Check out the new Mail Overview site!
- Posted August 12th, 2008 at 12:11 pm by Ryan
- Categories: All-New Mail, Classic Mail, General, Life of Liam, New Stuff, Tips & Tutorials
If you’ve ever wanted a place to go to get a quick snapshot of everything about Yahoo! Mail, I have some splendid news for you. We have just rolled out an all new Product Overview site (overview.mail.yahoo.com) that should (in theory) contain anything and everything you wanted to know about the features and functions of Yahoo! Mail, but didn’t know where to ask. Here comes the preview, but make sure you read to the end for some additional news about the blog.
As you can see there is an easy to follow navigation bar at the top of every page. You can drill down within the Products tab to get detailed information about Classic or All-New Mail, and if you’ve ever wanted to know the differences, there is an option for that too. You get side by side feature comparison of both versions, with some details about Plus features too.
Each main product page also has tab choices that let you see not only the current features, but also a summary list of all of the most recent changes.
But maybe you don’t want just a summary list of the changes. If that’s the case you needn’t fret because there is another option in the main navigation bar that lets you review detailed descriptions of What’s New with Yahoo! Mail.
Maybe you want to know more about integrated chat or SMS within the All-New Mail. Perhaps you were living under a rock and never heard that we offer unlimited storage for all users. No matter your flavor, you can find the latest major product breakdowns under that tab.
Under the enhancements tab you can find a very detailed description of all of the features of Yahoo! Mail Plus, accompanied by one of my favorite Liam incarnations…Super Liam!
And I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the coolest aspect of the overview site…the giant link to this blog! Sure you are already here now, but I’m all for anything that makes it easier for you to get back, as well as anything that could bring some new readers.
If you happen to be someone who found your way here for the first time thanks to that link, please do subscribe to the RSS feed and come back again. Here you will find breaking news about both versions of Yahoo! Mail, product demos, screencasts, and news about bugs that may be impacting your Mail experience, all with a healthy dose of lighthearted humor (except on the bug posts, of course).
There’s lots of stuff to check out on the Overview site, so please have a look around. Also, I want to let you all know (or at least the folks who read all the way to the end of my posts) that I’m going to be out of the office for the next week, so be patient if you don’t see any comment responses from me for a few days.
I’ve queued up some great posts with the pics users submitted of the places they use Yahoo! Mail, and they will be going up while I’m gone. Enjoy, and I’ll be back soon!
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August 12th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Help!!!
I can’t get my email I keep getting the following error message… What’s up with this?
Ouch!
The error, LaunchCascadeError-ymws:Client.ClientRedirect.HostCorrection, occurred when trying to connect to Yahoo! Mail.
August 13th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
well if your yahoo email doesnt work maybe you shouuld just get another email
August 18th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
yahoo e-mail just isn’t what it used to be and that is why facebook or myspace seems to be the way of evolution
September 12th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
It has become impossible to get my yahoo e mail in Asia. It is always down. The make claim to be the best in Asia, but to be honest they are at the bottom of the service ladder.
September 13th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Why the H**l can’t get to my email
August 12th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
How can you delete loads of unwanted email at once? Thanks!!!!
August 13th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
I have over 15,000 e-mails that will not delete!!
They multiply over night when I delete and empty the trash box
What to DO???
September 1st, 2008 at 6:58 am
get a spam filter, or turn the one ON, by yahoo mail.
August 13th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
all u have to do to delete a bunch of emails at once is check them and when u checked all the pnes u wanted to delete then press delete
August 30th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Hi Martha, Here’s now I delete several unwanted emails: I put a check mark in each one and then click on delete. Hope this answer has helped u out.
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:53 pm
well, u have to either check mark them or highlight them and hit delete
August 12th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Your email is not working it makes me go back to log in page over and over after I sine in ?????? I’m a business owner that has a website with yahoo and I can’t get into my mail ???? Will you pay me back what I’m lousing because I cant send bids out ???
August 13th, 2008 at 6:50 am
Have called technical support? If you have a paid account there is an 800 access number for you to get support. You might want to cleen up your speling win you rite your buzines leters.
