Calendar Beta updates
- Posted November 20th, 2008 at 1:58 pm by Ryan
- Categories: Address Book & Calendar, All-New Mail, Classic Mail, General, New Stuff
Hopefully you saw that the Calendar team already restored the ability for users to switch back from the beta, but I wanted to make sure the team isn’t stopping there. The team recently released an update that addresses the most frequently reported issues and tunes up performance (think timezone problems and import URL specs…among other things).
They’re also already hard at work on the next batch of features, including the top-rated requests from users via the Yahoo Calendar Suggestion Board. So be sure to weigh in if you want to get your feature on the roadmap.
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November 20th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Thx Ryan….got mine in!
Push-enabled Calendar syncing for iPhone.
November 20th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
agreed… I’d love to be able to sync my iphone calendar with yahoo
November 23rd, 2008 at 10:35 pm
U r so and totally right Matt. my sync does that but when I had my iphone it didn’t do that so basically what I did was just seen the new Blackberry sync and I got and now I can do anything I want on it.
November 25th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
how I can fix security or firewall blocking-
November 20th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
What gives? I can not download/ read/ write after logging into my mail with yahoo on one of my computers.
I get an error message at the bottom saying “unable to load calendar” Try again. My mail seems to freeze up when I log in.
HELP
Water
November 20th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
i have the same problem. i cant make my mail work for me.it keeps saying checking mail. when i try to read something, it keeps saying “message loading”! i am getting very frustrated.HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!!! Derail0529
November 22nd, 2008 at 11:04 am
I’ve been having this exact same problem for a week now.I’m running Firefox 2.0.0.18. Mail used to work fine but now is totally useless. Mail functions OK under another browser but I’d much rather use FF since it has all of my stuff set up.
HAL
November 21st, 2008 at 4:54 am
I’d like to have a reminder set as a default when I add an event using “add event” on the calendar display on my yahoo home page.
November 21st, 2008 at 5:13 am
Blackberry sync
November 21st, 2008 at 7:20 am
Ryan,
Is there an itemized list of changes? I tried the beta, but won’t return until all three conditions are met:
- You can print the calendar
- You can use Yahoo AutoSync
- The Java parameters don’t leak and waste 100% of available RAM
November 21st, 2008 at 5:14 pm
You are doing all of these upgrades except where it’s needed.
My yahoo page is sooo borring that I no longer go on it. Yahoo desk top is also sooo borring that I have gone back to google as my desk top. At least with google I have a selection of what or how I want to decorate my home page. Now I can have choice of what I want for my google mail page to look like. How wonderful that google has kept the baby boomers in mind when they went with enteral decorating.
If you are going to do upgrades,upgrade yahoo desk top and the yahoo mail sites as well.
November 22nd, 2008 at 7:12 am
Why are we limited to only 10 external emails that we can add to our Yahoo accounts? I will have to go back to Gmail as this is a serious and annoying limitation.
Many thanks!
November 22nd, 2008 at 11:11 am
When will there be any meaningful updates?? Yahoo Profile updates….snore. I would actually like something I could use that Yahoo has thought up themselves. If I want to update my profile, I’ll update facebook. If I want to chat, I’ll use AIM. How about we see some IMAP updates so I can finally use Outlook or Evolution on my PC. Or maybe you could add a feature where I can not only add another IMAP account, but send a message in Yahoo Mail that is aliased as that IMAP account. These are things that GMail has already done, and done a while ago. I love Yahoo Mail, but I am starting to see that the focus here is more on glamour and useless features like profiles than actual useful tools. As a business professional, I’d like to see something I can use in the workplace rather than something my 14 yr old will link to their myspace.
November 23rd, 2008 at 11:18 am
To reiterate what craig mentioned here – How about some IMAP? Gmail and AIM offer it for free. C’mon Yahoo! It can’t be that hard.
November 24th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Despite the fact that I’ve asked this question about 100 times and received no answer, I’m going to ask it again as civily as I possibly can. Does Yahoo have any intention of fixing it’s email filters which clearly do not work. A simple Yes of No. I’ve explained the issue to you and provided examples but haven’t even got a reply – is this standard customer service for Yahoo?
November 25th, 2008 at 4:20 am
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November 25th, 2008 at 11:53 am
The iphone issues have not gone away. I am unable to use my upgraded account Yahoo Plus! to get my pop mail to the iphone. No email will come since Oct. 20th. All i ever get from customer service is we are working on it. Please update us on the issue. Thanks!
