How to try out all those cool open apps!
- Posted December 16th, 2008 at 3:13 pm by Mail Team
- Categories: All-New Mail, New Stuff
As mentioned previously, the open applications in Yahoo ! Mail are available by invitation only. However, if you are interested in participating in the limited beta, please go here and sign up to be a beta tester. We will slowly be adding new users over the coming weeks and months. Thanks very much for your interest!
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December 16th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Oh my gosh! I am 11 years old but still from what I know about this yahoo mail thing it is GREAT! You should all try it.
December 17th, 2008 at 8:05 am
whoever got the smart idea to change the mail browser should be fired!!
when it opens up, i don’t want to see some ad!! i haven’t seen a single thing about the new mail that is better, infact its worse!!! and not being able to use the old one sucks! what a trick! the bait and switch idea!
where is the chat on the new mail? i don’t see the word chat at all !
i got rid of the ad, first thing! how about some more space for attachments, the limit is 10 mb now, how about video e-mailing? now that would make it better. or if the program would ring like a telephone, and i could call your computer directly. it better be good, real good ! before i would pull another stupid one like this one!!
December 18th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
How did you get rid of the ad?
January 16th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
I also hate the loads of ads my browser has to load before I can even take a sneak peek at my email.
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:42 am
Use adblock plus an extention 2 fire fox, it blocks most ads on most webpages, u can even press a little block button next to an ad to block it
December 29th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
I agree totally with Todd & Dorothy. How do I get rid of all this rubbish? I haven’t got time to remove all this every time I go into my mail. Yahoo.please remove this new “improved” mail business or I will switch to Gmail completely.
December 30th, 2008 at 6:51 am
its there….when you go to the top, by your name it says offline,invisible,avaliable,busy pick one if u pick avaliable or invisible, ur IM will show up on the side saying whos on then, click there name and a tab will appear in ur email thats where u IM
January 10th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Run a cleaner – temp files and registry and it will get rid of the yahoo pop up. the address bar has an “m” in it. It’s a hack
January 26th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
I’m with you on this. The new yahoo mail is a piece of crap. There is so much junk in the thing. By the time you find where the compose email info. is located in the mess or how to send a message to mobile, let’s just say frustration takes over and a new email site is already the outcome. Oh, and what is worse with the irritation, if the mobile company using is not signed up with yahoo, forget sending a message to a mobile. What a joke. Someone had not anything to do at work one day, was wigged on Meth or something and decided instead of taking the electronics apart, they would add as much junk as they could possibly fit or squeeze into the space . Well, MR. or MS. you screwed up the email. The rest of the world may not be on Meth. today. We do not have the time or want to go to New Yahoo mail training. Please call your dealer and have him supply you with some of whatever you were on and fix the F-ING email site back.
December 16th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
Why are we having frequent problems lately that Yahoo website is not accessible? I now have to apologise to a cousin in another part of the world that his birthday wishes are late – because Yahoo was down. Please take into account that not only Americans use this facility, but also people in Australia, South Africa, New Zealand. Different time-zones e-mailing each other. If this continues, you will lose us.
December 16th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
So let me get this straight, your “open” applications are available via a closed beta. I really think you guys need to find out what open means.
December 16th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Yahoo mail down somewhere around 3-4 AM CST. I can’t remember exactly since I switch immediately to Gmail to send important email. What happen guys??
December 16th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Huh? that URL is an oops page (look at the link).
It’s not April 1st, is it?
December 16th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
No, it’s not April 1st.. Look over to the right. You can sign up as a beta tester.
Check the box next to “I agree with all this, and I still want to be a Beta tester!” Enter your Yahoo! Email address and click on “Submit.”
December 17th, 2008 at 3:36 am
I’m entering my Yahoo email address and getting a window asking me to enter a valid address. Is this not available to people with a yahoo.co.uk email?
January 16th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Jesus! We are BETA guinea pigs, now! Great change…for the worst!!!
December 17th, 2008 at 8:01 am
Cannot sign up with a yahoo.co.uk email address. :( Says ‘Please enter a valid email address’. No beta testing for UK users? :(
December 17th, 2008 at 10:08 am
So, I am reading nothing but problems with yahoo, whether its with apps or emails. I am debating on if I should transfer to gmail completely or give yahoo another chance after the chance I gave it before and before that and before that.
Stop trying to be cool and make yahoo like outlook with look and function.
December 20th, 2008 at 8:48 am
Why do you say that?
January 8th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
I agree, I am sooooooooo tired of yahoo. It used too be so great. Now I’m beging kicked off, and having to resign in contsantly, I’m losing stuff. They switch my page around. I’ve been fished. I hate change, but am looking for another web site, I can keep up with and understand.
