REMINDER: Charity auctions closing soon!
I don’t normally post on the weekends, but since this is for charity I thought I could make an exception. Earlier in the week you probably saw that we are auctioning off (with help from eBay Giving Works) some special ymail and rocketmail addresses for charity. Well those auctions are ending in a […]
It’s moving day: how to migrate to that new account
- Posted June 26th, 2008 at 6:03 pm by Ryan
- Categories: All-New Mail, Classic Mail, General, New Stuff, Tips & Tutorials
With so many of you snapping up shiny, new, ymail and rocketmail addresses over the last few days, I suspect at least a few of you will be wanting to actually use them.
As I mentioned earlier in the week, Yahoo! does not offer an option to merge multiple Yahoo! accounts together. Typically people opened secondary […]
Charity auctions for select ymail & rocketmail addresses
- Posted June 25th, 2008 at 4:08 pm by Ryan
- Categories: All-New Mail, Classic Mail, General, New Stuff
If you were thinking about moving to one of the ymail or rocketmail addresses, but simply couldn’t decide which address to pick, you are in luck. The Yahoo! Mail team, along with help from the folks from eBay’s Giving Works team, are auctioning off select ymail and rocketmail IDs for charity.
Not only do the proceeds […]
Answering some questions about new email domains
- Posted June 24th, 2008 at 2:15 pm by Ryan
- Categories: All-New Mail, Classic Mail, General, New Stuff
It’s great to see that so many of you have taken an interest in the new, alternate domain, IDs, but I also see that there are a lot of you with questions. I thought it might be a good idea to try and address a few of the more common ones in a post. […]
New email addresses for all my friends!
- Posted June 19th, 2008 at 12:08 pm by Ryan
- Categories: All-New Mail, Classic Mail, General, New Stuff
For many of you this may not be all that exciting (heck, if you are reading the Yahoo! Mail product blog it’s reasonable to assume you have a Yahoo! Mail account already) but for a lot of people out there getting that perfect email address has proven to be a bit of a white whale. […]
UPDATE: HTML Rendering Issues
- Posted June 19th, 2008 at 10:35 am by Ryan
- Categories: All-New Mail, Classic Mail, General
Just a quick update for those of you concerned about the spacing in HTML emails. Our engineers have sleuthed out the problem, and a fix will be rolling out in the coming weeks.
In the meantime, many senders have found that using two line breaks (<br>) instead of a conventional paragraph space (</p>) has been […]
RESOLVED: Issues retrieving from external accounts
- Posted June 16th, 2008 at 2:13 pm by Ryan
- Categories: All-New Mail, Classic Mail, General
As I mentioned last week, we decided to rollback the recent changes to the external retrieval feature. That rollback has completed and functionality should be completely restored. However, the changes also removed the recently added SSL option, so if you have recently added an account that utilized the new SSL option, any attempts […]
Give us your shortcuts, your workarounds, your expert tips longing to be free!
- Posted June 11th, 2008 at 3:58 pm by Ryan
- Categories: All-New Mail, Classic Mail, General, Tips & Tutorials
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ve probably noticed that I’ll ape just about anything pop culture or historical to get your attention, and you’ve also noticed that I like to offer up tips and tutorials to help you use Yahoo! Mail.
While watching National Treasure: Book of Secrets over the weekend […]
2nd UPDATE: Issues retrieving from external accounts
- Posted June 9th, 2008 at 4:10 pm by Ryan
- Categories: All-New Mail, Classic Mail, General
As many of you are probably aware, users are still running into problems retrieving email from their external accounts. Our teams have been reviewing your submissions and analyzing the situation, however the top priority is restoring the original functionality you had.
At this time the plan is to roll back the recent changes to the […]
UPDATE: Issues retrieving from external accounts
- Posted June 6th, 2008 at 2:55 pm by Ryan
- Categories: All-New Mail, Classic Mail, General
Earlier this week I posted about issues some users have been experiencing when trying to retrieve email from external accounts within Yahoo! Mail. I’ve been checking with folks internally and have pulled together some additional information for you.
Recently we made some changes to how external account retrieval works. Most notably we added SSL functionality (enhanced […]
