Screencast: Ways to get to Yahoo! Mail
- Posted November 13th, 2008 at 5:08 pm by Ryan
- Categories: All-New Mail, Anti-Spam, Classic Mail, General, Mac, Screencasts, Security, Tips & Tutorials
Despite my earlier efforts to share these visionary suggestions with screenshots, it seems that people continue to rely heavily on search engines to get to their Yahoo! Mail account. Now if you simply like that process, more power to you. But if you would like something with fewer steps, do I have the video for you. Please excuse the stuffiness of the voice over. Not only was my voice born for print media, I was fighting off some seasonal allergies.
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November 13th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
I just type “mail.yahoo.com”, never had a problem.
Now, if only Yahoo could make Push e-mail work more consistantly… ;-)
November 21st, 2008 at 7:44 am
gh
November 13th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
HUH? People really have trouble finding their mail? Your mail account is on the front page of Yahoo where its always been. Am I missing something?
November 13th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Im having trouble getting to my mail, just to read it. what’s up with that?
November 13th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
I have had the New paid subscription of YaHoo’s New Mail. Personally I’m not @ all happy with it. If I had tried it on a Trail Offer first, I would not have Purchased it. To put it Simple, It’s to Cluttered !
November 13th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
William,
You can try hiding the Reading Pane to see less items in your screen, it will make the New Y! Mail to look almost like the Classic Mail. When the Reading Pane is hidden, you can open your messages by double clicking on the messages or just clicking on the subjects.
To toggle the Reading Pane you have to options:
quick option: use the keyboard shortcut ‘v’
normal option: go to the view menu on the top of your inbox, click on it and you will see the option “Reading Pane”.
good luck..
November 14th, 2008 at 9:32 am
Do they not allow you to cancel it if you are dissatisfied ? A reliable Company would stand behind their product!
November 14th, 2008 at 9:38 am
William,
If you contact Customer Care they will cancel your upgrade and refund you.
-Ryah
November 20th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
What’s not to be happy about? I’ve had Plus for a while now and it works great. My only gripe is that Push only works %50 of the time on my iPhone, but that’s not a Plus-only issue but an overall one.
However, considering I have/use Hotmail (Spam), Gmail (University), and of course Yahoo (Primary/Personal), there’s a world of difference between all of them. For instance, I still use Y!Mail exclusively as my primary account because it has unlimited space, Push for iPhone, and a gorgeous (Zimbra-ish) interface compared to Gmail or Hotmail. My university uses Google Apps, so everybody has a campus Gmail account; it works well and I like the IMAP support, but no Push or folders. I know Gmail uses tags, but I prefer folders instead.
Hotmail is just abysmal, but b/c I have an Xbox Live account it’s part of the territory. Hotmail only gives you 5GB, and only allows push if you have a Windows Mobile device. If you can figure how to upgrade a Hotmail account to Hotmail Plus, please let me know…I’ve yet to find a way to do it unless you activate it as a Plus account. They just turned on POP access for Hotmail accounts, but you can use their stupid Outlook Connector to access Hotmail if you have/use Outlook 2007. I only use the account for mailing lists and other crap…
All in all, I’ve yet to really find anything lacking in Yahoo except IMAP support; however, considering the account is truly Unlimited, I don’t want to sync EVERY single folder/piece of e-mail in my box with my desktop….in my case, that could take a while.
Anyway, sorry for the novel but I get sick of people saying, “Oh I hate Yahoo” without a “because” after it. I don’t hate any company, but I certainly do like some more than others… Perhaps something like, “Oh I hate Yahoo because they use that silly mascot.” Ok, I get that…at least it’s an opinion with a reason attached to it.
November 22nd, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Yeah, I use to pay for premium too… Came time to renew and Yahoo’s account services were messed up once again and so membership lapsed. Found that GMail offers everything Yahoo Premium does, plus it’ll allow me to use my own domain name, for free. Unless Google goes to the dogs I’ll never consider paying for Yahoo again.
November 23rd, 2008 at 10:16 am
Gmail and Y!Mail are not exactly the same; Gmail offers no Push for iPhone or Blackberry, and it’s not unlimited storage.
My biggest concern with Google is that Gmail will aggregate the content of your e-mail for marketing links–they don’t have humans reading it, but humans designed it, and humans can abuse it.
