Take a tour of Yahoo! Mail’s new smarter inbox

As you may have heard, we’ve been working on a new smarter inbox to help make your life easier. We’re happy to announce that today, some of you will begin to experience the smarter inbox, and we wanted to give everyone a chance to see what it looks like and what it can do.

The smarter inbox experience features a new Yahoo! Mail Welcome Page which surfaces messages, information and activity updates you care about most, as well as an updated inbox and folder view that filters messages from your personal connections.

The smarter Yahoo! Mail inbox also gives you immediate access to relevant third-party applications like Flickr, Flixster and Xoopit allowing you to do much more, and be more efficient, all from within your inbox. Take a look now and let us know what you think!

- Yahoo! Mail Team

Update: We are conducting a very limited beta test right now of the open applications in Yahoo! Mail. Only our power users, who were invited into the limited beta, can test out the new applications at beta.mail.yahoo.com. We will be extending this beta test to additional users over the coming months.

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December 15th, 2008 at 1:08 pm

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Comment by marg

December 17th, 2008 at 12:13 am

I am one angry codger. I’m not interested in any of this crap, and my sneaky feeling of being scrutinised is only reinforced by some bloody website telling me I should invite my friends. Sheer desperation has driven me to find the only possible avenue to complain. Back off and let me send my emails in peace.

Comment by Nick

December 17th, 2008 at 6:42 am

I agree with marg but not so angrily. I would like a way to disable the connection suggestions. I’ve spent the last 30 minutes clicking remove but it goes from my contacts to mail messages to Messenger. I must have over 1,000 names amongst all of them. It also suggests the same name more than once. Once I say no, it should not suggest the same address again. Even once I clean it all out, I suspect it will start nagging me again as soon as I get another message or add a contact.

I’m not saying it’s a bad feature, I’m suggesting it needs to have a way to disable it, especially since it’s right smack in front of you every time you log into mail.

Comment by Laura

December 18th, 2008 at 7:19 am

There is an option under General to disable “Connections” feature. After you do that it takes you back to the old “home” one.

 
Comment by Anne M. Carrelli

January 16th, 2009 at 9:59 pm

I agree; I have no time for this mail blog and why do Yahoo have offices in Swiss area. I like to e-mail and keep in touch with good friends and those I have met along the way, but I do not get this blogging thing

 
 
Comment by A Guy

December 17th, 2008 at 8:20 am

Add my voice to the clamor, this sh- crap is almost enough to send me back to Hotmail. Somehow I suspect they’ve implemented similar “improvements”, though.

 
Comment by Dianne

December 17th, 2008 at 8:34 am

I’d like to turn off the “invite” feature. I’m never going to use it and I’d rather not have it show up every time I log in to my in box. Is there an “off switch”?

Comment by Dianne

December 17th, 2008 at 8:34 am

Never mind. I just saw the answer in the comments farther down. Thank you.

 
Comment by Beth

December 27th, 2008 at 10:18 am

I’m with Diane - How do you turn off these “pop-ups” that keep coming on the screen? - I’M NOT INTERESTED!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comment by Mo

February 15th, 2009 at 8:16 pm

Somtimes it is just a matter of relaxing. I use two type of browsers. The first one I can switch off the cookies etc, and do my work in peace without the phishing and pop ups. Total privacy like being in the wilderness on Safari. Second One is an Open Source Browser, Firefox keeps everything away from me, though still allow corps such as Yahoo to collect info. I try not to use Explorer at all, it is fraught with all kinds of floors. It is a hackers paradise, imagine if you were sold a car and while driving away the wheels fall, then to be told, “Oh that suppose to happen” well that is Explorer. The main issue to follow through with most honest web users is simply being smarter in both your e-mail and lastly, the sites you visit.

 
 
 
Comment by avoidz

December 26th, 2008 at 5:55 am

There was nothing wrong with my Yahoo! inbox before; now it’s slower and shows me stuff I don’t care about and just gets in the way and annoys me.

Unhappy.

 
Comment by Ellen

December 28th, 2008 at 12:35 pm

I too am not the least bit interested in any of this yahoo upgrade - if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it!!

 
Comment by Jan

January 14th, 2009 at 12:57 pm

I’m with you. If I want to invite I know I have the option. I’m seeing emails I marked spam because I don’t want anything to do with them and then they ask me if I want to connect..>????

 
 
Comment by Nick

December 17th, 2008 at 6:53 am

For those who find the connection suggestions are irritating as others do (including me), you can turn it off in Mail Options - General, uncheck, Enable Connection Related features. This removes the entire panel.

Comment by A Guy

December 17th, 2008 at 8:22 am

Thanks, Nick! My blood pressure may return to normal now.

Comment by bella

December 17th, 2008 at 11:28 am

Mine too. Honestly….why does Yahoo think that thye have to mess with things? Just leave well enough alone, for Pete’s sake!

 
 
Comment by Dan

December 17th, 2008 at 2:08 pm

No, that does *not* work! How annoying and aggravating! I’ve unchecked the “Enable Connection” and it does nothing to remove the entire panel. Next time I check my mail, it comes right back even with the feature unchecked. Terrible work, Yahoo!

Comment by A Guy

December 17th, 2008 at 5:26 pm

That’s odd, it worked for me. Did you hit the “save changes” button?

 
 
Comment by LATaurus

December 22nd, 2008 at 9:53 pm

thank you, thank you, thank you for telling us the secret to getting rid of the connection suggestions…..

really, there should be a way to opt out from the mail home page

but as long as there is a way - I am happier than I was.

 
Comment by Tony

January 8th, 2009 at 12:45 pm

Thank you so much Nick. I was about to leave Yahoo for good because everytime they have a “supposed upgrade” It turns out pages hang, they load slower in general and are VERY ANNOYING! It is like Ebay trying to fix things that arent broken all the while, losing customers and wondering what next they can shove down our throats to make it better when ultimately, they just pizz off their regular solid base! Thanks for the shutoff instructions! Much appreciated! :)

 
 
Comment by Desire Michaels

December 22nd, 2008 at 8:06 am

Hey
What are you doing over Christmas break?

 
Comment by Jerry L

December 31st, 2008 at 8:03 pm

Dear Yahoo, Give it up ! Go Back ! It’s a disaster !
Nobody want’s it ! It don’t work ! It’s lame ! Our mail is screwed up !
Your driving us all away ! You made a blunder ! Face it ! Do the right thing now ! Sweep it under the rug before it ruins you ! You can still save face if you act now ! etc… etc.. etc..
In Plain English : ” Surrender Dorthy ” !
PLESAE PLEASE PLEASE ! Un-do it at the very least do the honorable thing and let us choose if we want it. PLEASE PLEASE !

