Give friends and family VIP treatment in your Inbox
- Posted December 17th, 2008 at 3:42 pm by Rick
- Categories: All-New Mail, Classic Mail, General, New Stuff
If I could earn a nickel for how many times I’ve heard people say “I get WAY too much email!” I could retire soon. :) I’ve seen studies that show that users get 30 emails a day on average. That’s a lot of email to go through each day!
Let’s face it – messages from some people are more important than those from others. We would all rather read an email from our best friend than view a “special offer” from a Web site we bought something on years ago. New features coming to both our Classic and New versions of Yahoo ! Mail will make it easier to give important people VIP treatment in your inbox.
Of course, not everyone can be a VIP, so you have to invite people to become a connection (what we call VIPs). To do this, you send them an invitation to connect (they don’t even have to be using Yahoo ! Mail) and once they accept, new features are unlocked that only connections get. For starters, we make it super simple to see messages from connections right when you sign in on the Welcome Page and right in your inbox.
We also help you see what they are up to on other Web sites, like Yahoo ! TV, Travel and Music. For example, when they review the latest episode of “House,” review their favorite beach in Kauai , or rate the newest song from U2, you get automatically updated. We are calling this next generation of Yahoo ! Mail the “smarter inbox.” This video that shows the new stuff in action:
Connections will get even more VIP treatment in your inbox in the coming months. For example, we will allow you to share enormous files over email with your connections, and we’ll remind you when their birthdays are coming up. Those are just a few things… more on those features later. Connections will also get benefits across all Yahoo!, not just in Yahoo ! Mail.
These features in Yahoo ! Mail are now rolling out to users in Australia and some in the US – but coming everywhere soon. Users with Yahoo! profile will get access first, so create a profile at profile.yahoo.com to get to the head of the line!
Rick Pal
Yahoo! Mail Product Guy
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December 17th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
My real VIP folks will call me on the telephone or they will use USPS to contact me. I didn’t even need the connections thing in the 1st place and Yehus at Yahoo have messed up my Yahoo! Mail Plus program which I pay for again. They still cannot get things right.
I thought they had corrected the problem with my email service and then they had to go an add the “connections” thing. Most of the email addresses in my Address book don’t belong to individuals.
You might think that your are helping me give other the VIP treatment; I fell like I am an NIP, not important person, with these Beta email page programs. I read in another discussion that those who were getting the Beta program had personally requested to try it out. I never did any such thing!.
January 1st, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Joe Allen, Oh so right you are !
” Ya’h Give friends the treatment alright ! ” It’s so lame and anal and as you pointed out what about the people that realize they’re not a VIP ?
The whole thing is so stupid and even if it did work it would be lame.
Nobody want’s it or likes this so called new yahoo and it’s obvious it’s a broken extremely flawed system that they can’t fix anyways as by the amount of time ( over a month) they have been trying and the fact that it’s getting bigger and more broken by the hour. Surely somebody at yahoo must be aware of how big a failure and disater this whole thing is.
It’s a tragic day in the life of yahoo and sad that so many of us after so many years are leaving for a new mailbox at other sites. I have mine !
Unfortunatly it’s taking time to switch as my yahoo mail is moving at a snails pace if at all but when I’ve got everything I want to take with me it’s goodbye yahoo ! I’ve had enough, ya’h know ? Moving day is upon us folks ! Never thought I’d see it happen with yahoo who I was so happy with for so long………..Tradgic ! really tradgic………….
January 1st, 2009 at 3:38 pm
I don’t like all of this connection stuff popping up at me, my profile, real name and information available to anyone unless I uncheck boxes. This whole thing should be on a choice basis. I choose to connect with the people I choose in the way I choose when I choose without some computer app making “helpful” suggestions. Worse, I didn’t even know all my info was available to everyone unless I navigated several screens and unchecked several boxes. How long has it been like this????
January 21st, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Your right rocky, i guess i can alway’s go back to buckeye mail. They don’t get creative with my mail, they just do thier job.
December 17th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
I”m sorry Ryan but the video is confusing. As i stated in the Mail group, when my contacts receive an invitation they DO NEED to sign in their supposedely Yahoo! Mail account even if the invite was sent to their other address…
Also they should not have to accept it in the first place. i’m taking again the example of my boss. His message are quite important to me but i certainly will not ask him to “connect on Yahoo!” . i should be able to choose what contact are important to me without having them accepting it. This is extremely important i you want this product to be widely used and “open’. Cut out the invite model. Follow the Twitter concept.
i understand they have to accept because later on i’ll be able to follow their social activity but then, let me simply connect my Facebook/LinkedIn account to yahoo! and synchronize my contacts
Finally, none of my connections actuelly appear on the front page even though “some” of them do appear in the filtered list….
December 17th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
FYI…..everyone that has tried to accept my invites gets the following ERROR when clicking the accept link
Problem occured in getting the invite information.
It’s not working.
December 17th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Sorry, this thing is lame. All it does is send them an invite to sign up a Yahoo mail account.
December 19th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
you have to sign up to all web sites #1st
December 17th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
I forgot to mention… if Yahoo wants to do a Gmail-like invite-to-join system, just put a small box on the bottom of the screen where you can sent Yahoo Mail invites; this VIP thing isn’t really useful or effective.
December 17th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
The ‘connections’ thing is marginally helpful. Why not just allow for 2 prioities for incoming and outgoing emails: NORMAL and PRIORITY. Then we have more options.