August 13th, 2008 at 7:09 am
Ecrib, you cant talk your spelling also sucks
August 13th, 2008 at 7:33 am
Er, I think Ecrib is attempting to be ironic Peter!
August 27th, 2008 at 10:36 am
My email hasn’t worked either for about a week now. Do you know what the technical support number is that you mentioned?
August 13th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
With grammar and spelling like yours its hard to imagine you even have a business, furthermore I don’t know of any successful business that has a yahoo mailing address.
August 27th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Reset your internet exployer settings
August 12th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
i can only send one e-mail at a time , if i send more than one it knocks me off line. please help
August 13th, 2008 at 1:30 am
olla
August 14th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
yeah, the proper spelling is “holla”
August 13th, 2008 at 7:18 am
when typing in email addresses to send to, yahoo helps by bringing up list of email addresses to choose from in a drop down menu. It brings up all addresses ever used with yahoo – even if that address has been changed or deleted from yahoo contacts. how do I delete the unwanted addresses from the drop down box so I don’t inadvertently choose one that is no longer good?
August 13th, 2008 at 11:02 am
your email problems of a week ago (timing?) are happening again…
August 13th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Whilst all this fluff is nice…how about fixing what matters? Why’s search *Still* broken in the new Y! Mail?
August 13th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
I currently have 523 items in my spam inbox…are they ever automatically deleted or must I do it myself every time?
August 13th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Please someone show me how to use the chat room on messenger. How to use My yahoo. Well this is all a mess. please somebody help me.
August 30th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
This is how I do it. at the top click the word messenger, click on yahoo chat, click on join a room, find the room u want, click on the + sign, then click twice on the room you want that’s in the list, click enter chat, click on the blue link, type in the code and submit. That will take u into the room.
August 30th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
At the top click on messenger, click on yahoo chat, clilck on join a room, find the room you want, click on that + sign, then click twice on the room you want that’s in the list, click enter chat, click on blue link, type in the code and click submit.
August 13th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Ever since this mail thing changed last night I have lost my abikltity to even FIND chat.
What is happening???
I have only one contact I talk to on chat and we talk every day. Now when I open up contacts and try to press the chat icon it says IM sent. No link to my chat room.
What will I do??
I am desolate without my chat mate!
August 13th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
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August 14th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Whenever I open an email today, I’m getting this dialog box:
We were unable to save your preferecens. Please try again
YES, that is how it is spelled! Makes me think about a virus, but everything scanned ok.
I also noticed that the advertisement at the top is not showing, I think it might be trying to save a cookie for yieldmanager.com or something.
I just installed the latest updates from Microsoft for XP.
Thanks
August 14th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Yahoo email stinks! For four days in a row I got error code 5 messages when trying to access my mail. When I called the toll free number for help, they didn’t even know what an error code 5 message is? DUH!!! I have been using a free aol account for months, but thought I’d go back to yahoo (ATT is my isp), but now I know why I hate yahoo email.
August 14th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
jay smith… you’re an idiot. quit wasting people’s time with your 3rd grade spelling and 2nd grade lies.
August 14th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Both my friend and I are very frustrated because we cannot go any where to change any settings to keep our forwarded emails from going out as an attachment. I like to clean up my forwards and remove all the names before I resend them. There is no way to do this now except to copy and paste them into a new compose email. If there is another way to do this please email me and let me know. I do not like you new system. I even went over to my friends to try and show her how to delete all the addresses she sends to me. No luck.
I will appriciate any help you can give me.
Thanks.
August 14th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Before some days, I received e-mails along with image. But now-a-days, I cannot see any image sent to me. Please help me at this.
August 15th, 2008 at 8:24 am
Yahoo mail bugs
1 More and more often now, my email gets sent when I am not even half way finished. Rebooting helps, but today afte rebooting my letter transmitted when it was about half finished. This looks really unprofessional at the receiving end? Yahoo does not have a bug department that I can find.
2 Lately when I am writing a letter and click back to a website to get exact information and click back to my letter. The letter is gone except for the recipient’s name.
3 Printing yahoo letters results in much of the text overflowing the righthand of the screeen. It is a nuisance to copy & paste the yahoo letter into Word and print it from there.