January 16th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Well, Outlook does function…yahoo does NOT!
December 17th, 2008 at 10:25 am
I just un-installed Internet Explorer because of the new problems from Tuesday. I downloaded Firefox 3.0. Now I have headaches I never had before and I don’t think they have anything to do with Firefox. I have had a Yahoo! e-mail acct. since I can remember, but I’m finding out that my G-Mail acct. is much easier to use. And I just became informed that I’m not the only one having Yahoo! problems after I just read all these comments. Very disappointing. Thank God Microsoft didn’t complete the Yahoo! deal. Can you imagine what a mess that would have been? I can’t imagine, the scope is way to large!!!
January 16th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
I am afraid some Yahoo staff got the Boot, and went to Google for work. Google is getting exactly like Yahoo when it started sucking…at least Blogger is!!! Must be anepidemic…lets get the Guillotine back at work!!!
December 17th, 2008 at 11:46 am
Does anybody else have problems with attachments being corrupted?
I have over 200 users with POP accounts with Yahoo and we have noticed over the last month that excel, word and pdf attachments are corrupt when trying to open.
December 17th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Yahoo mail search functionality in my primum account stoped working a month ago. I can not find most recent 08 emails in any of the folders. Support said “Our Engineering Team has determined that there is not an immediate fix for this issue, and they are continuing to work on the resolution.” It has been over a month. Does Yahoo Mail Team understand that core features like search can not be left unresolved with no ETA?
December 17th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Please don’t junk up my e-mail with ‘free apps’. I use e-mail for . . . . .E-MAIL. I don’t chat, I don’t porn, I don’t pwn, I don’t swap, I don’t download. Every computer I ever bought had tons of ‘free apps’, they were the first to be deleted. If Yahoo junks up my e-mail anymore, I will switch to another e-mail
January 16th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
And the new Junk is AUTOMATIC!…two year olds are complaining too: not just us, the sixtysix year olds
December 18th, 2008 at 5:47 am
Well! Is one to believe that only the complainers bother to post anything here, and those with good results keep quiet? Or is it really a bad thing and we should all be switching to gmail? I myself have had minor problems with all of them, proxy mail servers included, so am not complaining specifically about this one.
December 18th, 2008 at 7:51 am
Simpler is better. Lets keep it easy to use. Grandkids and ole people like it that way. Just sit down and email. If you want flashy stuff go to the other junk companies. Keep Yahoo good and easy to use.
January 8th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
I agree totally with this one
January 16th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
Me too (for me to agree to ANYTHING, it must be a real catastrophe)
December 18th, 2008 at 11:33 am
I agree with what Richard said. Just keep what works working. I also have had problems with Yahoo.
January 16th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
Me, problems with Yahoo mail,Yahoo 360°, myYahoo page…even the yodel is bad, now!
December 18th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Leave my email alone, you are always trying to give us junk. I only write to friends and I don’t need to have them connected. I also have bought Norton Security, don’t get junk mail. If it is going to be changed let me know, I want to get off of Yahoo, and go somewhere that I can rely on. No one wants your lame ideas!!!!
December 18th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
You guys beat all, you know that? The link at the above actually SAYS ‘oops’ in it. What?? It’s been that way for two days. It STILL says that, and takes you to 404-city. Anyone still there? I give up.
December 18th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
I was just added to the beta, I have the connections in my inbox, but none of the apps are there. Pretty much worthless right now…
December 18th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
I love the new applications beta. While at the moment none of the applications really apply to me, the step is in the right direction. I would like to see applications for Facebook, Myspace, LinkedIn, and Xanga. Additionally, I think this move is one closer to returning my RSS feeds to my inbox. I think this new feature has a lot of potential.
It is nice because if users don’t want apps, they don’t have to install any. Whereas, those users who like the added functionality, can add future apps to their hearts content.
However, I will say I think the whole idea of connections is a little worthless. I regularly stay on top of spam, so the only e-mail that gets delivered to my inbox is the mail I want.
Great job yahoo! keep up the good work!
December 19th, 2008 at 6:45 am
That will be great.If you can add facebook and twitter to inbox it will be great.Those are my social networks next to wordpress,flickr and xoopit.Keep up the good work.
December 20th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Why is it?
When you have a simple mail program that works as a ‘mail program’ some idiot have to add more crap on it?
I suppose they hire these people to “improve” on the product.
Ya know what’s needed and they WILL NOT do it?
A “white list”!
What’s a white-list?
It’s a few lines of codes added to the program that WILL NOT ALLOW anything come to your mailbox unless YOU permit it by putting that address on your LIST… that’s why it’s called a ‘white-list’.