Also the Welcome TAB is OK but please restore the NEWS TAB with the TOP-WORLD-ENT-SPORTS-LOCAL buttons.
I miss them way more than any connections!
December 18th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
I completely agree about the tabbed news box rather than the inconvenient drop down.
December 17th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
This is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen any viable company come up with. Yahoo has truly “jumped the shark” with this idea. I opened a GMail account today. I suspect I’ll spend a few weeks moving all of my 3rd party accounts over to my new address. (sigh). Thanks for pushing this paying customer so far as to move to a free service.
December 18th, 2008 at 7:24 am
you can opt out. Click the options link in mail, and select mail options. Then in the left pane choose General category and uncheck the box marked “Enable Connection-related features (Messages, Suggestions, Updates)”
December 18th, 2008 at 9:51 am
THANK YOU Steve! This garbage was making the page not load in Firefox 3 on my Mac. I had to reload like 12 times to get the page. With the “enhancements” turned off, back to instant loading.
December 18th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Thank you Steve for your clear instructions on opting out of those connections buttons! I tried it and they are gone – at least for now! One less/distraction/aggravation.
December 19th, 2008 at 8:25 am
SO glad someone figured out how to opt out of this garbage.You can just see the engineers and product managers at Yahoo: “The kids seem to like this Facebook thing. How can we turn our entirely unrelated application into something more like that and avoid bankruptcy?”
December 21st, 2008 at 10:24 am
Steve: Thanks for the information.. I’ve spent way too much stewing about this subject. Most of my contacts are VIP to me & I don’t need this Connections crap on my screen. I appreciate your knowledge.
January 11th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
dont worry bout it judy itll be alright one love
January 28th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
Sis. everything will be allright don’t bother yourself so much
January 30th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Really it wll be ok cos no pain no gain.
December 25th, 2008 at 9:39 am
Bless you Steve a thousand times Bless you… I could not figure out how to turn it off …
thank you much
Joan
December 28th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Thank you Steve.
January 2nd, 2009 at 7:16 pm
thank you Steve! you are a god! i was so aggravated when that whole connections business was showing up on my page. i searched everywhere to find out how to get rid of it ….. and then i found you. i bow at your feet. ;)
January 5th, 2009 at 9:35 am
Thanks Steve! Done and done! Much better, all back to normal!
February 4th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Thanks I’m happy again
February 5th, 2009 at 9:54 am
Steve,
Thank You….I’ve been all over Yahoo trying to figure out how to eliminate this feature. It was right there where you indicated to delete it. I am a Very Private individual as many others are and this should be posted on the Yahoo Help section so others who do NOT want this feature enabled, can get a CORRECT ANSWER!!!! Once again, Thank You!!
December 17th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Why is it that YMail manages to be a bad implementation of everything that GMail does well?
Gmail doesn’t have a VIP program. Heck, they don’t even have a “Plus” tier like Yahoo does…. They don’t waste their time on it. Instead, everyone in their userbase is treated equally, gets equal access to substantial features for free, and their email just works…
You want IMAP? It works.
You want built-in video chat? It works.
You want built-in text chat? It works.
Why is this so difficult for Yahoo to do? I can’t figure that out… but Yahoo better figure it out before things reach the tipping point.
December 17th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
In response to what Ellis said:
Yahoo is slowing turning into the MySpace of email…
“It’s not a bug, it’s a feature!”
December 18th, 2008 at 10:40 am
a feature with a bug a buggy feature
December 17th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
I have been unable to access my mail since I opened this page to find out what this new application was all about. I am not happy!!!
December 18th, 2008 at 2:24 am
I haven’t been able to access my yahoo mail at all for the past 2-3 days, much less any ‘new features’. What’s the point of this anyways? You can always set up filters to redirect messages from certain people to their own folder so you know every time you get a message from said person.
Yahoo’s broken, I might have to start giving out my Gmail account instead. Only reason I still use Yahoo is that I’ve had it longer and so most of my friends have it; and I’d rather not go to the trouble of changing it on websites and telling friends to send to my Gmail account.
January 11th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
just give it some time justin itll work out much love yo boy big o
December 18th, 2008 at 3:52 am
Please get the “connect to people” thing OUT OF MY FACE. I am not interested in your social network and don’t want to look that this huge thing every time I check my mail. It doesn’t even have a close box. Are you hoping people accidentally click on it?
December 24th, 2008 at 7:41 am
Me, too. I want it gone. Everytime I click to remove the 10 suggestions, I get 10 more. It keeps telling me I email these address often. some are contacts of contacts who only showed up because people leave their other friends addresses showing when they email me. I never remail 90% of the ones Yahoo says I email often. WHERE is the CLOSE or DELETE this module button?
Getting fed up with this “being in my face” every day. make it go away.
toklatkate
January 9th, 2009 at 8:52 am
I concur w/Kathryn! I found somewhere to stop these “suggestions”. Now I’ve lost every legimate contact in my address book. I’m screwed!
Every suggested person was anyone tagged on to a C: or C.C. of any email I still had in my mailbox.
This whole thing is for kids and it sux.
December 18th, 2008 at 7:14 am
I read the Connections section on help pages and one question explains how you can take off connection feature with an option in mail Options.
There is an option under General to disable “Connections” feature. After you do that it takes you back to the old “home” one.
December 19th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
I tried deselecting Connections under the general tab. The box stays deselected but when I back into Yahoo mail, there it is again. I hate it so much and want it GONE.
January 5th, 2009 at 9:39 am
@Susan–Try clearing your browsers cache maybe? It stayed gone for me, maybe a cookie or other automated thingee keeps it coming back for you?
