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 pr