November 13th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Thanks Ryan – Iiked the desktop shortcut trick! I am never at a loss for access to my mail because I have the mail icon on Yahoo toolbar – if my browser is closed, I use Messenger to go directly to mail.
November 14th, 2008 at 3:36 am
Awesome ways ! Thanks Ryan
November 14th, 2008 at 5:23 am
I despise toolbars..
November 14th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Me too man! That’s why I use Google Chrome. Nothing but a minimal, fast, functional interface with intuitive features.
How about just keying ymail.com? W/ Chrome, I don’t even have to key in the whole thing, the browser autocompletes for me.
November 14th, 2008 at 5:40 am
It boggles the mind – maybe too many brains scrambled by too many walkmans and that never learned how to THINK …. they use a SEARCH engine to find their mail (!?) but if they have a question about anything that they SHOULD use a search engine for, they post a question either to a group or to Y-answers – “Has anyone ever heard of [name]?” I shake my head in disbelief wondering how they manage anything else.
November 14th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Agreed.
November 14th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
You’d be surprised how many people do this. I’ve worked in tech support and customer facing positions in the past, and the majority of “non-techie” people type URLs in search engines.
November 15th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
I know it sounds crazy to some of you, but everyone familiarized themselves with the web in their own unique way.
For every person who knows they can have a browser auto complete an address after only typing the domain, there are a ton of folks who find everything from a search.
If I’m already on my keyboard I usually type “YMail.com” and hit enter. If I have a hand on mouse I will usually right-click the bookmark in my browser toolbar. Why a new tab, you ask? Because I’m always worried I might want to come back ;)
-Ryan
November 18th, 2008 at 5:21 am
Ryan–came across this by accident, but I don’t understand–it looks like you’re still going through two or three steps–I used to be able to access my yahoo mail just by clicking on mail on my yahoo home page–then without explanation it suddenly changed and it now looks like that page you showed where I have to sign in and give my password every time I want to look at mail–what a pain! Also, the one time I used yahoo mail stationery (around Halloween) all my friends complained that my e-mails were in Greek language! What happened there?
November 20th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Gail,
The demo outlines the steps to setup shortcuts that will typically get you to Yahoo! Mail in a single click/step.
If you have recently signed in to MyY you shouldn’t be asked to enter the password again when you bounce over to Mail. I’ll check into it.
-Ryan
December 18th, 2008 at 6:05 am
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November 14th, 2008 at 7:39 am
How about Yahoo! Toolbar? Did you forget it?
Or did you not include it because it doesn’t work very well? I used to like and use all Yahoo! services, but some of them (toolbar, briefcase and notebook for example) should be urgently improved!!!
November 14th, 2008 at 9:00 am
Yeah, whatever happened to Briefcase? It’s looking more and more like Abandonware.
November 14th, 2008 at 8:26 am
You can also bookmark Yahoo! Mail in your favorites list. That requires an extra mouse step when getting to your mail but it’s also quicker than searching or typing in yahoo.com in the address box.
I took the toolbar idea a little further and made a toolbar button that takes me directly to my inbox rather than my Yahoo! Mail page. You can do the same thing in your bookmarks/favorites list. It eliminates an extra step if you prefer to go straight to your inbox first.
I would gently scold you because your sign-in seal is absent but maybe you took it off before you created the video so no one would know what yours is. :)
Thanks for the video.
November 14th, 2008 at 8:48 am
Ryan,
Seems like a lot of people still type in mail.yahoo.com…let them know
ymail.com works too!
November 14th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Well, there are 3 of us who uses 1 computer and only I can get into my mail and whatever else I want to get into. The deal is everytime my other 2 Family members try to go to their emails it kicks them right back to my email sign up, even AFTER I have signed out. I am the primary user of this computer and just a while ago, my sister and my dad tried to go to their emails and could not get to them and also for some reason, my sisters email is in my account as a alternate email address. Is it assumed that just because 3 different emails are on 1 computer they ALL belong to the same person? My dad and sister uses the same password on their accounts, I don’t. Before we had no problem just going where ever we wanted to go on our Computer and now we do, my dad can’t even get to his to see if my Uncle who IS IN IRAQ has sent him any emails because of this and yes I have contacted costomer service and all they did was seed us to the links that do not answer our questions. Sorry to sound grumpy about this, but we are a bit agitated about this and I do not have my PC set up as 3 different section as sing in on my computer cause we don’t want to deal with that. We just want to just turn on the PC and log on simple as that, but it isn’t simple as that anymore, so, what to do on this kind of issue?