November 25th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
LUVVVVVVVV THA IDEA OF THA HOLE THING
November 28th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Having been a Yahoo! mail user since 1998 or so, and a Mail Plus subscriber for years as well, I’m reporting that I’m moving over to Gmail because of Yahoo mail’s persistent errors, culminating in the final draw: The deletion of all my saved sent mail prior to Friday 10 Dec 2004.
I rely on my email to legally document my communications with people, and my saved sent mail was a godsend, especially with Yahoo’s unlimited storage. It was that archive, along with my numerous file folders, which was the main reason I suffered through Yahoo’s continual error messages and buggy new, Outlook-style mail interface, while my friends migrated to Gmail in droves.
I was a lone Yahoo mail defender, even as Yahoo mail failed to innovate over the years and fell further and further behind Gmail.
So imagine my complete shock when I went over to my Sent mailbox and discovered that everything before 10 December 2004 was missing.
People may wonder why that’s important. On too many occasions to count, I’ve had to search through archived sent mail to drag up evidence of old conversations in both personal and business situations.
I tried desperately to fix this. Working with live chat got me garbled answers from a poorly-trained “customer service” rep named Gilford. Escalating to engineering got me a reply from rep Ophelia yakking about deleted inbox messages, when my problem was about my saved sent mail. I did confirm that there’s supposedly no storage limit to Yahoo Mail or the sent mail folder specifically. But more email later just led me to a blow-off from Yahoo rep Ralph.
Yahoo, you have screwed me over for the last time. As painful as it may be, I’m moving over to Gmail. Your mail service is way too unreliable.
Beware Yahoo mail!
November 30th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Yeah, well, Gmail isn’t perfect either. None of them are; but Yahoo mail is not the only Yahoo service which tends to get rid of problems instead of fix them. Their sitemaps service for webmasters has that same tendency. If Yahoo doesn’t lose my emails, I could document that claim. Onward, wherever that turns out to be.
December 1st, 2008 at 10:36 am
Right on, Lady! I moved to gmail today because I havent been able to read mail for 5 days, and it’s definitely a Yahoo problem. There’s no way I’m coming back after I get my stuff moved.
November 30th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Further the topic of email, part of my solution was to buy a domain name and use it for my really important email. Another part of my solution was to use Thunderbird instead of OutlookExpress, etc. One reason is that all of my email (in, out, whatever) is stored as text. So if my email program dies (or whatever else happens to it), I can still read all of my existing email by using NotePad or WordPad. Not only that, every time I buy a new computer, it’s very easy to copy all of my existing email to the new hard drive. As for migrating your existing email to Thunderbird, Aid4Mail will do the job, no matter what email program you use now, and at a reasonable cost (about $40, last I looked).
December 1st, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Google is making it very hard to stay with yahoo!! Yahoo has no sync option for wireless smart phones even in the new beta version. And from what I understand, they have no intention to do so. I don’t understand why they are not keeping up with the times? There really is zero need for a standalone web based calendar… period.
December 5th, 2008 at 6:02 am
I second Craig’s comments. I’ve been a Yahoo! user since 1998 and a Plus subscriber since it was available. I’ve sent numerous requests about features like IMAP and smart-phone sync-ing. They had a SyncML product that worked pretty well until they decided to kill it in favor of Y! Go, an eye-candy something or other. If they had a few truly useful things, all this other stuff wouldn’t matter. As much as I want to use Yahoo, Google seems to pay closer attention to stuff folks actually need and use.
December 6th, 2008 at 5:22 am
salam
December 7th, 2008 at 8:49 am
need to print all contact list as I used to.
December 16th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
I too can not download/ read/ write after logging into my mail with yahoo on one of my computers, my other one works fine….what’s up?
January 12th, 2009 at 8:29 am
I really wait for each yahoo new products. And always they have really outdated info. And no reply in forum. Never accept feature mentioned id not available….
Yahoo! Calendar Beta (CalDav support) Hhaha…Doesn’t work at all. And about wrong information….
http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/calendar/yahoocalendar/sync/sync-05.html
Does not work at all. And no reply from yahoos…and support told me its not available for Intellisync :) Wow..thats funny…Where intellisync comes in picture for Lightenning and yahoo CalDav ?
Please if it does not work tell it public…i wasted lot of of time in just searching for this. As i have already switched to new one and added lots of stuff.
January 15th, 2009 at 4:56 am
please help my in my email