Mac and Windows users can bond over YMail on Safari
- Posted July 31st, 2008 at 10:54 am by Ryan
- Categories: All-New Mail, General, Mac, New Stuff
In our ongoing efforts to help users connect, I thought it would be fun to let all the Windows and Mac users out there know that you now have something in common. You can both use the All-New Yahoo! Mail in the Safari browser.
That’s right, the All-New Mail is now fully compatible with the latest Mac and Windows versions of the Safari browser. It’s actually been rolling out over the last few weeks, so many of you have probably already noticed.
Our guys have worked very closely with folks from Apple to ensure that Safari users on both sides of the OS war can enjoy a great experience in Safari. (Unfortunately for me this work hasn’t netted me any Apple swag, but oh well. I guess it’s probably more important to actually work on compatibility anyway.)
This also means that if you are someone who has straddled that fence because your work machine and home machine ran different systems (as I did for far too long), you have another browser option that will provide a consistent experience on both machines.
There it is…one more thing for Mac and PC users to agree on. A great experience with YMail in Safari.
The Yahoo! Mail team…bringing users together. 
Ryan Knight
Community Manager
Yahoo! Mail
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- 35 Comments
July 31st, 2008 at 11:14 am
Hi Ryan,
Off topic but… Thanks for brining back the map in the calendar ticker when you hover over an appointment. It’s a great feature. It makes Yahoo! Mail one step closer to having all the info. you need within a click.
Thanks,
-Tripp-
July 31st, 2008 at 11:26 am
Tripp,
Off topic praise is not only welcome, but strongly encouraged :)
-Ryan
August 9th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
where did my avatar go ? use to be shown on home pg and email, not there any more, and cant find where to even add it back ?
August 28th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
what you do is you go to yahoo search and search avatar that how i got my avatar!!!!
August 30th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
what does that mean anyway
July 31st, 2008 at 1:10 pm
As a Mac and PC user, this is great news!
Next up – iCal to Yahoo Calendar sync? Puh-leeze?
August 28th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
So do you think that PC or MAC is better i think that MAC is good but i wouldn’t say the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
July 31st, 2008 at 4:31 pm
With the new mail my mail search no longer works. It no longer finds stuff that I KNOW is there. NOW I have to do it the hard way by opening years of mail to find what I am looking for. I used to be able to search by word, or name, or email address and woooosh what I am looking for comes up . now all I get is
Sorry. We didn’t find any results matching the following criteria:
* containing the search term: Blah Blah
You might want to:
* Broaden your search by using fewer search terms
* Check your spelling
* Try using different words that mean the same thing
I miss the old mail.
August 1st, 2008 at 6:00 am
I really want to recommend this safari browser to those who havn’t used it till now. So those who are fed up of their old browser buy it today
http://www.safaribrowserwindows.com
August 1st, 2008 at 9:17 am
That’s great, but I still can’t access my business mail from the new Yahoo mail like I used to be able to in the old Yahoo mail. Any plans on working THAT out?
August 1st, 2008 at 6:47 pm
[...] Going on a Mail Safari: If you’ve been longing to use the All-New Yahoo! Mail with your Safari browser, pine no more. Full compatibility is here. Better yet, it’s OS agnostic, so it works with both the latest Mac and Windows versions of Safari. And that’s especially handy if you switch-hit between Mac and PC at home and work. Let’s hear it for harmony. More here. [...]
August 2nd, 2008 at 12:58 am
I was wondering and praying. How hard would it be for yahoo to add picture ID to Email like cellphone. I really need it. I have so many people with the same 1st name and I can’t remember who’s last name is who’s.
August 28th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
I don’t think that is good cause what if someone goes on your email and just like tells people that you hate them and then you lose all your friends an then you wonder who did that and then you get scared that has happened to me and let me tell you it will scare you half to death!!!!!
August 1st, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Dear Ryan
My name Anna , I am living at Viet Nam .Glad to know you ! .
I can not sign in my mail .Pleased kindly help me .
August 1st, 2008 at 7:22 pm
I have to agree with Bruce–the search mechanism on the new Yahoo Mail utterly fails to work properly. I have the same experience of not being able to find items that I KNOW are there, and I can find them when I scroll down far enough. It used to work great–does anyone know what’s happened, or if there’s a fix in progress?
August 1st, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Well why do you like to go to safari?
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Rohan
Illinois Treatment Centers
August 2nd, 2008 at 7:03 am
Hi, Ryan,
I love the things that you write here, and how you treat us all like real people and give us some attention.
I’ve been using Yahoo mail practically since the beggining and I love it!