Comment by beth

January 4th, 2009 at 9:12 pm

PALANZO

 
 
Comment by Godert van Diermen

January 1st, 2009 at 11:41 am

Yahoo is making changes.Switched my Yahoo.com to a foreign lanuage Yahoo without asking nor notifying.I burned my disk trying to restore.Thank you Yahoo.Now you have to confirm your to be sent email by copying unreadable letters and cyphrers and when you can not understand that garrbage your e_mail does not get out.Thay is what you call improvement.If Yahoo wants to stop spammers it appears they want to shut down the net all together.Very efficient indeed..

 
Comment by at

January 26th, 2009 at 6:10 pm

Would it be that hard to change the layout of how “contacts” work? It would be nice to be able to have all the “family” contacts under family instead of all the contacts showing up when you click contacts. like on your cell phone. you put your contacts under categories. that way when you are trying to send an email you don’t have to go through absolutely every contact you have. you could just click the category (business, work, family, friend) then only the people in the category would pop up

 
 
Comment by Kevin

December 15th, 2008 at 1:33 pm

Hey, is there a way for me to get in on this action? I watched the sceencast and can’t wait to give it a try. http://beta.mail.yahoo.com just gives me the same Yahoo! mail app that I have today.

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Comment by Scott K

December 15th, 2008 at 2:08 pm

I’d love to get in on this beta too!

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Comment by Jeff

December 15th, 2008 at 2:20 pm

How do we get this? And when, if we can’t now?

And Calendar - WHEN will calendar be INTEGRATED??? Please? :)

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Comment by leon

February 3rd, 2009 at 1:48 pm

what up jeff

 
 

December 15th, 2008 at 2:25 pm

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December 15th, 2008 at 3:02 pm

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Comment by JustMe

December 15th, 2008 at 3:58 pm

I don’t know what you are doing with this Beta upgrade but whatever it is it is horrible! It takes forever to open mail site, too many action ads which slow up opening, The “invite” boxes come up each time I sign in even though I said “no” initially. System does not respond fast when deleting messages/spam or moving to another message. Terrible upgrade! Thinking about moving my main email and going with Google or someone else who seems to have a better handle on their upgrades, sigh!

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Comment by longtime user

December 15th, 2008 at 6:37 pm

I agree. It might be enough to make me switch to Gmail. I’m bummed we weren’t allowed to opt into the beta instead of being forced into it. The connections thing is totally annoying.

Comment by Steve

December 16th, 2008 at 9:15 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)”

 
 
Comment by monk

December 15th, 2008 at 10:19 pm

It is a new service so it will not be necessarily as fast. This has not been deployed everywhere so yahoo probably has a little extra security and has not dedicated the full power of its servers to this. remember,ost people on yahoo mail are not testing this, but are using yahoo mail.so..
give it time

 
Comment by v

December 16th, 2008 at 5:12 pm

it’s ‘beta’ , meaning it’s a trial…..just delete beta …

 
 
Comment by Walter

December 15th, 2008 at 4:08 pm

All I really want is for my email to be secure. I am not interested in opening my email up to third party applications. I’m not sure I appreciate the extra interface level here. I’m a chronological sort of person. I handle my email in the order it arrives. I create folders to group my messages.

What exactly is this “My Connections”? Is it like a buddy or friends list? Do my connections have to accept my request before that feature (one I won’t be using) works here?

Thank you for the “honor” of selecting me to do this. So far, it isn’t growing on me.

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Comment by monk

December 15th, 2008 at 10:13 pm

if you have not set your new yahoo profile then you will not understand what the my connections refers to.
I would advise you to go to
profiles.yahoo.com and set up your new yahoo profile to understand

As for chronology, you should be able to turn off the ability to see connections emails grouped together and just have the traiditonal inbox, last in top of the box. Give it time, it is a new thing. It is not deployed everywhere.

 
 
Comment by Nikki

December 15th, 2008 at 4:14 pm

This blessed thing goes back and forth between the new Welcome screen and the old one.

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Comment by Nitin

December 15th, 2008 at 4:52 pm

can you have a followup on email messages? linked with calenders?

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December 15th, 2008 at 5:04 pm

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Comment by haroon

December 15th, 2008 at 6:44 pm

when are you going to start doing imap?

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Comment by Fed Up

December 15th, 2008 at 10:29 pm

haroon:

Yahoo can say that it has IMAP… as long as you use the Zimbra client to access it… 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 access it. Could you imagine Google doing something like this? I can’t….

GMail even lets you use a range of clients for IMAP, and which are either Windows or PowerPC/Intel compatible as necessary: (Given that Zimbra runs on Intel-Macs only, that’s a problem that GMail users don’t have to deal with. Not everyone has the latest and greatest.)

Outlook Express (Windows)
Outlook 2003 (Windows)
Outlook 2007 (Windows)
Apple Mail 2
Apple Mail 3 (Leopard)
Windows Mail
Thunderbird 2
and others….

Pretty much sums things up doesn’t it?

Comment by Jeff

December 16th, 2008 at 6:19 am

How much did Google pay you for that ad?

Comment by Fed Up

December 16th, 2008 at 6:56 am

I can’t believe that you think that this was an ad… I’m comparing Zimbra IMAP to GMail IMAP. Yes, I’m doing it on a Yahoo Mail Blog. Where else am I supposed to do it? Am I supposed to go on the GMail Blog instead?

Actually, I’m very interested what your opinion is too, so when you’re done making accusations, please share.

 
 
 
 
Comment by Blick

December 15th, 2008 at 6:48 pm

How can I get rid of the bothersome Connections junk. I don’t want to see it, don’t want to use it. It has no value since my 360 contacts have all moved to Multiply or Facebook.

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Comment by monk

December 15th, 2008 at 10:15 pm

Should be able to undo the connections aspect with the click of the button

Comment by Steve

December 16th, 2008 at 9:24 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)”

Comment by Rhondy

December 19th, 2008 at 11:29 pm

Unchecking that option DOES NOT WORK….I have done it and still the connection suggestions are there….this is so annoying!

 
 
 
 

December 15th, 2008 at 7:00 pm

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Comment by srikanth

December 15th, 2008 at 8:05 pm

its nice to hear updates from yahoo buy still spam .. is on do something

http://techveno.com

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Comment by Fed Up

December 15th, 2008 at 10:31 pm

How about giving these same power users, or plus users, real IMAP instead of being stuck getting it through Zimbra?

