic let me know.

Thank you.

June 11th, 2008 at 5:47 am

Forward as an attachment issue. (Jim)
seems “Forward as an attachment” has become hidden after the update. (Thank you yahoo for not telling anyone, it’s not like your updated has any problems rendering any messages, so why would anybody need it? oh, wait! your own tech support asks for full headers if you contact them for any message-related issues). Anyway. to forward the message as an attachment you have to hold down Ctrl key on your keyboard while clicking Forward button. I’m not sure if this works on every browser, but it does work for me in Firefox.

June 12th, 2008 at 10:52 am

Well this could apply to many areas. Forwarding from a given webpage either a link or the whole page using send does not work is no longer supported under either classic or new mail. Oh you can do it very awkwardly be cutting and pasting ad nauseum. Will there ever be a fix to the mailto browser services whatever it takes to make it easy to send things to others as you once could, If not i need to move on to a service that does. My web work, research, play, networking hinges around the ability to do so. After many months trying to find a workaround fix and being in contact with tecnical support, I now cannot even send weblinks with the all new mail let alone classic which is oh so cumbersome and busy! heres the latest from tech support: Hello,

Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Mail.

I understand that you are trying to use Yahoo! Mail as your default mail
client.

Unfortunately, Microsoft has disabled the code that we use to support
this feature under any version of Windows with IE7 installed or Windows
Vista. I apologize for this inconvenience.

Please let me know if you have any further concerns or if we can be of
any other assistance.

Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Mail.

Regards,

and this goes for firefox and others:Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Mail.

I understand that you would like to know if the ‘Mail to’ links will
work in Firefox.

Unfortunately, Firefox will result in the same thing that Internet
Explorer does. It will take you to your inbox, but will no longer
autopopulate a new composition window with the email address.

I apologize for the inconvenience. Have a great weekend!

Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Mail.

Regards,

I would gladly send my complaints to microsoft now that it appears to be on their end. Let me know the right forum on that. If this is not fixed, I and many others will be encouraged to move elsewhere. Perhaps that is Microsofts intent? The apps to be able to enable such functionality have always been hard to find at yahoo, though.
Please let us know if there is truly a fix in the forseeable future, i would be bummed to leave yahoo after about 10 years i imagine. Since I was with prodigy that was purchased whenever that was

June 12th, 2008 at 10:54 am

Ryan:

I have had my yahoo email a long time, and now anytime I send an email out, I have to do the verification thing, and the emails I send out to my Yahoo Group, come in to my spam folder, my own email! What’s going on?

Thanks

June 12th, 2008 at 6:37 pm

Just recently my yahoo classic mail was updated. I enjoyed the older version so much better. Now if you want to forward an email it comes up as an attachment nad when entering the email address you cant bring up the address book window which is quite fustrating. On my personal computer i can only use classic mail but on the family computer i can use the beta one. And at the moment i am finding that the updated classic is in between these two. I have been enjoying yahoo mail until this delima. If i were you i would make some simple changes like the mailing system. But other than that the design looks more sleek.

Sophie

June 13th, 2008 at 11:21 pm

Don’t like the new Yahoo mail classic/
I’m a Plus member there was no notification, the bcc field can’t default to use, the fonts funky, the layout is ugly and more.
Maybe some good features are there but overall a loser.
Bad move all around!
May have to back to Microsoft or google.
I thought I had a glitch in my computer.
What are you guys thinking?
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it!
You’ll lose traffic that’s for sure!
Mark

June 14th, 2008 at 9:08 am

Downloading and attaching password protected ZIP files in the beta-classic mail does not work.

June 14th, 2008 at 11:49 am

My default font sizes are shown too big in my new classic mail. The fonts look huge in the subject of the all the messages in the
inbox listing. I tried everything imaginable to fix this and couldn’t.

Of course Yahoo wrote back that it is the fault of IE7 when it obviously was the upgrade that screwed everything up. Why couldn’t yahoo just leave well enough alone :(

June 15th, 2008 at 7:57 am

I cannot get the tool bar back on the new classic mail
The one that you could change font sizes, insert,bold type, emotions etc.
I have email and send snap shots of what my new email page looks like,to Yahoo.
Right now my fonts are so small I can barely read them,
I do not understand why all the changes, if it wasn’t broke why fix it?

Anyone have an idea how to get the buttons back on the new classic?

June 15th, 2008 at 10:11 am

Downloading and attaching password protected ZIP files in the beta-classic mail does not work.

Yahoo has been aware of this issue since at least June 6, 2008.

Why can’t they give the user the option of downloading files, even if the virus scan did not work?

June 16th, 2008 at 4:48 am

I have to agree with most of the recent comments here… it wasn’t broke, it didn’t need to be “fixed”, but it sure is broke now.

Composing, retrieving, spam filtering are all screwed up. What a mess.

June 17th, 2008 at 4:16 am

Please restore the original “Drafts” functionality, whre it DOESN’T delete the message from the Drafts folder after you send it. Alternatively, please add the feature taht the “All New Yahoo Mail” has, where you can hold down “Shift” when clicking “Send” to retain the message in your Drafts folder.