January 6th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
Agreed, “connections” is an absurd waste and should have never been implemented. Laura’s advice about “options-mail-general” worked. I did check this when the offensive “connection” trash started but don’t remember seeing that option. I unchecked it and it seems to remain that way. Why do software vendors always seem to think they “know” what the public wants. From the volume of negative responses to this “connections” feature (?), this was a very poor decision. At least they could have turned it OFF by default instead of ON!
December 18th, 2008 at 7:19 am
How do I cancel the connections thing. It is annoying and I don’t want it!
December 18th, 2008 at 8:30 am
I don’t care for this feature … I care much more about making Yahoo Mail STABLE. Today, for the umpteenth time, I’m getting error messages and/or blank pages when I try to check my mail. Very frustrating when I’m paying for this service!
December 18th, 2008 at 8:36 am
Make it easy will ya!. Just let people pick who can send Email to them when they recieve it. put it in a recieve list. All the rest is junk and and never gets to my inbox.
December 18th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Euh… nice but when will Yahoo support IMAP? And when can I sync my Yahoo! Calendar OTA with my iPhone? I think these kind of things are what (paying) customers are actually waiting for.
December 18th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Wow! Another un-asked for Yahoo! Mail feature, while things that used to work (such as forwarding full headers and duplicate displays of contacts) are unfixed. NOT ONLY THAT, but THIS feature is another one that Yahoo! didn’t bother testing before unwrapping! I liked how the “send invites” dialog box doesn’t have a close button…Just another notch in the (ever eroding) quality of Yahoo! software.
December 18th, 2008 at 9:35 am
Oh, and Ryans comment about “30 emails a day” being a lot. I get over 100 email a day. About half are SPAM that Yahoo! Mail allows through the spam filters! How many “Replica Watch” emails have to be marked SPAM before the filter sees it as SPAM? How many “Viagra” emails have to be marked as SPAM before the filter sees it as SPAM?
Maybe THAT should be fixed before you add stupid features that no one asks for and that don’t work!
(PS: Don’t bother posting the boiler-plate about how difficult it is to identify SPAM. We all know that Gmail does a better job of blocking these messages, so we don’t need your excuses!)
December 18th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Wow, this was horrible!
My mail pages wouldn’t even load. I had to refresh about 12 times (Firefox 3 on a Mac) to get the main mail page to come up. I turned it off and now my pages load again.
To turn this garbage off: Reload page 10 or 12 times so you get your main mail page. Go to Mail Options (upper right), go to settings, and uncheck “connections.” Your mailbox is back to normal!
December 18th, 2008 at 10:38 am
ok I am pissed since I added my vip’s this morning on two yahoo accounts I now cannot access my email. this is another yahoo blunder geeeeee sounds like I need to switch to gmail.
December 18th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Just what I need, friends and family seeing what websites I visit.
December 18th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
I really do not understand this, I like the idea to see the most important email in a separate window or front-page, but why I have to invite them? can’t I just click an option like “priority contact?” and that’s it?
I am not inviting anyone to anyplace, I just want that option without “bothering or asking” IT IS MY INBOX! WHY DO I NEED MY MOM’s (or anyone) APPROVAL TO RE-ARRANGE THEIR MESSAGES IN MY INBOX?
December 18th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
I agree! I don’t understand why connections are necessary. I like the duality of the inbox now with the ALL/Connections buttons, however, why can’t it be “ALL / Contacts” I have an address book because that’s who I e-mail often, and thats who e-mails me often. So why not allow me to sort mail from ALL e-mails, and just those from people in my contacts list? I don’t like connections at all.
December 18th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
I am going to be honest, and I might be one of the latest YAHOO FANS out there, the most I think about this the most disappointed I get, I tried sending an invitation to another of my accounts (not a yahoo one) and when I clicked the ACCEPT INVITATION button I was redirected to the yahoo login page, It is like cheap marketing, again, if it is my inbox, why I can not decide my priorities? how can I have my spouse emails in the front page without inviting her?
December 18th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Yahoo can say that it has IMAP… as long as you use the Zimbra client… Have you ever heard of something so ridiculous? It would be like Google stating that it offers IMAP access for GMail, as long as you only use its Chrome browser to get it.
But wait… it’s free to do this!
And don’t forget: to get POP mail without resorting to a forced-client, you can pay for it too and become a Plus member!
Wonderful…
December 18th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
I seriously agree with all other “boo”ers out there. Yahoo! adds a feature in which you have to INVITE the contact to REARRANGE your mail! Why can’t I just click the contact WITHOUT inviting them to rearrange their mail? It’s stupid that they have to accept your invitation before you do anything; do they care if you move their mail? Probably not. It’s YOUR inbox, not theirs, so why do you have to invite?
Basically, stupid feature. Fix a glitch before you launch useless junk like this. I have a Microsoft Outlook email address that I’m using and a Google account that I might switch to…
December 18th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
I AM NOT AT ALL PLEASED WITH THE “ALL NEW” YAHOO MAIL! the address book is a pain in the behind! time consuming to go thru all the duplicates and triplicates ….. Yahoo has not yet fixed the problem of all the EXTRA spam in get in my INBOX that continues to sneak thru the spam or junk filter.. I paid for one year of “the Plus” features that did nothing to get rid of the excess spam. WHEN I BLOCK AN EMAIL – WANT IT BLOCKED! I GET AN AVERAGE OF 1/3 OF MY EMAIL IS JUNK OR SPAM! and as far as the downloading to your computer feature…. heck if I want to down load my email I can just forward it to another program that does it for free!