4 I don’t think Yahoo cares about things like this, or they would have a clear avenue of feedback.
August 16th, 2008 at 8:15 am
I’ve had a yahoo email acct for about 10 yrs. I recently changed to ymail because my old acct was starting to get hundreds of spam mails daily. Now on ymail, I can’t seem to get some emails, especially from bellsouth.net. No one can seem to tell me why. Bellsouth tells me it’s a yahoo problem. I even have made filters for all these email addresses. I’m now using the paid email at ymail and still no better. I called and they referred me to the yahoo postmaster and he referred me here.
August 16th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
I’ve had the same problem as Robert for the last week or so. Right in the middle of typing an email, sometimes it just sends. It does look very unprofessional on the receiving end. Robert, the only solution I can come up with is to NOT put anything in the TO line until you’re through typing the email. Then it won’t know who to send to. But it’s funny…….when I remember to do that, it never tries to send the email before I’m through.
Ryan, any clue what’s going on here?
August 17th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Before the changes, if I remember correctly, if you marked a message as Spam it sent it to the blocked addresses, didn’t it? That is not happening now. I delete those that come into the Spam folder and also those that come through to my InBox that are Spam….but they are never added to the Blocked Address site. Do we have to manually put email addresses we want blocked on the Blocked Address site? Again, a change that makes us have to take extra steps to do something that was easily taken care of before the changes.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:05 pm
All I know is this and I read it somewhere, unwanted emails: mark them as spam and delete them. I haven’t tried to do it yet, but I hope it works
August 17th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
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August 18th, 2008 at 2:31 am
Yahoo! Mail is great, but it sucks major time when it comes to SUPPORT and SUPPORTING encoding!!!
I have sent many emails about the encoding and some add on features, but no one has taken any action..
August 19th, 2008 at 7:53 am
I like the way the contacts were listed in the old mail . . .the new mail listing is not user friendly.
August 21st, 2008 at 8:11 am
All the enhancements are fine, but Yahoo is going to lose me as a mail customer if it doesn’t start offering IMAP. Simple as that. Friends have switched to GMail for this feature alone.
August 21st, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Have been trying for many weeks to get my husband’s e-mail set up so it will download to Entourage – same domain name as mine, but his simply doesn’t work. I’ve literally been on the phone for hours over this.
I was finally told that the problems were due to a major change in Yahoo BizMail, scheduled for August 20. Now it is August 21 and his e-mail still doesn’t work. Does anyone know what’s up with this?
August 24th, 2008 at 7:49 am
Every time they change something things are messed up. I’m about ready to give up on Yahoo and move on to another email provider.
September 7th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Yahoo sign-in issues have NOT been resolved. I wonder if they really know what they are doing as frustration continues.
August 26th, 2008 at 8:54 am
Why can’t I access my yahoo mail account? This is the 2nd day with no access. When I try it goes to a time-out error.
August 26th, 2008 at 11:11 am
can’t access the “new” unasked for email account since the change on Sunday. how frustrating and prospective clients can’t reach me. I’m pissed!
August 26th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Im new and I just wanted to introduce myself to the yahoo community and tell everyone that I’m a writer and will be bloging on my deep dark personal journey that brought me to what I call the Age of Inlightment and Spiritual Awakening!
My e-maill is Purpleamythstone@yahoo.com or Purpleamythstone@myspace.com
August 27th, 2008 at 6:06 am
How can I set up IMAP with Mozilla Thunderbird with my new Ymail account? I am brand new user and hoping to use Ymail as my business account.
August 27th, 2008 at 9:09 am
My friends said that here at Yahoo mesages are easily sent. How true is that?
August 28th, 2008 at 8:19 am
For the past 2 days now i have not been able to access my e-mail messages.I got a lot of important mails that require my attention.what do i do?
August 28th, 2008 at 9:09 am
I can’t get to my mail either. I was able to set up a new account that works, but my existing account (with all the e-mail I need to read) hasn’t for the last 3 days. Who do I contact, or what do I do? (It’s not a paid acccount, so I don’t have a support number to call.)
Thanks,
August 30th, 2008 at 6:01 am
What is up with Yahoo mail? I haven’t been able to get to my mail for almost a week now? Tried sending their forms to them, no reply. Please if anyone has any information, Post it! Makes it rough when you have personal business mail that is coming to you and you can’t get to it!!!!!