June 17th, 2008 at 10:04 am

I liked the old system best I could keep my drafts and relabel them to other addresses later( the sent file doesn’t work so good .how can I keep draft I am sending to one person for sending with new label to some one else?????

Also can flags be removed???

June 18th, 2008 at 3:34 am

Ive gone ahead and swithed to gmail since it seems that yahoo has no regard for its patrons.

A response to our concerns would be in order but it seems you dont care so bye bye.

June 20th, 2008 at 7:52 am

June 20, 2008

I HAVE A PAID ACCOUNT.

I AM GETTING SICK AND TIRED OF YAHOO MAIL.

FIRST, FOR OVER TWO WEEK (SINCE JUNE 6, 2008), YAHOO HAS BEEN SPECIFICALLY AWARE OF A PROBLEM DOWNLOADING AND OPENING PASSWORD PROTECTED ZIP FILES. IT IS NOT FIXED.

SECOND, AT RANDOM WHEN I SEARCH FOR A NAME IN MY MAIL I GET THE FOLLOWING:

Search Results
Sorry. Your search failed.
We are currently working on a fix for this problem; please try again later.

STILL NOT FIXED.

GMAIL IS LOOKING BETTER AND BETTER.

June 21st, 2008 at 9:46 pm

why did yahoo take the in line message off the forward?Now when you forward e mail you can not delete the things off that you do not want to send like all the other e mail addresses that is on it.So now when I e mail any thing it is so much longer and has a lot of other e mail addresses on it.

June 25th, 2008 at 10:28 am

Sorry. Your search failed.
We are currently working on a fix for this problem; please try again later.

It would really be nice to get this fixed. It has been broken for some time now. FAR more important than new features.

Not that it matters, but I too have a paid account. The new version is way too slow - go Classic!

June 26th, 2008 at 2:52 pm

Hello Ryan,

I understand the need for Yahoo to integrate its products into a single interface but removing existing features to force users to the New interface shows your lack of concern and respect for your users.

When moving software forward the first rule is to preserve existing functionality. The second rule is to present the new features so the user can decide through option switches whether to select the features to not.

While Yahoo has it own needs for future versions, I like to suggest asking your users what they need and includ some of these options in the next release.

I know I’d like to see the actual FROM address instead of some friendly name. Make it an option and let your users decide what is displayed.

How about letting me maintain a dynamic spam list in my account so known spam can be directed into the TRASH folder.

And then verify incoming mail against my contacts list. Good mail go in the INBOX, spam goes in the TRASH and the questionable items ( not in either group ) goes in a QUESTIONBOX.

I’ve liked Yahoo e-mail in the past but it is hard to move forward when that means a loss in features and functions.

tdr

I noticed you are not replying to the comments in the Blog. I guess the Blog is just the medicine to help the New interface go down.

June 29th, 2008 at 12:50 pm

June 29, 2008

Update: my June 20, 2008 is still not fixed. Now I am THREE weeks and counting.

Specifically, I still cannot download password protected ZIP files in the “improved’ classic.

A new trick Re search: it seems (unconfirmed) that the mail search is case sensitive, i.e. the mail search fails because I did/did not capitalize the word.

Second: did the ’switch to new mail’ disappear?

Why doesn’t Yahoo respond to my concerns?

Max

June 29th, 2008 at 1:55 pm

Why the he11 did you remove existing functionality when you “upgraded” the Yahoo classic mail ???????
1. Spell check button on e-mail compose page.
2. “Check All” button on the bottom of the inbox page.

July 6th, 2008 at 1:40 pm

June 29, 2008

Update: my June 20, 2008 is still not fixed. Now I am FOUR weeks and counting.

Mr. Knight

Why can I download a password protected ZIP file in your ‘new mail’ but cannot download the same file in Classic?

Why don’t you respond to this serious defect in classic?

July 6th, 2008 at 10:36 pm

on new yahoo mcxx mail something weird!
Yes, i want to no when my SENT email HAS BEEN READ. Someone / something has read it!!

July 9th, 2008 at 6:04 pm

Please let us keep our classic mail features and homepage - nothing seems to work well now including taking 2 minutes or so for my new homepage just to boot up completely - I’m considering finding another company to use for my homepage and emails

July 16th, 2008 at 4:25 am

Man, what happened to the mail.
The Fonts are huge! I can’t use this mail like this!

July 17th, 2008 at 10:14 am

Why when I put something in the draft folder and then I send it out will it be erased from my draft folder? If I want to send out several notes but with different names on it I cannot do it anymore. Whereas I could do it before. The draft folder is almost useless now.

August 11th, 2008 at 1:33 pm

How do you turn “OFF” the auto save to draft?
I do not want my emails to save as a draft unless I click the draft button.
A great way for a hacker to obatin information.
Also what is the deal with MS running CTFMON.
This is a key logger and and also another great way to hack someone.
I know how to turn it off but then it seems to always show up.

October 2nd, 2008 at 5:42 pm

Explain to me why about once a wk, my contact file drops a contact. At this time, I have to completely re-enter the contact information.