Why not put your efforts together to create a data base or filtering system, for the select words that these spammers use so that any emails that use these certain words or all caps in subject or the MR or MRS of so and so united kingdom or offering enhancement products get booted out and put in the junk box. Then too boot ….. If I email some one using the yahoo email address I have had now for going on 8 years…. they never get it….. cause IT gets identified as junk email and ends up in their email box….. Yahoo, I just do not think you are getting it! Expecting us to pay for something that is offered for free from other providers. The bete takes forever to load if you have to use a different computer …… such as at a library or at college, or a friends. Useless if you only have access via dial up!
December 18th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
I don’t think i should have to invite my contacts to be connections so i can sort my mail. If you wish to separate the inbox and make it sortable do it in a fashion that makes sense. Allow me to see all the mail from address in my contacts. No connections.
December 18th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
I don’t like the update and if you want to provide it you should place it as an option and not forced it on us. Now every time I log on to my mail a couple of invites come up that I must remove. Unless Yahoo email goes back to the way it was, I’ll switch to someone else.
December 18th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
How did “twitterfying” the mail screen with contacts take precedence over real IMAP functionality? Really, how did it?
Was there a meeting in which someone said:
“We’ve been getting a lot of requests for real IMAP instead of Zimbra… But that’s not what the users are really saying they want. Instead, they’re really asking for twitterification of their email, so lets give them that. That’ll placate them”
How is it that Google made IMAP work for its Gmail users in multiple clients and you haven’t? Is it money or technology holding you back… because if it’s money, then just charge us something for it. I’ll be happier paying for IMAP, than not having it at all. I’m sorry Yahoo, but Zimbra is worthless. Sell it if you can.
December 18th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
I HATE this connections thing…it’s stupid and unnecessary and I think that there should be an easier way to TURN IT OFF. I went to options and looked around and couldn’t find it, but after reading this blog, I’ll try to follow Steve’s suggestion. THANK YOU, STEVE!
Seriously, I hate it. And once you ‘remove’ a contact it says they won’t show up again, yet the same ones show up over and over again! Grrrrrr.
December 19th, 2008 at 6:11 am
My YAHOO in Malaysia is messed up with Malay language instructions and sites. Why cant we have the old English site for those who want all their sites in English.
After all GOOGLES is giving the option to use Bahasa Malaysia or English I have stopped using YAHOO for a few months and some of my contacts whom I told not to contact me on YAHOO are still doing so. Only when they ring or send me a fax because I did not reply their Yahoo Email do I then go and open the Web site.
Please follow GOOGLES to the extent possible before most of us cut off YAHOO completely. I apologise for this message but I think I have a duty and an obligation to warn YAHOO earlier before the floods breach the banks.
December 19th, 2008 at 8:53 am
i do not enjoy this new feature! it is so aggravating for all these things to show up when all i want to do is check my mail!!
where are the album links under ‘new photos’
where are the ‘return to message’ links when replying to digest form
where are the alphabetical listings of albums in groups
these are things that should not have been changed!!
i hate the new mail set up–
if i wanted to deal with ‘myspace’ or ‘facebook’ i’d be there!!
December 19th, 2008 at 8:54 am
is there a way to REMOVE THE NEW CONNECTION from my email?!!!!
it is just a major pain the the butt!!
it doesn’t make any thing easier or better!!
just more crap to wade through to finally get to the mail i’m looking for!
December 19th, 2008 at 10:32 am
I love the new connections!!!! Yahoo Rocks!!!!!!!
December 19th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
it slows down my email but i think it would be smarter instead of creating all this “connection” junk that u should pick the imprtant people to pick from yur contacts to sort the inbox. Isn’t that a little easier?
December 19th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
MMM cearly readin teh aove comment, it would be nice for everyone to have clarification on this need to actually ADD a contact rather than selecting which one has to be prioritize.
Let’s get this straight, people are NOT going to invite anyone at all and in the end the connection thing will not work and the whole YOS will fail just like Y360 which tried to build another social network… You do not want that do you ?
Those 275 millions user are way too precious for you guys to pursue this way. e’re talking API, good then let simply link my Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn/whatever account I own right into yahoo! in a common feed… basically like Friendfeed. Wasn’ that the original idea after all ?
So are we opened or closed here?
December 19th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
I don’t want to see all these connections! I just want to GO STRAIGHT TO INBOX after signing in Yahoo! Mail. All these craps are slowing down my pc. Please, Yahoo! we’re linked with friends and family in Yahoo! Messenger. We want a faster email service, not crappy things like these.
1. IMAP support
2. LESS ADS
3. FASTER MAILBOX
The thing I like about Yahoo is because it provides reading pane and a lot of my friends and family use it. Gmail sucks without the reading pane. But, i need a FASTER MAILBOX SO I’LL SWITCH TO GMAIL
December 22nd, 2008 at 10:31 am
I don’t want this ‘Add Connections’ feature and have emailed THREE times to Yahoo to request instructions on how to remove the “Add Connections” feature off my email page. Still haven’t received a reply. This feature is obtrusive, really annoying in that it continually ’suggests’ the same person for me to add to the feature, despite the fact that I’ve clicked ‘remove’ on that contact and a little window appears saying they won’t be contacted and I won’t see that suggestion anymore. Ha!
I’m annoyed because Yahoo doesn’t respond; because I can’t find a simple way to remvoe this feature I didn’t ask for and don’t want on my email page.