Ya know, in a single day you can WIPE OUT ALL SPAMS!
However, yahoo makes money on useless filters they want you to buy.
None works.
WHITE LIST work!
I setup a webmail like Yahoo in the past, and NOT ONE “unwanted’ mail ever came to anyones box in 9 months !
If I can do it without any real programming knowledge and under $300 USD for the whole thing, why can’t this Billion dollar company do it?
Money.
That’s why.
All their ‘filter sales’ would dry up in a single day.
Write and complain and mention the WHITE-LIST function.
Do a search on the net for white-list and see other webmails have it.
There is NO spam in those.
I really doubt if they will ever take user’s response seriously, but you can try as I do here. Maybe someone will read it.
December 21st, 2008 at 10:58 am
why can’t i be an beta tester?i have gave my adress but its’ dont work
December 22nd, 2008 at 7:36 am
I have a problem with junk mail also, I don’t want to look at my mail and find other things in here that I DO NOT WANT. Please do something about it. It is very stupid to go and see other emials in there and have to delete, come on get it right or i am going some where else.If you want to keep me make it right and fast. PROBLEMS, PROBLEMS FIX IT PLEASE.
December 27th, 2008 at 11:55 am
I opened a gmail address to communicate professionally. I think the first comment says it all by saying, “I am 11 and I love it”. “Oh my gosh”, you guys; there is a professional world out here that you could market as well! Good luck.
December 28th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
I think YMail is past the point of luck…. and I agree with you completely Stu. You are spot on.
I’m not surprised by anything that YMail does or does not do anymore.
YMail is becoming the Myspace of email… and that’s a real shame.
December 30th, 2008 at 12:12 am
This is the same problem as with changing the profiles. The vast majority of your clientele do not want this change. We want the bots gone, something akin to user rooms, alies profiles and the rest the way it was. If you want to add in some bells and whistles fine but ‘open and social’ should not mean ‘violation of privacy and rights’. Please stop messing with the only good IM and chat client out there. People don’t want it, give us what we had.
December 30th, 2008 at 10:55 am
It just amazes me that most of what I have read here I have sent to Yahoo in emails!!
Why is it that when it’s NOT broke, somebody has to try & fix it??
Why can’t they have it so if ya don’t wanna change, ya don’t have to??
I agree, I have had nothing but problems with this new program & I HATE it!!!! I just want to go to my email, write my email & send it.
As far as the spam filter, it ain’t working for me & I have it set to where I should not be getting 5-8 spam emails A DAY!!
I’ve been with Yahoo, like one of them I read, so long, I can’t remember how long & most of the time, I really loved it, but after this last one, I don’t know. I’ve got gmail already, might change there completely.
Okay, there’s my 2 cents or more like 10. :-)
January 13th, 2009 at 10:47 am
I get more spaam than before-somewhere t is not filtering out
December 31st, 2008 at 7:06 pm
I used to think that the Microsoft deal was a bad idea. Now I just feel that Yahoo! is so aimless that it probably should have happened. Change for the sake of change or for trying to keep up with the Jones just brings headaches. It seems Yahoo! is losing core fans and converting no one with all their vapor-words-ware and ad-obtruse-ware. Things that used to work no longer do in exchange for promised better sometime in the future. Now though, it seems as if Yahoo is in one giant site-wide alpha phase. Thankfully there’s Google. I’ve ended everything that I can, but you got me, somethings are just too ingrained into my social networks. Loyal because I have to. Great work guys.
January 1st, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Well Marshall, Bottom line is yahoo is a mess and as “Loyal” as I am by nature after many years with yahoo I like many others simply at this point can’t take it anymore. They started this whole mess over a month ago and there are people who still can’t use important functions of their mailbox for various reasons and like myself have been forced to move on and put loyalty aside.
Gmail is more then alright and it’s easy to use and more importantly reliable ! Yahoo obviously underestimated the value of an easy to use system. To make matters worse the so called “New Yahoo” crap just don’t work and the problems and dissatisfied users are getting bigger and worse by the day. They are destroying their own company and so far refuse to admit the whole thing has been a disaster that still can;t be fixed. They need to put their ego’s and pride in their pocket for now and chalk this whole disaster up to experience and at the very least allow the choice if someone want’s certain features or not.
And then and only then can they begin to get any of us back on their site. If my yahoo was working at more then a snails pace I’d have all my mail and files moved to gmail by now. So it will take a little longer then I would like but eventually I’ll be completely gone from yahoo.
Yahoo has made a giant blunder and they need to stop and turn it around before they loose their entire client base.