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Comment by peter

December 15th, 2008 at 10:50 pm

Why are the compose and reply fields the size of postage stamps??
I can see at most two words while I try to type a message. Is this supposed to be an improvement?

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December 16th, 2008 at 12:03 am

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December 16th, 2008 at 1:01 am

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Comment by Mark

December 16th, 2008 at 2:16 am

Why no love for UK-based power users?
Are the new beta features US-only at the moment?

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Comment by Gabriel

December 16th, 2008 at 9:19 am

Just wanted to second that motion!

 
 

December 16th, 2008 at 2:32 am

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December 16th, 2008 at 3:05 am

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Comment by Peter

December 16th, 2008 at 3:55 am

If you really want to improve the mail, please add a way to change the subject line and also attachments or add tags to the mail. This would make searching so much easier.

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Comment by Celeste Achterhof

December 30th, 2008 at 4:33 am

Amen!! I would love to be able to tag email by subject so I could subcatagorize my newsletters I receive. Would much rather be able to do that than have my email prioritized…I work chronologically so this new feature just shuts down Opera time and time and time again, making it very frustrating to try to get through my email. I may have to reopen Opera twenty times to get through fifty emails…It is a pain, and didn’t happen until you ‘improved’ it. Perhaps folks should be allowed to opt in instead of having to opt out?

 
 

December 16th, 2008 at 5:08 am

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Comment by Ken Leebow

December 16th, 2008 at 6:19 am

All the “flashy” and annoying advertising has kept me away from using Ymail. It’s very distracting.

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Comment by hahnarama

December 16th, 2008 at 7:01 am

Don’t get excited……I received my Power User invite about as month ago, and I do not have access to the new applications.

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Comment by Lori

December 16th, 2008 at 7:26 am

And how exactly do we tell it that we don’t want connections “with a click of a button”? I couldn’t care less about all that stuff…most of it gets turned off by the firewall at work anyway.

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Comment by Chuck

December 16th, 2008 at 7:48 am

There are too many ads that pop up. One is the shell ad, and I am unable to remove it. Right now…I feel some of the changes made are not user friendly.

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Comment by Firefox

December 16th, 2008 at 9:29 am

Has all this been tested on the upcoming Firefox 3.1 and Firefox 3.2? We all know how long it took before Yahoo fixed the problems with Yahoo Mail and Firefox 3.0 earlier this year. Please don’t have a repeat of that mess, test now in Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 and Beta 3 next year in February.

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December 16th, 2008 at 9:45 am

[...] Yahoo announced its new Smarter Inbox, which adds a whole bunch of social networking stuff to your email account. I haven’t used [...]

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Comment by Bobbie

December 16th, 2008 at 10:19 am

Love the video! Please present more videos on the blog!

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Comment by Mike

December 16th, 2008 at 10:30 am

Yahoo Mail Enhancement — I would love the ability to track “read receipts” similar to Outlook. Is that a feature already I don’t know about or something that can be added?

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Comment by inez

December 16th, 2008 at 10:31 am

I think that so far it has slooooooowed my mail almost to a crawl

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Comment by jen

December 16th, 2008 at 1:58 pm

what about view mail by conversation? (not subject in alphabetical order) is this ever going to be done?!

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Comment by Farshid

December 16th, 2008 at 2:33 pm

Hi

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Comment by leroy slater

December 16th, 2008 at 2:53 pm

I really would like something more powerful then just ’spam’, how about an anonymous way of sending a message back to the sender. Clog their sever.

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Comment by v

December 16th, 2008 at 5:10 pm

Comment by leroy slater

December 16th, 2008 at 2:53 pm

I really would like something more powerful then just ’spam’, how about an anonymous way of sending a message back to the sender. Clog their sever.
I LOVE IT …..would be nice if we could…lol

 
 
Comment by concerned

December 16th, 2008 at 5:30 pm

I understand the need for “upgrading” but I have been unable to access my mail and mail folders for the past 30 to 36 hours. I have written and called customer service, and everyone has been very polite. Yet, I still cannot access my mail. If I opt out at this point, as Steve mentioned, I fear that I might mess things up even more and possibly loose some of my stored material. I can only hope that in the course of social “improvements”, primary mail functions are not lost!

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Comment by Gloria

December 17th, 2008 at 12:16 am

I dont know how i got here in this new email thing, I dont like it how do I go back to my old email, Ive tried everything and I cant get back I’m going crazy here. I dont like the layout and the way it looks. Please help me somebody.

 
 

December 16th, 2008 at 6:05 pm

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December 16th, 2008 at 6:36 pm

[...] least according to the video of the enhanced mail application video Yahoo posted on December 15 at: http://www.ymailblog.com/blog/2008/12/take-a-tour-of-yahoo-mails-new-smarter-inbox/ . It should draw new customers just for these features [...]

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Comment by steve lowery

December 16th, 2008 at 6:36 pm

it looks good but i like outlook much better be nice to yahoo use outlook web acess as their webmail program one day

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Comment by Luke

December 16th, 2008 at 6:57 pm

This is sooooooooooooooooooo cool!

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Comment by Luke

December 16th, 2008 at 6:58 pm

awesome

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Comment by clare

December 16th, 2008 at 10:28 pm

this sucks! it takes FOREVER to open up your mail. in fact, its been 10 minutes, and it STILL says loading! how do i get rid of this new thing? so i can start seeing my emails!

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Comment by Bruiser

December 16th, 2008 at 10:43 pm

I try and disable this stupid Social Networking crap, and it’s still there. This blows. I can’t wait until I finish migrating to Gmail.

Why does it have this crappy “Add Connections” section on my Welcome page when I’m trying to opt out of that crap. I didn’t sign up for Yahoo so I could have a psuedo-Facebook page.

You guys are TOOLS!!!

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Comment by Norbert

December 17th, 2008 at 12:51 am

I’m not interested at all in Social Networking.
And I don’t like to be forced into it.
Please let me manage my mails in peace!

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Comment by Don

December 17th, 2008 at 4:42 am

I vote NO!!! The more you keep “improving” it, the more you get away from what I’m looking for - a simple, easy to use e-mail application. I’m not looking for the world’s most powerful do-everything application. If that’s what Yahoo! Mail turns into, I’m sure I can find another single-purpose provider.

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Comment by Joe Allen Doty

December 17th, 2008 at 6:37 am

This paragraph is a lie: {We are conducting a very limited beta test right now of the open applications in Yahoo! Mail. Only our power users, who were invited into the limited beta, can test out the new applications at beta.mail.yahoo.com. We will be extending this beta test to additional users over the coming months.} I did not choose to be involved in this program and I seem to be stuck with it!