I’m still waiting… hello, Yahoo, anybody? Noboby home?
Sincerely, Annoyed customer Jenny Sutton-Amr
January 9th, 2009 at 8:01 am
Stick it to em LOL :)
December 22nd, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Not thrilled with this new one. May be due partially to my lack of technical skills, but I really don’t like that it tries to be intuitive in the individual email delete feature and pre-supposes the check mark for delete, and then when I think I’ve “checked” the box for delete, turns out I haven’t. Need to fix that. I don’t want a machine second-guessing me anyway. Display lettering too small (for me to read) my email listing. Scroll feature for list of personal folders also takes way to long, and the Inbox folder should be at the first of the folders list (as I believe it was previously), not at the last of the folders list (I have lots of folders).
Sorry. Some fine-tuning needed.
December 23rd, 2008 at 4:43 am
Its too bad that there are so many complaints for a free service, when the mail team has worked so hard to improve their product. They have already stated that your privacy is protected with the new features and above all, there is an opt out feature. So if you dont like it, opt out! This also applies to those who think they deserve preferential treatment because they are plus subscribers (as I am). No special features are advertised for plus except more filters, imap, and no ads. If you got plus, you got it for those reasons, not to have all the say in the world what yahoo should and shouldnt do with your email account.
With that said, yahoo certainly needs to improve the mail stability. All the features are great, but they cant be had at the price of not being able to access your email reliably. I know the company is at a crossroads now,with staff lay-offs, uncertain new leadership, and shares down (i am feeling that pain!), but right now Mail is the best thing going for yahoo. Please keep it stable! Oh and BTW, please bring back RSS to the inbox (my yahoo is too slow)! Thanks and keep up the good work.
December 24th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Um, the opt-out feature doesn’t work.
December 31st, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Ahh Jake, Not only can you not opt-out they lie about it. On one page they say you can and here’s how to do it and when you go to the instructions they say no you can’t because “we built it from the ground up”, what ever that means ! What ever the case I’m sure at Yahoo it’s your typical scene of a bunch of 20 somethings all compeating to do something inovated and the result is they took a great working easy to use system and destroyed it in favor of an over-done over complicated pile of crap nobody want’s. Just show me ONE person that want’s all this junk ? Just ONE !…………..I bet they don’t exist anywhere.
Just my opinion…………………Sincerely, Jerry
December 23rd, 2008 at 7:51 am
Jake said:
“No special features are advertised for plus except more filters, imap, and no ads. If you got plus, you got it for those reasons, not to have all the say in the world what yahoo should and shouldnt do with your email account.”
Looking at: http://overview.mail.yahoo.com/enhancements/mailplus
IMAP is not available for either regular mail or “mail plus”. POP Mail is available for “mail plus” subscribers only.
IMAP is “available” if you want to lock yourself into Zimbra Desktop, which is an available option for for mail or mail plus subscribers.
Working hard is great… I think Yahoo’s engineering resources have been poorly directed. I’m clearly not the only one.
December 23rd, 2008 at 9:09 am
Fed Up…
Thanks for correcting me because I meant to say POP. Dont get me wrong, I see the shortfalls of the updates to the Yahoo mail. I was just overwhelmed by all of the negativity in the comments. Yahoo has a lot going on right now as a company. I like the way they are headed with the mail, and I hope the expand into more professional features along with their social features. New mail has problems, maybe even went to beta too early, but so far, when mail is working, I am enjoying it. Yahoo, if your listening, take your time, do it right.
December 24th, 2008 at 9:17 am
I am tired of being asked to “connect to” a list of people – whom you say I email frequently. They are not even in my contact list and might at best be one time only sends – I do not know who they are or where you are getting the email addresses. This is not for me at all!
Lynn
December 24th, 2008 at 11:13 am
The part about seeing where everyone is going on the Web is scary. Where is the privacy? I think that would keep me from accepting an invitation from others!
December 24th, 2008 at 11:34 am
THIS IS LAME!!! Seriously, you can’t get rid of it and after a while it starts displaying emails from other peoples messages that aren’t in your contacts and you’ve never even sent a message. Yahoo make this go away or I will.
December 31st, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Ya’h I hear you Kyle, Lame is an understatement and I’m having the same problems and more. I emailed yahoo numerous times to let them know how big of a disaster this whole thing is, you and everyone should do the same and just maybe, just maybe we can make this go away !
( I Hope )……………….geeeez what pile of garbage huh ?
Sincerely Jerry
December 25th, 2008 at 5:25 am
What the…..??? Seriously, 3rd party applications will invade your privacy. They might sell your email address. Yahoo people, please put the privacy into the first priority. People wants a FASTER mailbox without intrusive ads, that’s all.
And I think Yahoo! will be like AOL in the next 5 years. Yahoo! will vanish. And at that time, people will like “Are you still using Yahoo for email”.
Come on, Yahoo! Make something about the performance. The email filter needs tweaking! Focus on that instead of this connection thing.
Seriously….
December 25th, 2008 at 7:59 am
This is a lame feature that just screws up my mail program. I am NOT going to ask people to be a VIP. If you want to do it right, allow me the user to choose whose mail to prioritize in my inbox without requiring my true VIP’s to respond to something suspect.
December 25th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Hello.
Can you please tell me how to remove the Connections thing? I use my Yahoo e-mail for business purposes – which is why I pay for it. I don’t want or need it to look like Facebook/MySpace/Gmail, etc.