January 2nd, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Yahoo became my default Email several years ago when I was traveling around the world on business. It was simple and worked anywhere I could get a connection. The new bells and whistles are sometimes confusing and not really necessary for someone who wants an Email program with working attachments and a contact list. Since the new changes have started to come I have set up a Gmail and will start switching as I add new contacts. GOOD BYE Yahoo
January 3rd, 2009 at 1:01 pm
What ever you have done with this new email program “GET RID OF IT”.. GO BACK TO THE WAY IT USED TO BE,, I HATE IT !! every time I open up my mail I get this invite thing that will not STOP.. PLEASE GET IT OFF THERE !!!!!!!!
January 5th, 2009 at 3:58 am
hello people at Yahoo Mail and have a good new year
I reported via your feedback system a serious technical problem regarding the creation of new @rocketmail and perhaps @ymail addresses.
Please do not ignore it.
January 6th, 2009 at 4:09 am
I hate the new yahoo give me back the old one and my contact list where I can see my contacts and there address at the same time.
PLEASE GIVE ME BACK MY OLD YAHOO
January 8th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
I feel the same way as 90% of the commets. I like the old yahoo. Especially for those of us who just use computer to keep in touch or search. I also am looking for a site to change to. It’s been more then a few months
January 11th, 2009 at 6:47 am
I want to send an e-mail from Microsoft word but I need to put info about my server.(don’t know where) anyway..yahoo says I need to buy the mail service in order to do that
January 17th, 2009 at 9:38 am
dont know about pc stuff.I work construction never use pc mutch.Anyone help me?
January 17th, 2009 at 9:38 am
dont know about pc stuff.I work construction never use pc mutch.Anyone help me?
January 24th, 2009 at 8:47 am
KISS!!!!! Keep It Simple Stupid! I’ve had a Yahoo email account for several years now. Why? Because it WAS a nice, simple, intuitive, easy-to-use program! Why do you guys want to screw up a good thing? Do you remember New Coke? There’s a lesson to be learned there. When you change to immitate the guy who’s gaining on you, you really screw up. You loose your base, who liked what you had, and you don’t pick up any new business, because your competitor had it first, and anyone who really wants it is already with them. And then, business takes a nosedive. Business can survive bad decisions, but it won’t grow through them. Wake up before it’s too late.
January 26th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
I’m with you on this. The new yahoo mail is a piece of crap. There is so much junk in the thing. By the time you find where the compose email info. is located in the mess or how to send a message to mobile, let’s just say frustration takes over and a new email site is already the outcome. Oh, and what is worse with the irritation, if the mobile company using is not signed up with yahoo, forget sending a message to a mobile. What a joke. Someone had not anything to do at work one day, was wigged on Meth or something and decided instead of taking the electronics apart, they would add as much junk as they could possibly fit or squeeze into the space . Well, MR. or MS. you screwed up the email. The rest of the world may not be on Meth. today. We do not have the time or want to go to New Yahoo mail training. Please call your dealer and have him supply you with some of whatever you were on and fix the F-ING email site back.
January 26th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
Oh my gosh, What the heck happened to the email system? By the time the compose is found from all the junk, frustration takes over. Sending to a mobile. Just forget this one and exit out. The mobile company probably is not on the list anyway.
So, which ever employee decided to smoke their whole bag of meth before work, cram as much crap into one page as possible, and wigg on the email system——CONGRADULATIONS YOU HAVE SUCCEEDED! If you are not fired yet, please call your dealer and get some of what you had and fix it!!!!! The rest of the world may not be on METH. or have the time to write some stupid comment as this is. Go back home and take your electronics apart or something and leave the F-ing email alone.
January 27th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Hey guys, it’s called competition. unfortunately, it usually backfires on people, yet, corporate have to try to keep up with the jones’. whether or not we, the clientel approve is not a matter. It’s all about the bigger, better, the most incredible. It’s a human Being out or touch with what is really in demand. Just look at McDonald’s. Everyone was happy with the 14cent burger even if it only had a pickle slice and some mayo. It was enough. after 40 yours the size of the burger is 5x bigger and so iz the size of the patrons. That is scarry to think what will happen in the computer and social environment! All I can say is this is a good example of what happens in the competetive corporate world!!!!!!!
February 3rd, 2009 at 10:14 pm
i don’t like this put on i have names come up from mail i dont no i wish it was never put on my pc i can do with out it just like a lot of people so take it off an cram it
this is messing me up a lot
March 3rd, 2009 at 9:08 am
i realy want to join thi site. i think it is nice.
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Hey that isa cool but I want to now how you do it and I don’t get it.