November 14th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
THIS should be alot of fun with my baby candy
November 14th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Never had a problem accessing my mail. Out of habit, I type in mail.yahoo.com. Also, simply typing in http://www.ymail.com works. :-)
November 15th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Im unable to view the left hand context menu in my address book, which gives options for viewing catagorys.
Ive already emailed yahoo email help about my problem and the answer Im sent is always the same; “make my font size smaller or change the resolution of my monitor.
However, I cant do this because of my poor vision.
There isnt a slider at the bottom of the address book page, where I could slide it to the left to see the whole page. I wish there was one so I could view the left hand menu and get to my catagorys that I need to edit!!!!
Is there any way to view address book and edit it?
Please help!
Bluesrains
Please forward this email to the guy in charge of yahoo address book problems or email.
Thanks,
Bluesrains
November 16th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Speaking for myself,I’m a beginner,and all the talk is a bloggle to the simple dork like me just trying to understand the simplest terms.How are we to determine which is better…..excuse ME!!!!
November 16th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
That Ryan guy is pretty hot
November 17th, 2008 at 8:07 am
Sean, Andrea and Liz, I share your main. I have not been able to get into my account from my PC since November 13th; yet I can see what mail is there using the Y toolbar and I can access the mailbox via my cell phone, which is not at all convenient for me. Help anyone? And yes, rebooted, tried system restore, etc.. NOTHING helped.
November 17th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
This questions is directed to Ryan Knight or anyone who is very savvy with the internet process.
I have a question and am not sure if this is the place to address it. I have a Yahoo email account in which I have a list of contacts having various email accounts – such as sbcglobal, gmail, aol etc. When I logon onto my Yahoo account I see under “Online” from time to time one or two of my contacts. How does this work? Are they really online?
Does this mean they are online anywhere?
I am curious as I have a friend who claims she is not online when I see her name pop up under “All Feeds” – “Online.” If I try sending an email I receive a bounce back. What am I missing here? Thanks.
November 17th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
hey i didnt get 2 see it but awsome
November 17th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
I have the paid subscription to the Upgraded Yahoo Mail. My email on the iphone will no longer push to update any pop accounts. I can manually update on a PC then the email will come to the cell, but the cell won’t push. I have contacted AT&T and my setttings are all correct. Maybe on your end? Help!!!!
November 17th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Hear the news? Google added voice and video chat into Gmail. Perhaps could we get that in Y!Mail as well? plz
…or at least a Y!Msgr version w/ video chat for Vista. Throw me a bone :)
November 17th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
I have been a long time advovate of YAHOO for email and for search but thinigs are falling apart. One day I can;t get my email to even send, then one day I have trouble wthn my laptop keyboard only with yahoo porgrams, then I am now not able to move from the in box to the designated box especially if one has to scroll to get to the folder.My pointer flutters, and noting is stable. I am loosing eamils that were stored, and I cannot find some emails stored by catagory. MY EMAIL IS MESSED UP, and if it is not changed I will remove it from my machine and it will be a long, long, long time if ever that I will come back to Yahoo. I am responsible for many chooseing Yahoo and I can lead many away from yahoo. JUST GET OFF YOUR DUFF AND HELP ME. Let;s save a great company.
November 18th, 2008 at 8:43 am
Is there a way to check for new Yahoo email messages via RSS?
My internet connection at work is slow, so text-only is my preferred way to browse.
November 18th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Can’t access my emai on a PC but only on my phone.I can acess yahoo on the internet but do not know how to acess email.
November 18th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
This video is very help ful. But i think more ways to find yahoo mail can still be found. What i do at my personal computer is i sign into my massanger which pops up after i signed in then a pop up pops up and i click on mail and WELL AHHH i am at my mail site.
November 18th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Wish we could have a larger size fonts. My complaint!
What I really want to know is can I have a second e-mail account and how do I get it?
November 19th, 2008 at 5:01 am
Can I go back to my old compose view? I hate the new one.
Why, btw as long as you’re “fixing” things (ha!) do we have to click through 3 screens to open an attachment and why can’t you have auto-delete of your inbox and sent messages? Say, delete anything older than 6 months automatically?