Please let me know how I can remove Connections, restore my Yahoo e-mail to its previous appearance…. or I can cancel my Premium account.
Thanks,
Josh
December 28th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
from an earlier comment:
“you can opt out. Click the options link in mail, and select mail options. Then in the left pane choose General category and uncheck the box marked “Enable Connection-related features (Messages, Suggestions, Updates)”
December 27th, 2008 at 12:32 am
“Comments for this post will be closed on 17 March 2009.”
Apparently, discussion was closed on December 25th, 2008 at 11:41 am, since that’s the last comment listed.
Written Dec. 27th, at 00:30 am pacific time.
December 28th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
I would like some proof that the product planners who came up with these connection features actually use them. But the funny thing is, they’re probably all on YMail since I doubt anyone at Yahoo would use GMail… That would be traitorous, so I hope no one at Yahoo does that. I mean, to me it would seem odd to send someone on a competing email service an invitation to connect. So I’m sure that all the connection stuff works just fine, right? Everyone happy?
I also want proof that none of the employees at Yahoo use anything but Zimbra for IMAP. Because honestly, why should we as a userbase be stuck with Zimbra if you guys get to use Outlook or Apple Mail for real IMAP that’s actually integrated into the computer?
I don’t think that’s too much to ask. AOL employees used AOL email and IM. Funny thing, those employees can get IMAP in whatever client they want.
I’m just saying….
December 28th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
I used to use yahoo email exclusivley but since you have made the sight so cumbersome I have opened a hotmail sight. now you want me to pay you $19.99 annually just get get rid of all the crap thaat clutters up my page when I am trying to read my mail. No thanks! I will just start moving all my e-mail to my hot mail address and then close yahoo e-mail.
December 29th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Connections… What a waste of time and money on your part! You are not Facebook, You are not Myspace. You USED to be someplace where I could send and receive email… not lately though. Apparently you’re not happy with that (even though I PAY for the “privilege” of that service).
Quit offering me useless functionality… and if you feel compelled to do so, give me the magic button to EASILY opt out of your crappy attempts to be more than just an email provider.
December 31st, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Hate it. If Yahoo knows enough to fish their suggestions out of my address book and email history, why not just put those people on priority status and let it go at that, instead of trying so desperately to be something they are not? I’ve had my Yahoo mail for 10 years, and used to love it, but constantly having to be a guinea pig for their half-baked “improvements” is driving me away. For the record, I’m a crusty old curmudgeon who HATES the social networking scene, and avoids it at all costs. Anything that smells like it gets a two thumbs down from me.
December 31st, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Why Oh Why On Gods Green Earth Do They Have To Always Feel They Need To Improve Something That Was Already Working Great ?
What a disaster !
People ! Please make sure you let them Yahoo’s hear you loud and clear that this is this biggest blunder EVER !
It don’t work and even if it did nobody want’s it ! . They’ve taken a great simple and easy to use system and destroyed it. ” IF IT AIN’T BROKE DON’T TRY TO FIX IT ! ” Geeeeeeeeeeeez ! what a mess ! (
(Hope they didn’t waste to much $$ on It) ……it’s useless garbage !
January 2nd, 2009 at 8:57 am
Why is there no way to turn off the Connections invitation “reminder”? I don’t want to use this feature – TURN IT OFF or give me the option!!!
January 2nd, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Opher, BINGO !
January 3rd, 2009 at 12:52 am
Please provide us with the option to disable “my connections”.
January 3rd, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Stop the connections crap. I’m being asked to connect to people that were CC’ed on email like 4 months ago and the author was not me. I’ve never sent one email to them.
January 6th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Jim, Ya’h and don’t that piss you off ! and no matter how many times you check them off they’ll soon come back again to the list. Instructions don’t work either but here’s a suggestion for you that I did and it stopped all invite suggestions from appearing. You still get the page but at least you don’t have look at stupid suggested friends. >Go directly to the entire contact list and check them all off all at once. That at least stopped the flow of suggested friends etc…. try it ! might work for u-2
January 6th, 2009 at 7:52 am
The sooner you get rid of this awful Connections feature the better. It is worthless and it messes up the screen where more useful information was displayed. Whose pathetic idea was this anyway? I’d be reluctant to brag this up because if it doesn’t come off, I’m out of here to a different service. Yahoo is not the only option – keep that in mind. Based on the comments so far, you have a big loser in your plan.
January 7th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
This is ALMOST as bad as the Windows update that locked my whole computer up. Only this time it makes my email lock up. This had to rank as one of the worst “improvements” I’ve yet seen to Yahoo. Scrolling to the comments I see a grand total of ONE “yahoo rocks” comment and the entire page of dozens of comments negative. Don’t just make it “opt out”… DITCH IT. Why is it never “opt in”? Oh that’s right.. because when they try that NO ONE (or at least only a couple percent tops) actually does it. That says something about the quality of your “upgrades.”
January 7th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
By the way:
The “opt-out” isn’t working. Unchecked the box, cleared out the cache, followed every instruction. The same damn Connections thing keeps popping up.
January 9th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Mine worked and stayed gone so far. I’d say report it to their customer care people. I know that’s somewhat of a fruitless endeavor, but sounds like you are not alone in having the opt out not work for you. Best to let them know so maybe they can unbug the opt-out.
I was actually surprised to hear they had an opt out feature at all, as they often won’t even let you delete yourself from services once you try them and don’t like them. I have a Yahoo Answers profile, for example. can’t stand the place, but they won’t let me delete myself, nor will they do it for me. I feel like violating the TOS just to get deleted and get my privacy back.
