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.
How do we get this? And when, if we can’t now?
And Calendar – WHEN will calendar be INTEGRATED??? Please? :)
Awesome. I prefer the way it is now than the way it was before.
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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.
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.
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!
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?
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
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!!!!
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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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!
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.
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.
wellcome now.
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!
hi luke,..ur right
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.
all
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.
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.
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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.
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)”
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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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.
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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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!
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…
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.
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…
its in mail options, general preferences uncheck connection suggestions
It finally worked for me
its in mail options, general preferences uncheck connection suggestions
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
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.
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??