Dianne
November 19th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
(Possible duplicate entry. Received error last time.)
You missed settting Y! Mail as the default email application. This allows the user to use any existing links, icons or keyboard “hot buttons” to access Y! Mail.
Also setting Y! Mail as one of the home page tabs. I add Y! Mail as one of the pages that load when I open my browser, and it just stays in the background. Since the “Unread Count” appears in the tab title, all I have to do is glance up at that tab to see if I have any new email.
November 19th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
hey ryan do not get me wrong.
you show us here how to find the login page, an in the same time google starts one rocket after another, i read now at techcrunch, that gmail introduces themes,,,,over 30 ,,,,,,,not only colors , but real themes for gmail….that is innovative……will be any response from yahoo?
November 20th, 2008 at 2:07 am
Great website, the information is good, and the content will keep me coming back, thanks again.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:13 pm
I’d love to see more themes throughout yahoo mail, notepad, calendar and my yahoo. Have you seen the new facelift that google mail and hotmail now have? They have themes. I like hotmail’s blossom theme the best. Nice eye candy. I’m bored with yahoo mail’s limited colors. Thanks, and keep up the good work.
November 21st, 2008 at 6:17 pm
I can’t access my mail at all!! Is there something wrong with yahoo mail today?? It totally disappeared!!
November 21st, 2008 at 8:34 pm
I have not been able to access any of my yahoo mail for days. I sign in, I can see I have new mail but when I click to open any mail nothing happens – the windows flag just spins and spins. I sent off a help message today (using my other e-mail account) and was totally frustrated when I did not get an answer but was directed to this site to look for my own answer. Well from what I see I’m not the only one with the problem and I don’t see an answer. I would have felt better if I was told ‘thanks for letting us know about the problem and we are workign on it’. vs. having to look through these posting myself to see that there is yet to be a solution. I hope this gets fixed fast.
November 22nd, 2008 at 2:40 pm
I couldnt get the videocast to stream smoothly. To accomodate my lower bandwidth, I usually let videos play through once (while I’m away from the screen) and then replay it again when I’m back. But this method doesn’t work here. Any suggestions? Thanks.
November 22nd, 2008 at 10:36 pm
I can’t get my computer to get to the yahoo site. It started yesterday and I have not been able to access the site. I am using a mac ox 10.4 with safari 3.2. As yahoo changed sometime? I get a message safari can’t open the site.
November 23rd, 2008 at 11:21 pm
What is up with accessing yahoo email? It has been impossible for days now, yet the folks at yahoo are offering neither solutions nor hopes for solutions! I can see i have some urgent mail but i can’t read, can someone come to my rescue here?
November 24th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
I just use a bookmark to get to Yahoo mail. Lots faster than going to Yahoo.com and clicking on Mail. Of course, if I’m using Yahoo, I’ll click the Mail link.
–Mike On the Way to the Web
November 25th, 2008 at 9:07 am
just not use yahoo.com
but ymail.com
then you can login immediately , this way it is one click less.
hey what abouts themes now“? gmail has got real good themes like ninja etc.
please do something too,your 5-6 colors are too less.
do something please
November 25th, 2008 at 9:13 am
I totally lost access to Yahoo! Mail November 24th in the afternoon. I can’t even get http://www.yahoo.ca or http://www.yahoo.com up either. I’ve made sure my Zonealarm is not interfering. I need to get to my mail!!
Service has largely deteriorated over the last few months. Pretty disappointing situation for long-term users. I’m sure if the Microsoft acquisition would have occurred, we would all be rolled over to the MS Network. Not a bad idea now because at least I could then ACCESS MY MAIL!!
November 26th, 2008 at 4:20 am
i have problem of sending messages to friends when i send it came back to my inboks.
i want to what course that.
November 26th, 2008 at 5:46 am
I’ve been a long time user of Yahoo mail (10 years if not more) and have always been able to access my mail through OE or, my personal preference, Incredimail. Now, that may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but it’s mine and a lot of friends’ choice too. Why is it, that for the past couple of weeks or more, we keep getting emails coming through in some weird format etc? Despite being in ‘constant’ contact with people at Yahoo, nothing is getting resolved and because I’ve lost out on receiving several very important messages, I had no choice but to cancel my Mail Plus service, until this gets sorted.