January 11th, 2009 at 11:16 am
I was just really curious about something. I know you guys have probably gotten tons of eamil about it already, so this is another to throw on the pile. I have been using yahoo for quite some time. I always like exploring my options as well. What has been the issue with Yahoo and IMAP? I really don’t understand. I had an iPhone until recently and “IMAP” worked on it beautifully. Now along comes Zimbra ( I am not sure why Yahoo bothered with it) and they offer IMAP thru the Suite. Now I understand I can pay for Pop access, but it’s really not helpful when you have other folders and keep everything organized. The most basic question is…Why the wait with IMAP? EVERYONE else uses it. I recently played around with Hotmail and Gmail and they worked wonderfully with Outlook 2007. Hotmail even syncs the calender now as well. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not hopping on the Microsoft bandwagon yet. But when I look at the fact that Yahoo sunk a lot of money into Zimbra (possibly a very futile effort to unsurp Outlook?? )…and no IMAP when everyone else has had it and has been offering for free the last few years…makes me wonder. I will say this, Yahoo has an incredibly great homepage that is nice to configure. I do like the new look for email (although a more configureable reading pane would be nice, namely a side view instead of right below the message list)..but there will have to be some changes I would think….very soon. Oh, I almost forgot…now Yahoo offers a more enhanced version for iPhone users as well. Hmmm…does this mean that Yahoo is becoming more Mac friendly and is dropping off support for PC and WinMo devices?…Just some points to ponder. I would like to see the new Yahoo home page rolling out very soon. I find it disappointing that every country gets offered these updates as betas without the U.S. That kind of bothers me. I would hate to get away from yahoo as I have used it the last few years…but at this rate…I’ll have to switch over. Tell me there is some hope in there somewhere? It seems as if Yahoo has lost touch with the customers. Paying for email? I won’t. I just think Yahoo needs to get back in touch with the people. Intergrate everything a little bit better. More themes for mail. UPDATE THE CALENDER YAHOO !! Goodness it is a hideous throwback. Anyways…I am done rambling now. Its looking more and more like I am going to have to switch, regrettably. Right now, I have to use hotmail to get everything to sync with my AT&T Tilt. Once I download the Live service, it syncs my contacts and everything on my phone. No more searchng for addresses thru the mail interface. It is always backed up. When is Yahoo going to catch up? Making all these applications other than concentrating on email? C’mon guys….really?
January 12th, 2009 at 5:32 am
i love the new site i can kep in touch with my friends and family far away and my man Steven Simpeh who overseas right now and we keep it touch though yahoo so i love this site very much
January 12th, 2009 at 7:10 am
Is it really THAT hard to just use a filter to move your “VIP” contacts to the front of your inbox? (and use a real social networking site for those activities?)
January 14th, 2009 at 6:30 am
I had been a happy user of Y mail for many years, but the service has deteriorated so much in the last month, that I now consider it unreliable. If things don’t change quickly, I’ll be finding a new mail service to be happy at.
February 4th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
i find it to be confusing you are told to do something when you do that then there is somthing more to be done each time. is like you will never get connected.
January 14th, 2009 at 6:36 am
Where is Zimbera mail does it have a interface to Thundebird or Outlook Express or is Zimbera a web mail client? Where is Yahoo Messenger desktop?
January 16th, 2009 at 9:34 am
I hated the connections thing from the moment I saw it. I got it by accident while trying to change my listed age on my birthday. Some birthday present, huh? It seems Yahoo is trying to run me off.
Thanks to the people who suggested I delete cookies. That got rid of it.
January 16th, 2009 at 10:43 am
I more information on the above give friends and how i can get in touch with more friends on my mail thanks.
January 18th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
i love yahoo!!! It makes it so easy for me to have fun and conect with friends!!
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January 20th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
I DO NOT appreciate the automatic update of my profile and friend suggestions that were sent out last night. I received many “suggestions” of adding people that I do not know….but obviously in some of my contact’s lists.
Not once was I asked for permission and now I have a bunch of people who are scratching their heads wondering why I sent them an invite to get connected.
I do not think this is good business practice!
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January 22nd, 2009 at 2:47 am
i don,t miss on yahoomail id any where any times.
January 24th, 2009 at 6:33 am
This connections thing is a bunch of CRAP!!!!! I definitely DO NOT WANT IT or the ads for it on my mail page. Please get rid of this crap before I decide to get rid of Yahoo! Connections has got to be in the “top ten” of the stupidest things a web site has ever done in the history of the internet. Get rid of it!!!!
January 24th, 2009 at 8:02 am
What happened to my comment? Are you guys tired of the criticism? As I commented on another thread, I have disconnected connections in my mail options, so I don’t have a problem anymore. I don’t have to look at that stooopid connections crap on my mail page anymore. But it looks like you guys have a public relations problem, a credability problem and a business problem. Get rid of that stupid connections thing before it does you in!
January 24th, 2009 at 8:08 am
Why has every comment I have put on this article been taken off? Does this mean you guys are actually reading the comments? Maybe you’re smarter than I thought you were.
January 24th, 2009 at 8:10 am
Hey! My comments are back now. What happened?
January 24th, 2009 at 11:41 am
My comments (4 posts) are gone again. What’s going on?
January 25th, 2009 at 5:45 am
What happened to my comments?
January 25th, 2009 at 5:50 am
My comments are back now. What’s happening? My comments keep disappearing, but when I add a new comment, they all come back. What’s going on? Can anybody else see my comments? Are they disappearing and then coming back for everybody, or just me?