The stupid “Connections” program refers to some of the addresses in my Address Book are real people. People are personally sending me newspaper news updates nor are they sending me updates from companies in which I have an interest.

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Comment by Joe Allen Doty

December 17th, 2008 at 6:40 am

You idiots have also messed up the “buttons’ on my Yahoo! Mail Plus page. Even the “Options” link will NOT load so I can filter emails to be placed in special file folders.

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Comment by Joe Allen Doty

December 17th, 2008 at 6:41 am

I pay extra for the Yahoo! Mail Plus. You people playing around with your beta programs are interfering with what I pay for.

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Comment by Fed Up

December 17th, 2008 at 7:02 am

I agree with Randy, Don, and Joe….

These apps are features in search of a need and want…. I mean, it seems that Yahoo’s in a bubble about this… Was there really a rallying cry for “Friendster/Facebook” on an email page?

Get client-agnostic IMAP working instead please….

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Comment by Michaelh

December 17th, 2008 at 7:08 am

I also vote No No No to beta. I’m retired and am on the computer 9 hour’s a day handling health matters, money, family, etc.
A while back I was snagged into the “new Beta” mail and everything screeched to a standstill !!! It wouldn’t work, at all!

In Yahoo.com you have the finest website on the internet. Please, don’t toss that away with beta! Many, many people depend on your fine website. BETA WOULD TRULY RUIN IT.

Signed,
Been there, done that
NO NO NO to BETA

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Comment by Mel

December 17th, 2008 at 7:18 am

I am a power user and was not invited into the beta testing. :(

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Comment by concerned

December 17th, 2008 at 8:08 am

Although I finally regained email access after 2 days without it, it is working only in Mozilla. In Internet Explorer, I get a message that “the server is not responding, please try after sometime.” As others have mentioned, I also use Yahoo! Mail Plus for work and personal business much, much more than for socializing. The socializing stuff, particularly the darn buttons that I keep removing, is really aggravating. I do *not* want a facebook type site - just a tool to efficiently send, receive, and store mail. And I was *not* asked to participate in Beta; rather, the changes just keep happening, together with periods of non-access, problems using autocomplete for categories in my address book, and periodic difficulty in downloading. Please give those of us who use (and pay for) Yahoo mail primarily for business an opportunity to *Opt Out* of the distracting Connections material and an opportunity to be protected from the constant changes and disruptions of basic service components!

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Comment by ChrisP

December 17th, 2008 at 8:19 am

The only issue that I have is that you need a calender tab within the new yahoo mail. I use the calender daily and find that if I am in the new beta I have to surf out of my yahoo mail to get there.

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Comment by Wes

December 17th, 2008 at 8:28 am

it suxs. damn attachments still don’t work right. but they can add all this other crap!!!!

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Comment by Joe Allen Doty

December 17th, 2008 at 8:40 am

It is 10:40 Central Standard Time when I write this. I even have that in my computer program, too. But, this program did not add last my comment below the last message posted by someone else.

It’s more like this with Yahoo idiot programmers: If you did not know about this and therefore did not opt out in advance, you unknowingly accepted our invitation to join any way. This is like getting something in your USPS mail box at home which you never ordered in the first place and they tell you that if you don’t send the item back to them, they will send you more of the same. But, with the Postal Service’s law, if something you did not order in the first place is sent to you and it is worth keeping, you don’t have to pay for it and that company cannot legally collect money from you either.

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Comment by Joe Allen Doty

December 17th, 2008 at 8:43 am

I do not use any internet messenger programs. I don’t like to do internet chats. My legal name is in my Yahoo ID Profile and even in my email address. If someone want’s to communicate with me, they can call me on the phone instead.

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December 17th, 2008 at 8:46 am

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Comment by Joe Allen Doty

December 17th, 2008 at 9:00 am

The head line of this forum should be “We have found that OUR Beta Yahoo! Mail’s new smarter inbox makes our paying customers looker dumber than we are! And we know-it-alls are proud of that, too!”

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Comment by clint

December 17th, 2008 at 9:09 am

Hell I havn’t been abto access my yahoo mail for three days now WHATS UP WITH THAT ?????????????????????

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Comment by james

December 17th, 2008 at 10:24 am

For a while now thumbnail photos in Yahoo email take forever to load. Sometimes the email itself. Why aren’t these things being fixed before all of this new stuff is rolled out? Most of the new features I would never use.

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December 17th, 2008 at 11:23 am

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Comment by Frank N. Stein

December 17th, 2008 at 12:37 pm

Are you going to try to please your customers and offer a PLAIN VANILLA E-MAIL account. You know, for those of us who just want an e-mail account not tied to an internet provider. All these ‘connections’ look like an easy way for spammers and viruses to bother you. Some of us don’t spam our friends with pictures either.

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Comment by Kurt

December 17th, 2008 at 12:46 pm

Just wanted to say how I look forward to the updates you bring to your mail service. The New Yahoo! Mail is great and these recent updates make it only better. These new updates offer up quite a bit of potential in the future. I look forward to utilizing these tools once they are all in place.

Thank you and keep up the good work.

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Comment by Cyndi Richards

December 17th, 2008 at 1:35 pm

I am no luddite, but the fact is that most of us “boomers” (and we ARE legion) were not weaned on computer technology, and appreciate USER-FRIENDLY services above ALL else.

That is the main reason why I chose Yahoo for my primary e-mail (as opposed to AOL, G-mail, etc.) and even chose to pay extra for the premium package.

It served me well for a long time.

Then came the recent profile “upgrade” fiascos (360, etc.).

Now I am getting headaches with this “smart” (?) inbox nonsense.

SHEESH!

If I wanted a Facebook/MySpace arrangement, I would have gone to them, but I do NOT need that superfluous Gen Y type stuff anymore than I need a camera, mp3 player, word processor, pinball machine, microwave, etc. on my cell phone.

I just want reliable, user-friendly e-mail service from Yahoo. This is what I paid for, and it seems reasonable to expect to get it.

I must concur with the sentiments expressed by a substantial number of voices here. Customers (at least those of us who PAY for service) would be best served by Yahoo focusing on their core competencies and lighten up on all this “new & improved” (?) nonsense. Leave the “one-upsmanship” to somebody else and concentrate on what you folks used to do best. That’s the “secret” to longevity.

If it ain’t broke, DON’T “fix it”!

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Comment by Mz.Me

December 18th, 2008 at 10:36 am

Time 4 change was’nt ment 4 yahoo. i feel the same way you do.

 
 
Comment by Fed Up

December 17th, 2008 at 2:16 pm

I completely agree with Cyndi. Well said!

