UPDATED: Yahoo! Mail Workshop - What do you want to talk about?
- Posted September 29th, 2008 at 3:56 pm by Ryan
- Categories: All-New Mail, Classic Mail, General, Tips & Tutorials
In July we held our first Yahoo! Mail Workshop. It featured a live Q&A with Yahoo! Spam Czar, Mark Risher, and the response we got from everyone was very positive. If you don’t recall the details, Workshops are live, online, moderated chats led by Yahoo! staff, with a focus on a specific topic of conversation [...]
Flash in my YMail?
- Posted September 26th, 2008 at 12:26 pm by Ryan
- Categories: All-New Mail, General
There have been some questions about how updating your Flash could have anything to do with inputting text for your messages. In fact Flash doesn’t play a role in text input, but it does touch on some other aspects of the All-New Yahoo! Mail. Most notable would be the Chat/Messenger feature (which has been around [...]
Keystrokes not registering? A Flash update might do the trick
- Posted September 22nd, 2008 at 12:34 pm by Ryan
- Categories: All-New Mail, General
It has come to my attention that some users have reported problems with keystrokes not registering within the compose box of the All-New Yahoo! Mail.
Our engineers are working on the issue, but in the meantime you may be able to resolve it yourself if you make sure your browser is running the most current version [...]
Liam be doin’ his best Pirate impersonation … sorta
- Posted September 19th, 2008 at 12:49 pm by Ryan
- Categories: General, Life of Liam
Ahoy mateys! Thar be a phenomenon that be takin’ the world by storm today. Lest ye hadn’t heard, but today be International Talk Like Pirate Day, an’ far be it from me t’ withold one o’ the best costumed Liam’s we be havin’.
If ye haven’t heard, this new “holiday” be pickin’ up steam o’er the [...]
Tips for protecting your Yahoo! Mail account
- Posted September 18th, 2008 at 12:39 pm by Ryan
- Categories: All-New Mail, Anti-Spam, Classic Mail, General, Security
We want to make sure we give users info about steps they can take to enhance the security of their account. So our VP of Mail, John Kremer, has put together a message (courtesy of the Yodel blog) that highlights many of the things people can do to protect themselves online.
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Mail security tips
There are nearly [...]
Improving Yahoo Mail POP and SMTP Access
- Posted September 18th, 2008 at 9:46 am by AndrewM
- Categories: Yahoo! Mail UK
A while back I mentioned that we had an issue that affected some of you retrieving your mail using a POP mail client like Outlook, Thunderbird, Eudora, etc. Even though we fixed that issue some time ago, it prompted us to take a look to see if there was any room to improve the [...]
Need to change your Yahoo! Password or Name? There’s a tutorial for that
- Posted September 16th, 2008 at 5:13 pm by Ryan
- Categories: All-New Mail, Anti-Spam, Classic Mail, General, Mac, Security, Tips & Tutorials
I was chatting with a buddy from Customer Experience the other day (everybody say hi to Carl. He is not only tasked with finding ways to make your Customer Care experience more pleasant, but he also reads this blog from time to time), and I learned about some of the common questions agents are getting.
Now [...]
One iPhone app to rule them all: Y! oneConnect
- Posted September 11th, 2008 at 1:32 pm by Ryan
- Categories: Address Book & Calendar, All-New Mail, Classic Mail, General, Mac, New Stuff
There was some big news yesterday from our Mobile team. Yahoo! oneConnect was released for the iPhone! For those of you who aren’t familiar with oneConnect, it is designed to help you communicate with not only your Yahoo! friends, but also the friends you have on social networks like Facebook, Flickr, MySpace, Youtube, Bebo, Dopplr, [...]
Yahoo! Open Hack Day, Sept. 12-13, 2008
- Posted September 8th, 2008 at 10:21 am by Ryan
- Categories: All-New Mail, Classic Mail, General
If you’ve heard of Hack Day before, you probably know that hack days are usually just for Yahoo! employees. But this time the event is a wide open, public hack day where people with a passion for Yahoo! products can come together to build and share their best ideas for extending, re-shaping and mashing together [...]
Move messages with a keystroke
- Posted September 5th, 2008 at 11:40 am by AndrewM
- Categories: Yahoo! Mail UK
I love the click and drag functionality of the all-new mail. It makes moving messages a snap. But if reaching for your mouse is too tiring, have I got a tip for you. This tip is squarely aimed at all you efficiency freaks out there - you know who you are ;-). [...]