August 30th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
A few days ago I registered for Tagged. What’s nice is that besides having email, they also have chat rooms, profiles, etc. They have just changed the chat room format. I wished they had left it alone. Now when I go to a chat room there I have no place to type in my message to the room. I have even tried to minimize the room, but that makes the room go away. There are lots of people chatting there. I don’t understand why I have this problem. If there is anybody here that has Tagged, I would like to have their opinion.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:11 pm
I figured out how to fix the chat room in tagged. I changed the % thingy in the bottom right corner. Then I was able to get to the arrows and move the room up so I could type in it. I had gotten a repy from yahoo on what to do, but it was very complicated. Luckily I was able to fix the problem myself.
September 3rd, 2008 at 3:50 pm
How come there’s still no place to suggest new features?
The biggest annoyance in yahoo mail is that when I search for something it searches through all my folders instead of just the current one, and to narrow it to just one folder I have to click on something afterwards. Why can’t I just search for “-from joe@example.com +inbox” (that syntax would look familiar to anyone who ever used mh). Just below that is that search doesn’t do anything until I hit the search button – why can’t it incrementally filter the current view as I type, the way my desktop mail client does?
September 16th, 2008 at 6:55 am
i agree with you!
September 5th, 2008 at 7:40 am
I hate the new FLAG option and the fact that the drop down list only has the options of reading FLAGGED MAIL or UNREAD MAIL. What happened to the Addressbook icon? That allowed me to know that the e-mail was from someone I knew. What happed to the choich of seeing just the mail from UNKNOWN, in the drop down list? That allowed me to further weed out suspicious mail. FLAG options do not allow me to protect my Computer. Now, I can’t see at a glance if I need to add someone to my adressbook or mark them as span. I am so dissappointed. I use to use the old features to check my mail before I imported them into OE on my home computer. It just cost me $79 to get a virus, embedded in an e-mail, off of my computer. It was added to an e-mail I would have marked as spam, using your older version. I am livid, to say the least.
September 14th, 2008 at 12:25 am
no.
September 16th, 2008 at 6:53 am
i think it was ok! i don’t know! i didn’t have the time to read everything…ect. because of my kids are being loud and noisy! ( i have 9!)
September 16th, 2008 at 6:54 am
i think it was ok! i don’t know! i didn’t have the time to read everything…ect. because of my kids are being loud and noisy! ( i have 9!)
i love yahoo mail!
September 16th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Hi there
A while ago I decided to use Outlook as my email interface as I wasn't content with the old yahoo design and functionality. Now the new yahoo mail is excellent, I would like to move my email back there again but as I didn't keep a copy of the messages on the server, it would involve forwarding several hundred messages back to the server.
In your future updates could you please allow the uploading of a PST file back up to the Yahoo mail servers. I think this would be useful for existing customers but also to attract new customers – at present if a Gmail user for example wishes to switch over, there is no way of importing his existing files and folders. Surely this would be an excellent marketing tactic to entice new users.
Thanks
Richard
September 27th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Did anyone have issues trying to activate the new Yahoo Mail on a PC with XP/SP2 behind a corporate firewall? I have until recently and kept getting login errors. I had to turn off the ad blocker in Symantic to make it work. Did anyone else have anything like this?
October 24th, 2008 at 11:41 am
what happened to the rss feeds? that was one of the best features of the new mail and substituting the my yahoo page isn’t the same.
November 10th, 2008 at 6:29 am
In the past 2-3 weeks, I haven’t been able to open email attachments. Norton pops up in which you click on “Download Attachment” . . . then nothing. Absolutely nothing! I have jpg and pdf files that I can’t see. One of them is the sonogram of my newest, anticipated grandchild. Crazy this is this – both my husband and I have Yahoo Mail, but I am the only one with this problem. What the hay?!?!
November 10th, 2008 at 6:34 am
Oh, and I don’t use Norton Antivirus. I use a different program and cannot figure out why all this is always coming up. Even if people are sending me attachments using their version of Norton, why is it always showing up on my end? I’m so frigging frustrated and aggravated that I can’t find a support number to get help from Yahoo. UGH!!!
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