If we’re lucky, Yahoo will do something to keep itself from going off the deep end and becoming the MySpace of email…. but maybe not…

“It’s not a bug… It’s a feature!”

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Comment by I Tried Twice

December 17th, 2008 at 2:59 pm

I tried the yahoo mail beta twice and thought it sucked! Did not liked how it set up or the features that it had. My opinion Liam can go jump over a cliff. Who wants him for stationary. Beta is more difficult to work than the normal mail. I went back to the normal mail and I am staying there. I have my files set up, no advertising problems, and interfacing with messaging. It might be old but it is true and faithful without any problems. :0) Just because something is new does not make it better!

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Comment by Goldie

December 17th, 2008 at 4:12 pm

As of today I’ve lost the ability to open messages as new tabs. This is on a Mac running Firefox 3. Tabs work fine in every other app & also did with Yahoo until today. Being able to open 10 new messages in 10 tabs & then work through them was excellent. Now when I try that the message just opens in the main window. Anyone know a way around this? I’ve been through the options & account preferences & can’t find any mention of it.

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Comment by Mark

December 17th, 2008 at 7:43 pm

I have a place for all this notification, feeds and social junk - facebook.

I have a place for all this news, smart feeds, and blogging junk - MY YAHOO.

What’s the point of adding all this clutter to my inbox? Isn’t a spam folder enough junk for on mail box?

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Comment by J.F.

December 18th, 2008 at 11:00 am

since this change I cannot get directly to my mail.
when I click on “Mail” it takes me to a blank page and says “Done”.
Refresh does not help.

Quit messing with Yahoo Mail!!!!

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Comment by Yes, me!

December 18th, 2008 at 11:23 am

I use Yahoo MAIL and have been considering changing to Mail Plus so that I can use POP forwarding to my OE inbox and changing all my Groups mail to my Y MAIL address. I want to eliminate my current primary address and have already started transitioning to Y MAIL - please not the capitalisation by intent. My need is for a e-MAIL provider with good spam filtering and virus protection as an added layer before mail gets to my computer which also has AV software installed. That is why I like Yahoo MAIL. As to Connections? I do not care diddly who the people I communicate with have as friends - it is NOT my business! Just as it is NOT theirr business to know who my friends are!!!! Unless I choose to tell them. Some of us still like to keep a modicum of privacy and independence in our lives. It is really scary that people now are being convinced that everyone needs to know exactly where everyone is at any moment in time. UGH. Are we becoming the Borg? Is resistance futile????

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Comment by Kim

December 18th, 2008 at 7:47 pm

Yahoo, what have you done now! I have to agree and say no to your new “beta” Yahoo Mail. If I want to socialize I will got to MySpace or Facebook. I don’t need or want to bring this type of thing into my email. I would much rather see you integrate the Calendar within Yahoo Mail or increase the MB for attachments than give us this silly new beta. Please give me back my Yahoo Mail!!!

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Comment by brian

December 19th, 2008 at 9:09 am

Thank the gods I found this, I hate this connections junk! I think the most retarded think (besides texting) is chatting online. UGH! Pick up the phone, have human contact and quit avoiding the human race.

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Comment by India

December 19th, 2008 at 10:40 am

Does anyone else see the irony that these new features are being rolled out, but the feed reader in yahoo mail was taken away? Its especially funny that Yahoo is touting “connections” when one of my favorite ways to connect is with RSS feeds, which I now do through google reader.

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Comment by MadandConfused

December 19th, 2008 at 8:19 pm

whats up with the shrinking To and CC: spaces

and I cant open up attachments even the ones i sent

I have to download and save first ???

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December 20th, 2008 at 9:05 am

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Comment by Patsy Schirmer

December 21st, 2008 at 3:41 pm

I HATE IT! Give me back my old email or I am leaving this behind!

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Comment by LATaurus

December 22nd, 2008 at 9:47 pm

For the love of all things holy - please, please, please provide a way to opt out of that ANNOYING AS HELL “connection suggestion” BS!!!!!

Not all of us are teenagers who think every single site we visit function like Facebook or Myspace.

When I want “connections” I know where to go to get them.

What I want from Yahoo MAIL, plain and simple, is MAIL, like the name implies.

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Comment by Scott J. Smith

December 23rd, 2008 at 11:38 am

Checked it out. Not all that exciting. Any way of turning the “Connections” feature off, including getting it off the home page, or making the “Inbox” the default folder that loads, so I don’t even have to look at that?

More frilly stuff nobody cares about. Where’s a working Calendar, Tasks and Notes people have been asking about for years?

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Comment by Scott

December 23rd, 2008 at 12:16 pm

Checked it out. Not interesting. Went back to the non-beta version for now. When the beta is rolled out to everyone, I’ll just disable the Connections feature in options.

I wonder if Yahoo even bothered to see how big current members’ address books are. At 10 Connections at a time, it would take me days to get everything set up (unless I just did the “Invite All”) option.

It doesn’t say what the “Invite” does, especially to non-Yahoo members. Are they invited to Join Yahoo or what? What do they see? What benefit to they get? Why would I want to invite them, if I know they’re comfortable with their own email provider, ISP and social networks?

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Comment by =bg=

December 23rd, 2008 at 10:19 pm

Could not care less about this social connections stuff. never facebooked or myspaced..never will. I use mail to……………….(wait for it)……………………………………………………………..send mail. That’s all.

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December 25th, 2008 at 7:35 pm

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Comment by MrData

December 27th, 2008 at 6:50 am

This new “smarter” email is sooo smart that it blocks me from deleting any emails or allow me to mark them as Spam… My email inbox is filling up and I can do nothing about it. Let me opt out of this really stupid email feature!!!!!!

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Comment by MrData

December 27th, 2008 at 7:06 am

I found share my updates button. I deselected it. It asks Are You Sure. I click on Ok and ABSOLUTELY NOTHING HAPPENS. If I click on Cancel it cancels the window and returns to the previous selections.

This is a really Stupid enhancement for a mailbox.

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Comment by Charlie

December 28th, 2008 at 9:08 pm

Please forgive me if this question is not appropriate here, but I have a problem that is driving me crazy.
At one time I selected a portion of an email text and highlighted it with red color. The balance of the text was restored to black. Now, whenever I create a new email, the default rext color is red. I cant seem to find a permanant change that will allow a return to black.
Can anyone help me, or please direct me to the correct forum for this type of question?

Thanks and Happy Holidays to all……………..

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Comment by phil

December 29th, 2008 at 9:46 am

the space for displaying your email is too small.and how do you get away from having to sign in tw0 times.