January 25th, 2009 at 7:28 am
I dont think the video is that good because i didn’t understand it.I agree with everyone that this thing is dumb it slows down my computer and my yahoo mail.
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January 29th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
When is the “search” going to work correctly again? It doesn’t return any results that are more than six or so months old. I wish you guys would make basic e-mail functionality a priority rather than coming up with new features that nobody asked for and nobody needs. Thanks!
February 12th, 2009 at 9:38 am
I used to be able to click on an email, go to ‘From’ and get every email that person has sent me. It was a great feature. Now no longer available. AND the search doesn’t work. I get results from last month and prior, but not the mail sent this month, which is what I am looking for. So tedious to have to page through to find the name, and then if I open the mail to verify if I have the correct one, I have to start my search all over again. Nor can I pick a date to look at. VERY VERY FRUSTRATING.
February 5th, 2009 at 4:23 am
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February 18th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
I DO NOT LIKE THIS CONNECTION SUGGESTION MESS!!
Most of the people that’s being suggested are people I do not know. I do not want to be suggested to connect with everybody that uses Yahoo in my friends contact list. THIS IS RIDICULOUS!!
I also do not like that my inbox does not stay the way that I put it. I like to read my emails from past to present, not present to past. These new features are really upsetting me!! I want my Yahoo inbox back the way I had it!! I have had Yahoo Mail for a VERY long time. Please don’t make me find another service. I do not like this new way and I do not want this new way. FIX IT NOW!!
February 20th, 2009 at 8:08 am
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February 21st, 2009 at 7:20 am
how on earth do I get rid of this F**ing ‘connections thing???? I’ve tried and tried. I’m not computer savvy and I can’t figure it out. I HATE the ‘connections’ thing – please HELP!!!!
February 21st, 2009 at 7:25 am
how on earth do I get rid of this annoying ‘connections thing???? I’ve tried and tried. I’m not computer savvy and I can’t figure it out. I HATE the ‘connections’ thing – please HELP!!!!
February 21st, 2009 at 7:25 am
how on earth do I get rid of this annoying ‘connections thing???? I’ve tried and tried. I’m not computer savvy and I can’t figure it out. I HATE the ‘connections’ thing – please HELP!!!!
February 21st, 2009 at 7:30 am
PLEASE – can anyone tell me how to get rid of this ‘connections’ thing?? I HATE it!
February 21st, 2009 at 7:33 am
PLEASE – how do I get rid of this ‘connections’ thing??? I HATE it!
February 27th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
I don’t know who desided that this new format was good but It takes up my whole screen very hard to read mail personally it sucks I would have liked to hard the choice tostay wih older layour..forget yahoo I’ll just go and stay with g-mail..much less cluttered..is there a way to return to old format
March 4th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
this is an aiight website thing!!!!gr8job
March 14th, 2009 at 2:11 am
i am very happy to meet more of the frind and spake with anybody
March 19th, 2009 at 5:54 am
I connected with a good friend and everyday it makes me reconnect with him. WHY IS THIS. If he connected with me the first day then why does he have to reconnect with me every single day. I to HATE KNOWING the WHOLE WORLD CAN READ ALL YOUR STUFF. At first I thought it was a GREAT Idea. BUT now I think it STINKS. I also HATE having all my folders out in the open on my front page. there is a reason that a person hides them. Now they are out in the open and if anyone is on your computer all’s they have to do is click and can read ANY OF MY SAVED MAIL IN ANY FOLDER I HAVE. I personally have e,maild yahoo 50 times to change that and alot of other things and NEVER EVER GOT A RESPONSE BACK FROM ANYONE AT YAHOO. YOU ALL NEVER RESPOND TO ANYTHING. I WANT MY FOLDERS OFF MY FRONT PAGE YESTERDAY. (ACUALLY THE SAME DAY THEY WERE PUT ON THERE.) WHAT WAS THE REASON FOR DOING THAT????? TAKE MY FOLDERS OFF MY FRONT PAGE FOR THE HUNDRETH TIME. And make it so not everyone can ready you mail sent to your connections. this is not helping yahoo one bit. YOU ARE LOOSING CUSTOMERS REAL FAST CAUSE OF ALL YOU STUPID CHANGES. STOP WITH THEM ALREADY. AND PUT MYU FOLDERS BACK WHERE THEYU BELON “”"”HIDDEN”"”"” TAKE EM OFF MY HOME PAGE. NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IF YOU ARE GONNA DO CHANGES DO GOOD CHANGES. WE SHOULD HAVE A SAY IN WHAT WE WNAT CHANGED. AND HAVIN THOSE FOLDERS ON MY FRONT PAGE ISN’T ONE I WANT. SO FIX IT OR I AM GOING TO OLEAVE YAHOO. TOO……………………………. FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT ALREADY. YOU NEED TO LEARN TO ANSEWER YOUR MAIL TOO. EVEN IF YOU DON’T LIKE THE QUESTIONS. YAHOO USE TO BE NUMBER ONE NOW IT SUCKS
March 30th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
I totally give up!! I keep getting that famous error that Yahoo claims they don’t know why it occurs and will fix itself and it’s temporary…well.. it’s NOT!!! after a million complaints I still can’t send emails for many months now!! I had to create a temporary email just to SEND mails!!! HELP!!!
June 14th, 2009 at 1:02 am
how to recieve live tv on a mac computer…
I have been looking for a long time and found this post. Thanks a lot….
June 14th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
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