I wonder when the All-New will be working in my Opera 9.5 browser…
Is there any hope? Do you have some dates? :?:
August 2nd, 2008 at 8:20 am
That’s nice. Supporting IMAP (and POP) for free accounts like that other search engine’s free email service would make this a moot point, of course…
August 2nd, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Ryan,
HELP! Off topic but I do not know how to find another way of getting info.
How do I turn off the scanning of attachments?
It drives me nuts as it >>only<< seems to happen when I am on deadline trying to submit a whooping 900 word document.
Aaaah! can you help?
August 2nd, 2008 at 8:29 pm
I like the fact that I can now use the stationery with Mac Safari. Thanks for another option.
August 3rd, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Hello, off topic, BUT… I opened a ymail account and received a cute little notice inviting me to TRANSFER contacts, calendar, and emails over to my new ymail account, by using TrueSwitch.
Surprise — when I went through the link and did the Trueswitch routine, a number of email domains were listed to transfer FROM, including SBCGLOBAL.NET, but not PACBELL.NET.
There is NO WAY to reach Yahoo by phone — or online — so whadda I do now. HELP !!! I need to pull my stuff into ymail from pacbell.net, and I am stranded because there is no way to override and specifiy pacbell.net because the pull-down list does NOT include it (pacbell.net is now is a part of ATT Yahoo like so many of the others…). Can you fix please?????? Talking strictly webmail here, all my email is all on the server… thanks in advance. – Rich
August 3rd, 2008 at 4:49 pm
…pacbell.net Trueswitch problem, and one more thing, I can’t ask a question on Yahoo Answers because I get this message:
Not Yet Migrated
HELP !
August 4th, 2008 at 4:02 am
I think the new system is dreadful. I cannot open attachments whatever I try to do. Why do people have to mess with things that are running perfectly well.
August 4th, 2008 at 4:38 am
the safari browser is so much better than any of th other browsers
http://www.safaribrowserwindows.com
August 4th, 2008 at 6:38 am
I am the least computer savvy person on the planet so I THINK this is a good idea. But what is it? Do you have to set up an acct in Ymail? I have both a Mac and a Windows PC. Should I set up a Ymail account on both of them?
Thanks for any help
August 4th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Harper,
No need to set up additional YMail accounts. It just means that if Windows users who download and install the Safari browser can use it to access their YMail accounts. Mac users get Safari automatically.
-Ryan
August 4th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
I’ve been a Safari fan for a while now and it’s nice to see Yahoo! Mail catch up. Next, Yahoo! MUST enable POP access for free accounts. Hey, I understand you have to make a profit, but that “other” search engine has offered free POP access for years. Combined with calendar sync for Outlook, document creation, editing and storage, the “other” guy is eating you for lunch. I know Yahoo! Mail Plus is only $20 a year, but I just canceled my premium service because I have a free alternative that actually works well and filters spam far more efficiently that Yahoo! Mail Plus. Sorry guys, too little too late.
August 5th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Yahoo uses IMAP for the iPhone, all we need is IMAP for Mail clients, such as the “Mail” application under Apple’s OS X.
POP is something that is almost useless, since a LOT of people check emails across multiple platforms.
August 6th, 2008 at 8:07 am
Any chance of a Yahoo! Toolbar for Safari? Having automatic e’mail notification from the Yahoo! Toolbar is a key reason why I use Yahoo! Mail. I briefly looked into Safari a few months ago, but dropped the idea when I found there was no support for Yahoo! Toolbar.
August 6th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Matt,
That’s actually something that is managed by the folks running the Toolbar, but I’ll pass this along to our Mail folks and see if we can’t exert some “encouragement”.
-Ryan
August 7th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
What about Opera support?
August 11th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Hi. I’m having trouble sending attachments to my mother and Aunt and Father. I have yahoo plus they don’t, Internet Explorer 7.0. wireless from Cablelynx modem. Mom said you need a microscope to see the picture. She double clicks on picture nothing. She is unable to click open the attachment link. Plus it takes ages for a photo to attach on my end of the process. Any suggestions? Thank you.
August 23rd, 2008 at 10:02 pm
hi.Ryan. my problem is that i can’t check my mail whether it come.i access my accouynt but it can show my mail .so give me any suggestion.
September 24th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
How do you get ymail into the safari browser on an imac? Is y mail POP or IMAP ?
October 7th, 2008 at 10:15 am
Hi Ryan,
I just got a Macbook and I can not use the Mail feature with my yahoo address.. I looked it up on the Apple website and it says the following: “Mail works with the most popular email providers, like Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, and AOL Mail, automatically configuring those cryptic server settings for you.”
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/mail.html
Would you mind helping me with this issue ? Please =)