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Comment by Chris

December 30th, 2008 at 12:51 pm

Still waiting for an inbox audio player (like Hotmail) so you can listen to sound files from right within your inbox. This would especially be helpful for those who use Vonage (or other broadband phone) and have voice mails sent to their email. I’ve been suggesting this for months.

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Comment by Raven

December 31st, 2008 at 11:57 am

Whether people want to use Connections or not, there should still be a graphic, or some kind of indicator next to each email in your Inbox if the person is in your Contacts list. Right now, people have to manually scan each email to see if it’s something they wanna read or not.

As is, I have no interest whatsoever in using Connections. There needs to be privacty settings within Connectiosn to control what people see. I don’t want anyone knowing each and every post, etc. that I make online, it’s just too much information.

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Comment by Jerry L

December 31st, 2008 at 7:50 pm

Raven, Your absolutely right ! And that’s just a small piece of an even bigger picture of the many many problems and wrongs with this whole new yahoo blunder. Everyone on this blog is unhappy with this crap they forced on us that nobody want’s. I’ve been all over these blogs in every catagory on this so called new yahoo and there is not one single positive message from anyone. That in itself tells how much of a disaster it is.
If yahoo has any brains at all in charge there they will quickly do away with this disaster and try to sweep it under the rug as much as possible if they can. Don’t worry folks, I have a feeling we won’t suffer to long this time. This has been a HUGE screw-up and I think they’ll wise up before the loose us all for ever…………….just my opinion folks !

 
 
Comment by Jerry L

December 31st, 2008 at 7:37 pm

This whole friend VIP thing is so LAME ! and jr high school’ish.
Did any of the idiot’s at Yahoo think about how someone might feel when they found out they were not a VIP ? huh ? did they ? NO I think obviously not. The whole thing is so stupid and nobody want’s this crap anyway. So many problems with all the new changes anyway it’s overwhelming.
There gonna chase us all away and fast. I can’t even send or recieve mail period ! that’s how messed up this whole thing is. Angry ? Ya’h you bet I’m angry. If they don’t do away with all this crap by next week I’m giving up my yahoo account completely and going to the trouble of establishing a new mail service. AT A DIFFERENT SITE ! Do you hear me Yahoo ? geeeeeeez what a screw up !
AND ! This pick and choose social network crap borders on Communism

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Comment by LB

January 2nd, 2009 at 2:39 am

Is there a known issue with not being able to turn off the connections feature in Firefox 3.0.5? I’ve unchecked the box and saved the changes but am still getting these connections suggestion for everyone that I’ve sent email to in the last 5 years. I didn’t sign up for any beta testing, this just appeared and I can’t get rid of it.

Don’t use any of this stuff either and am not interested in it. Just another lesson in “you get what you pay for” I guess.

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Comment by stan

January 2nd, 2009 at 7:21 am

Why am I being penalized because a virus created a problem on my PC that forced me to re-format my harddrtive.
I wound up with the new AT&T/Yahoo system which I don’t like—at all.
If “other” AT&T / SL users can have the old sytem for their use, why can’t I have it also, if I want it ?–
How about an answer that I’ll like >>>??

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Comment by Ritesh

January 3rd, 2009 at 9:01 pm

How do I get this on my mail account ?

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Comment by john b.

January 4th, 2009 at 8:49 am

Look I’m 68 yrs. of age & new user just getting in the groove now ya
wanna chg. to what BETA WHO/? I’ll wait awhile but I hate pop ups
or little silly faces & especially that advertising pop ups on the home page whata a pain in the butt final!! Ck. with me in2010?

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Comment by judith

January 4th, 2009 at 7:44 pm

yes i would like to comment on this yahoo crap. why do you think you are doing all the people justice in changing thing’s the way you want to. i took the tour of it and all i have to say is they need to put a stick of dynamite under it and blow it AWAY!!!!!!!!!!! you need to take some lesson’s on how to understand it. JAL from BLOOMSBURG,pa.

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Comment by margo

January 6th, 2009 at 11:30 am

With all these “improvements” my incoming message disappears when I wish to reply! And, when I write a message, then attach a file, the message I just wrote disappears. Please, please go back to simple email

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Comment by Maxine

January 8th, 2009 at 7:36 am

I was shocked to see that Yahoo forced us all to get involved with the beta on their home page. What is is worse, when I click on the mail icon, it seems to disappear. They suggested that the following: Under “Browsing”, clear the “Enable third-party Internet browser
extensions (requires restart)” check box. By doing this, it allows phishing. Apparently Yahoo isn’t looking after the interests of the people who use their service. .

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Comment by G

January 14th, 2009 at 6:11 am

I’ve been using the new version of mail for a while now w/o many problems. However for 2 days now my inbox is showing 3 messages unread. I can’t find them though. I’ve sorted by unread and they still don’t show up. I’ve also tried marking all messages unread and it get hung up at 10% and never finishes. I’ve also tried marking all messages unread and then marking them all read again. It finishes the process but I still see 3 messages unread in my inbox. I’ve tried logging on different machines and I see the same problem. Let me know if you have seen this before.

thx

G

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Comment by Kevin

January 14th, 2009 at 12:15 pm

Why am I still getting “connection suggestions” that are people I do not know. Yahoo says these are people I e-mail frequently, which is a blatant lie. I’m disappointed that a company like Yahoo would stoop to such desperation.

Plus, when I go to my list of contact suggestions and hit “remove”, I get a pop up window saying this person will not be suggested to be again. I delete every name I ever see. yet, when I log back in to Yahoo mail, I see those same names again.

Yahoo, this new “feature” stinks. If people want it, at least make it optional. And stop suggesting people I don’t know and telling me I communicate frequently!

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Comment by trainer07756

January 15th, 2009 at 3:41 pm

I have just read all the feedback about what is instored…. I wonder if all the feedback is falling on deaf ears. I love YAHOO the old way… IF ANYONES LOOKING AT THESE !!!!!!!!
())>–%-

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Comment by t.d.s.sundharam

January 16th, 2009 at 4:51 am

The Cellular Nutrition a remedy forthe weight relaed health challenges

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Comment by Aldo

January 16th, 2009 at 7:12 pm

what I DON’T need or want is to have this stupid purple page popping up even when I’m already signed in to Yahoo, which includes MAIL, Yahoo!folks!

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Comment by richardson

January 21st, 2009 at 2:18 pm

so I’m logged in and reading my mail. I click on Yahoo! to do something and decide ‘hey, richie, lets look at mail again’ so I click on mail and I get that purple page asking me to sign up or sign in if I already have an account. Why o Yahoo! why?