November 27th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Why am I suddenly getting garbage emails using my own personal email address? When I look at my incoming mail and it shows I have mail from (don@dlindberg.com) it’s disturbing and usually something I would subscribe too.
Don
November 29th, 2008 at 12:49 am
mr.yahoo ! actually a minus like me couldnt get over thee mail can’t load quote! please your help be much appreciated !
November 29th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
I haven’t been able to open any of my email for more than 36 hours now. It’s the only problem I’m haveing, but my mail is stacking up. The simplicity of your webpage is why I’ve been using it as my home page. It looks like I’m not the only one. Please, some help would be greatly appreciated.
November 29th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Is there any way to enlarge the pane or screen where the e-mail message is read? You can get rid of the ad on the right hand side but that does not enlarge the pane. Seems it was larger a year or so ago.
Any advice?
November 30th, 2008 at 12:45 am
Haven’t been able to open my mail inbox adequatly for about 3 days. I tried about 50 times today and was able to open my mail about 3 times. Accessing yahoo page is fine, I can sign in, but it’s very difficult to get the inbox page to open! I’ve searched the web and many others are having the same problem….any suggestions? Opening any other internet site is fine. I had to create a gmail account just to get my buisness done today!
November 30th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
like Katie, I have not been able to consistantly open my mail inbox for several days. What gives here? Is it time to move to gmail? Does anyone have an answer as to what is happening with Yahoo Mail?
November 30th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Has anybody gotten an answer about what’s up with Yahoo mail? It’s making me want to start using a different one. This is pretty ridiculous. You’d think Yahoo would at least put some kind of an announcement on their web page about it.
December 1st, 2008 at 6:22 am
I am able to get to my mail bow but I now Have over 706E-mails how do I get all of them off my mail box???Can anyone help??
December 1st, 2008 at 6:29 am
Firstly,,,(LOL)why do you have that many emails for ,,,Thast crazy!!!
If you want to get rid of all your 706 email heres what you do,
go to your emails. Once in your emails ,,,click on the box just above the emails. This box will help you delete all of your emails in your in box.
There you go!!! ,,,
Good luck!!
December 1st, 2008 at 6:24 am
ok here’s the simple way of getting to you Yahoo Email.
Why dont you just use yahoo messenger, Leave it on and anytime you get an email, an envelope will appear down below. Click on it to yahoo home page nad then click your email. Simple !!
December 18th, 2008 at 6:04 am
u bad boy
December 1st, 2008 at 1:41 pm
LARGER SIZE
December 1st, 2008 at 1:42 pm
LARGER SIZE, EASY READ
December 1st, 2008 at 1:44 pm
i like larger size in any place
December 4th, 2008 at 7:37 am
When I want to forward a received email — and its attachments, I lose the attachments. What is the solution to this time consuming problem?
December 4th, 2008 at 9:06 am
I am unable to find a way to set my email messages to notify me when the recipient has read their mail. What happened to this option?
December 5th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Here we go again…I can’t get into my email again! The changes that Yahoo has been making are causing more problems than fixing them. I’ve been a loyal user of Yahoo for over 10 years and I would hate to have to change because they keep breaking things. Come on Yahoo…you can do better!
December 6th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
hello this agung for mother . my not ableto return fast , couse,in my school there is task from teacher? thank you
December 9th, 2008 at 4:48 am
everytime I go to mail I get this 3-4 page of advertisements, takes too long to download the messages. Don’t know how it got to this point, but I am getting frustrated at trying to get back my original mail. I don’t believe I downloaded Beta, but would like my original page for mail account back. I have tried everything that was told for me to do. Don’t know what I am doing wrong. Please help me figure this out. Thank you
December 16th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
I have been using Yahoo Mail Beta for a while now and love it. However, lately I’ve had a problem with my font (which is set to Verdana 10 pt) defaulting back to 8 pt. And when I change all of the text in the email message back to 10 pt and send the email arrives at 14 pt.
This all seemed to start (or it may be coincidental) when I added a hyperlink (to my linkedin page) in my signature.
I’ve since removed the link but still have the same issue.
HELP or I’m going to have to give up on Beta.
December 17th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
what have you guys done to yahoo mail ??? why do we have to sign every single time.lets get it back to the old set up
December 18th, 2008 at 6:02 am
nice yar