Not too long ago, we celebrated the birthday of Yahoo! Mail. I still can’t believe that it’s already been 10 years. And as you read through that previous post, you’ll notice as time has passed, we’ve been improving and updating the Classic version of Yahoo! Mail in order to give you the best experience and most popular Web-mail in the world.
More changes on the way…
With the recent focus on all of the great features of the all-new Yahoo! Mail, quite a number of you have been asking “what’s the future of Yahoo! Mail Classic?”, and asking whether or not you’ll be forced to switch to the new version. Let me first say that we have no intention of retiring Yahoo! Mail Classic, and you will always have the choice of which version you want to use.
That being said, the Classic team has been working tirelessly to tune the technology behind Yahoo! Mail Classic as well as working on new features that will go a long way to – if I can use the term – ‘improve on a Classic’.
So what’s changing?
There’s a lot happening with Yahoo! Mail Classic. Some new features are being added, some changed and some removed. Over the years, we’ve been listening to your comments and what to you’ve been requesting as well as taking a look at some of the stuff you just don’t ever use. So I wanted to list here just some of the highlights that you’ll be seeing over the coming weeks:
– Auto-save to Draft – Yahoo! Mail Classic now automatically saves a copy of the message you’re working on in your Drafts folder in case you lose your internet connection or your computer malfunctions.
- Simpler uploading and downloading attachments – In most cases, downloading now requires just one click!
- One-Click Flagging – The new Flag column (just one column to the right of the check-boxes) makes it super easy to flag messages.
- Folder Renaming – Rename and delete your personal folders directly within the folder view.
- More Intuitive Names – References to “Address Book” have been changed to “Contacts”, and your “Bulk” folder will instead be called “Spam” (since that’s what it is).
There’s even more than what I’ve listed here. For the full list of changes, check out the “What’s different…” page within the help pages of the new Classic version.
When will these changes happen?
To be honest, some of you may already be seeing these new Classic Mail features. But most of you will see these changes arrive in Classic over the next few weeks. You can tell if you’ve got the updates by looking at the image above. If you see the features outlined in red, then you have the updates.
As always, happy emailing!!
Andrew – Yahoo! Mail Team
Can I have my avatar back please.
I feel lost without my avitar. It is no longer visible. Thank you for the many improvements, however may I have my avitar back?
I’ve tried to make it visble but cannot.
I think that to get more people interested in joining a blog or getting there first email, or whatever to with emails, i think all this writing should be put in bullet points or something else to make it look more interesting, well thats my comment take it how ever you like it, i hope you take it in mind
i cant send emails to lots of people anymore because i have to type in all their addresses!!!! bring back the old way
Under ‘Options’ -> ‘General Preferences’ you have the option select:
“Redirect incoming unsolicited mail to the Bulk Mail folder”
For consistancy, should this not now be?:
Redirect incoming unsolicited mail to the Spam folder
j.fastnedge – I dont get people like you and comments like “your loss!” lets be honest, like Yahoo care about a freeloader like you – if a service is worth having surely it is worth paying for – why cant you spend the £10 a year for the good service that you know and love and that £10 will be almost certainly be spent making it even better – a small price for a great service I think most people would agreee. Either that or dont complain about the options in the free version, after all Yahoo are a business.
Sorry to raise a silly point but I always seem to have difficulties viewing e-mails which contain pictures, if I download the attachments, I still can’t merge the text with the pictures – what should I do?
Thanks
kudos to the planning committee of yahoo mail classic who decide quickly to anwer unflagged but reasonable questions of their customers. I particularly, I have been expecting these miracles to happen since the advent of yahoo mail beta which make us complain a little bit as per some disadvantages we experience there. We will be very appreciative if the work is quickly completed to let us enjoy yahoo classic more better even best than all mail provider in the world. I wish you best of the best.
Sky is your limit but you make us belief you can easily go beyound the sky to expoit what is good for us there.
Whats up with my adress, I cant do athing with it now. FIX IT PLEASE. I cant loose all the informaton in it, just like that. AND if you mind NOOOOOOOOW!!!!!!!!
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Hi Missie,
I asked our customer care to take a look at your account and everything seems to be OK. Check again and I think you’ll find your account is in good working order. If you have further issues, please contact customer care directly at: http://help.yahoo.com/l/uk/yahoo/mail/classic/contactus/index.html
Thanks,
Andrew – Yahoo Mail Team
Why do I have to now look up manually all my e.mail addresses? I just used to type in my nickname and up it came. It takes ages to go into Contact List and find the one. I can’t memorise all of them. I’m cheesed off!
I have two additional accounts: yahoo and ymail, but I have difficulty checking my mails from these two accounts using the feature in the New Yahoo Mail. Please provide the POP mail server for both yahoo and ymail. Thank you.
I use both yahoo classic and the new classic. For me , its about choosing the option that I want to use when I want to use it. Some people can be so fixated on the things they are used to and are afraid of change… tough. Technology is evolving and sometimes we need to move on.
Hi since the ‘New’ updated yahoo email account can somebody please explain to me why my accunt now wont work. I run on MAC OS and yahoo has been fab, well untill they aparently improved it! Now I cant send emails as my account says all the addresses are invalid……why did you have to change without warning the users of the system first?!
I have tried the help section and have got bored of the same answers that get me no closer to solving it. Do you really think that the surgestion that I change my operating system just so i can use Yahoo is a reallistic one?!!!
Anyone else in my position?
When you asked us to fill in your survey you asked us about classic & I said dont change it. Looks like im not in a minority by hating it. Why do people have to change things just for changes sake & why did you ask what we thought only to totally ignore us.We may be in the 21st century but 1 thing that will NEVER change is that Customers (us out here in cyberspace) make paydays possible. PUT IT BACK TO HOW IT WAS!!!