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Comment by hari

January 21st, 2009 at 3:19 pm

my yahoomail box and voicemail is lost

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Comment by Ken Johnson

January 24th, 2009 at 7:48 am

I disabled the stoooopid connections thing in my mail options, so my problem is solved. I won’t have to look at it anymore, unless you “yahoos” (How appropriate. Look that up in your Funk and Wagnals.) come up with a “better idea.” You yahoos need to look at your feedback. It looks like it’s about 100 to 1 negative. You need to remove it for your own good. It’s making you look stupid, and causing you to loose business. Sounds like you guys have a really good plan if you’re trying to bankrupt your company.

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Comment by Pavlo

January 25th, 2009 at 1:56 pm

PLease, PLEASE PLEASE give us a way to turn off this damn Connection Suggestions! I hate it and it ’s annoying!

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Comment by hippiechik37

January 26th, 2009 at 6:00 pm

Get off the meth and quit wigging on the email. Take the electronics apart of something. How much crap can you fit. Congrats you did succeed with filling the page.

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Comment by hippiechik37

January 26th, 2009 at 6:05 pm

why does everyone have to take something so simple and make it so not. All we want to do is send an email. I dont have the time to add some stationary, draw a picture, send my 12hours video. how about email, photo, call a mobile, a computer, cam and my gosh what more do you need. By the time you guys stop fing up the system we will have to train to call the moon, but not anyone is there. DO YOU UNDERSTAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh and do you think maybe we can send to all the mobile instead of having to do major investigation to know who the mobile company is first. if i wanted to do all that i could call the person and have not any need for the fing email in the first place

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Comment by EDDIE

February 1st, 2009 at 7:25 pm

I DO NOT WANT THE (CONNECTION SUGGESTIONS) THAT KEEP POPING UP ON MY YAHOO MAIL INBOX PAGE.
HOW CAN I STOP THEM ?

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Comment by naem_mm

February 4th, 2009 at 10:07 am

yahoo chat mail

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Comment by susan

February 4th, 2009 at 4:21 pm

This completely sucks. I’m going to have to change my homepage and email address to get something I can live with. What the hell were you thinking??

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Comment by susan

February 4th, 2009 at 4:29 pm

Buy stock in Yahoo, now that it’s pretty cheap and vote the stock. Every time you vote, remember how the current bunch of yahoos keeps trying to improve things by being more intrusive and making the site run slower. Remember the intrusive advertising on the web videos, all the cookies they’ve implanted, how when you search something, no information comes up if the website isn’t a selling partner, how you hated the “improvements” to your email. Yahoo management, get it togethter before we decide to vote you off the island.

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Comment by dan

February 5th, 2009 at 7:02 pm

i finally got rid of the connection suggestons. mail,options,general preferences, uncheck connections box. then i had to click on the red yahoo mail at the top left of mail page for it to work. I tried to save and then close my browser and open back up to yah mail but the connections were still there. Only until i clicked the yahoo mail upper left hand corner did it work. hope it helps

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Comment by dan

February 5th, 2009 at 7:05 pm

its in mail options, general preferences uncheck connection suggestions

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Comment by dan

February 5th, 2009 at 7:06 pm

its in mail options, general preferences uncheck connection suggestions
It finally worked for me

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Comment by Chris

February 6th, 2009 at 5:48 am

I’d like to suggest a sort of “Favorite Folders” pane at the top left. Similar to Microsoft Outlook. Make so only your created mail folders scroll up and down that way if you have allot of folders you don’t have to scroll all the way back to the top to get back to your inbox, sent, spam, trash, contacts, calendar, etc…

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Comment by David

February 7th, 2009 at 3:22 am

This change adds nothing that I want, and it takes away two things that I value - the icons to show if a contact is online, and the keyboard shortcuts. Why take away the shortcuts?

Not happy.

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Comment by William

February 9th, 2009 at 7:06 am

Although the new look is forthcoming removing items that people use everyday is not helping with the change. In fact change, in my book, is to developing the icons already there to work even better than before.

Not Happy…

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Comment by William

February 9th, 2009 at 7:17 am

Oh yeah… you took out the yahoo abuse link… if there is one where did you guys hide it… I can’t find it. I like to report an a buse address who claims to be the IRS, and If I remember correctly wasn’t that at one time aginst the LAW???? You took yahoo mail, which was “once” simple to use and complicated it — that’s something the US Gov., does.
Christ! Get a grip!

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February 14th, 2009 at 8:03 am

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Comment by John

February 14th, 2009 at 8:10 pm

What is up with that pop up that says(want to view that email up there)If I didn’t I wouldn’t have clicked on it in the first place.What is up with all these pop-ups and advertisements.Remimds me of television and I stopped watching that.

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February 18th, 2009 at 4:08 pm

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Comment by jose f.

February 20th, 2009 at 9:47 am

Buen Programa Que Hisieron Para Yahoo 25 Aniversario

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Comment by Cheryl

February 22nd, 2009 at 7:41 am

Well, once again Yahoo has decided they know what new stuff their customers want cluttering up their Yahoo pages. If you just had to add the Profile/Connections stuff why not give us an option of turning it off.

I hate it. Don’t want my connections invited to anything, nor do I want to look at them on my mail page. I want my news box moved back up where I can see it.

I have been a lifelong Yahoo user but once again, I’m tempted to move onto another program.

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Comment by Cheryl

February 22nd, 2009 at 7:46 am

God Bless you Steve! :) This did work for me and made all that crap go away. Be sure and click SAVE after you make the changes. Thanks, Steve.

Comment by Steve

December 16th, 2008 at 9:24 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)”

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Comment by Big Bob

February 22nd, 2009 at 10:20 am

What or who is the little guy that hides behind where it says Yahoo Mail? It also says How Secure Are You. You can only see the top part of him.If you sign out and sign back in it is not there.

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Comment by Speetaman Arjani

February 23rd, 2009 at 3:16 am

This new Yahoo Inbox Mail has become a PERMANENT PAIN IN THE BACK SIDE. It refuses to open and even when the e-mail opens finally after I have a nap it will not open completely and this new fangled idea of giving the names on the top and the pics at the bottom so if one wants to download a certain pic one has to go up and down like a bloody yoyo all the time if there are many pics to download. Please revert back to the mail you had about a couple of months back as that was easier to handle. I have switched over many contacts to my other e-mail addresses so that I can now open the mails at maybe 1000 times faster than YAHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Comment by LIONFANMAN

February 24th, 2009 at 4:03 pm

Why is it when I send an email I’ve recieved from someone else the next party can’t open it? I’m old and dumb and need detailed instructions.

