REMINDER: Charity auctions closing soon!
- Posted June 29th, 2008 at 12:00 pm by Ryan
- Categories: Classic Mail, General
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 [...]
Making the move to that new @ymail.com or @rocketmail.com
- Posted June 27th, 2008 at 1:31 pm by AndrewM
- Categories: Yahoo! Mail UK
So, were you successful in getting the email name that you’ve always wanted? That’s great news!! Now, are you trying to decide how to let everyone know that you’ve got a terrific new email address? And maybe you’re wondering if you can move all your mail and contacts over to that new [...]
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. [...]
YOURNAMEHERE @ymail.com or @rocketmail.com
- Posted June 20th, 2008 at 8:15 am by AndrewM
- Categories: Yahoo! Mail UK
Hot off the presses…. We’ve just added two new domains to the Yahoo! Mail family. Now you can get that same top-notch Yahoo! Mail experience but with “@ymail.com” or “@rocketmail.com”.
What that means is that you have more opportunity to get the email address that you’ve always wanted. I’m sure you might be [...]
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 [...]
Update: Blog Downtime
- Posted June 18th, 2008 at 2:46 pm by AndrewM
- Categories: Yahoo! Mail UK
Update: The upgrade went OK. Not without a hitch or two, so you may have experienced some strange behaviour this afternoon. If you find anything wrong with the blog, please post a comment on this post, and I’ll investigate.
Hi everyone. In order to patch some security vulnerablities on this blog, I’m [...]
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 [...]