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Comment by vader_for_hire

February 26th, 2009 at 6:30 pm

Suggestion topic: productivity: make yahoo mail its own my yahoo tab page

an app that allows for yahoo mail to be its own tabbed page in my yahoo. this would make my yahoo more of a “central hub” for a user. also, with the secure use of a dedicated browser widget, my yahoo would be come a very capable desktop widget productivity app.

this by no mean implies doing away with stand lone yahoo mail!
thanks.

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Comment by wahid

February 27th, 2009 at 4:15 am

all

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Comment by Luke

March 4th, 2009 at 3:17 am

Congratulations, yahoo. I didn’t think you could add something to the inbox more pointless and annoying than the connections box but the new chat box takes the cake.
If I wanted to chat to people I’d install your chat program.
So much for a simple email account. Looks like it’s time to change to gmail.

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Comment by Ellen

March 4th, 2009 at 9:20 pm

hi luke,..ur right

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Comment by Sairexes

March 10th, 2009 at 4:20 am

The time I got this connection thingy… the chatbox feature won’t show up…

I dont really love this feature but the chatbox is really cooL!
so hopefully my chatbox will come back!

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Comment by ali

March 10th, 2009 at 9:50 pm

wellcome now.

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Comment by Chris

March 17th, 2009 at 4:47 am

I have been suggesting the following features for almost the past year…

Add an inbox audio player (like Hotmail).
Add a “favorite folders pane” that is locked in place at the top (like Microsoft Outlook).
Ability to BCC without putting yourself in the TO field.
New customizable color schemes/themes.
Attaching multiple files at once to outgoing messages.
Ability to mark the importance of an outgoing message.
Request a read receipt on outgoing messages.
Creating sub folders within folders.
Ability to attach an old message to a new outgoing message.

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Comment by mark

March 18th, 2009 at 4:54 am

I’m interested in meeting a woman to start a friendship with and that will lead to a serious relationship. A woman that will be my best friend, confidant, companion, partner, wife, mother and the best lover in the world.

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Comment by Jehad

March 18th, 2009 at 6:06 am

i get the message “”the server is not responding, please try after sometime” whenever i try to open the inbox.

i got this mssg today, yesterday was ok.

please, return everything to its original status!

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Comment by Sick of This JUNK

March 18th, 2009 at 8:46 pm

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Comment by jenny

March 18th, 2009 at 9:01 pm

the connection suggestions panel cannot be more annoying! the unchecking of connections under general preferences DOES NOT WORK! i’m so disappointed at yahoo mail. i used to love it…

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Comment by Isabel

April 11th, 2009 at 7:50 pm

I think this is a great ideal espically for those who need to get in and out or one the run. Any one who is really not familiar with computers espicialy the our senior citizens, who are looking to find a job, self learning even those who are kind of behind with the new technology which is out today on computers!!!! But I do disagree with beta would ruin everything!!!! But lets get email working right for those who are having trouble or will in the future lets upgrade it then we can go on!!!!

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Comment by Imran

April 15th, 2009 at 9:14 pm

I think the yahoo smart inbox is a great idea. They should integrate delicious along with flickr and flixster in their inbox. Yahoo notepad should open within the yahoo mail interface rather than on a seperate screen

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Comment by Tazee

April 22nd, 2009 at 5:13 pm

I have rejected every connection suggestion from my address book. Now the !@#$% thing is suggesting people I don’t even know. What’s going on?

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Comment by Kissem

April 23rd, 2009 at 11:42 am

I hate being interrupted constantly by a program telling me I should do something just for the sake of doing it. I’m not from Generation X, I do NOT have the attention span of a gnat, and I certainly don’t like programmers or their programs that tell me I should or treat me like I do. I can REMEMBER ALL of my friends and ALL of my subscriptions and I don’t use an address book AT ALL. If I want to chat, I go to a chat room. If I want to send an email, I open my email. If I want to talk, I pick up the phone. If I want to instant message, I go to messenger (version 8.1 THANK YOU http://www.oldversions.com!) I don’t want a scroll down menu when I click compose, OBVIOUSLY I want to use the communication method the program was designed for.

AND NO I DON’T WANT EXPLORER 8 EITHER! (cringe)

Sheesh, you guys are acting more and more like Microsoft every day!

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Comment by Eduardo

May 3rd, 2009 at 7:34 pm

Why don’t you guys at Yahoo offer us an option of grouping messages by subject (or by author) in the inbox? This would help us users SO MUCH! It keeps the inbox much more organized and clean.

I’m almost giving up Yahoo and going to Gmail for this. Really.

It’s the only feature that I really miss.

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Comment by Jeepdog

May 18th, 2009 at 10:53 am

I hate the Connections thing. Take it off!!!
Thanks to those who told us how to delete it. I’m going there after this.
So many of you are gravitating to Gmail. I’ve been reading their blogs and the thing that happened last week…lots of people are saying their e-mails arent getting delivered or received.
I’d love to have the option of designating my own time to send an e-mail. So I can write it on my time and auto-send it…Hands-free, so to speak.
To be sure! Put a player in the e-mail screen. It would be fun to be able to send music files and play them while you’re reading your msgs.
I went to the ‘new’ e-mail page and the biggest thing I hated…the font. Why change something that isn’t broke?
Thanks for listening.

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June 5th, 2009 at 7:01 am

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June 5th, 2009 at 1:27 pm

[...] Yahooが、自社の展開する無料ウェブメールサービスを補完するために、種々の連携するアプリケーションの追加を発表した。Yahooは既に、昨年12月以来、Xoopit、Flickr、およびFlixsterなどの各種サードパーティー製アプリケーションをYahoo Mailに統合しつつある。これによって友人・知人、同僚などとコミュニケーションする際に行き来しなければならなかったウェブサイトの数を減らすことができるようになってきた。 [...]

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June 5th, 2009 at 10:18 pm

[...] that aim to complement its free webmail service today. Since December last year, Yahoo features a number of third-party applications inside Yahoo Mail, such as Xoopit, Flickr and Flixster, all in a good effort to reduce the amount [...]

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Comment by Jenifer

June 8th, 2009 at 1:56 am

Oh why yahoo give me why why why

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Comment by mena

June 8th, 2009 at 10:32 am

may i say that is very great servise from yahoo wich surprise us with all good servise
thanks

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June 15th, 2009 at 5:12 am

[...] seems like only yesterday when we first introduced applications in Yahoo! Mail. Well, starting today, we’re launching a handful of new and VERY cool apps in Yahoo! Mail — all [...]

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Comment by araya

July 2nd, 2009 at 6:19 am

Thank you for information

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