To those of you who have been using our Yahoo! Mail Beta product: thank you. Your feedback on the Suggestions Board and on this blog has kept us busy fixing, building, and improving the experience. Thanks to your participation, we are launching a new batch of features that will go live this week for Yahoo! Mail Beta users around the world. Here is what you will see:
Color me excited!
Themes, themes, themes. We heard you loud and clear: you miss our colorful, fun themes! Our team buckled down in December to build and release a gallery of themes for you to choose from. Go to the Help drop-down menu at the top left of the page, select Themes and check out our gallery. What is your favorite theme color? My favorite is the dark pink, but I’m girlie like that :)
They’re baaaaack: Calendar and Notepad return
You love our Calendar and Notepad products and we’re glad you do. With this release, we are giving you easily accessible links to both Calendar and Notepad in the Applications section on the bottom left corner. Stay tuned as we integrate products like Calendar and Notepad more deeply into Mail.
Multi-attachment upload
Now you can upload multiple attachments at once. Just hold down your Ctrl, Shift or Command key and select all the files you want to attach.
More room for social
Finally, we have moved all your Updates to their own tab. This way, when you want to get your Yahoo!, Facebook and Twitter fix, you can go to the Updates tab and browse without interruption! I also like that my News is back in view on the What’s New tab.
We are continuing to update and improve the Yahoo! Mail Beta, so please keep using it and giving us feedback!
I miss the Yahoo events bar on the bottom of the e-mail page. Anyway to get this back? It was a great reminder as it was in front of my eyes alll day.
I’m glad to see Calendar and Notepad, but I would prefer these not to be in under Applications, instead have them integrated directly into Yahoo Mail.
Calendar should be a tab within Yahoo Mail, it is something that should work hand in hand with Yahoo Mail. Not as a separate web app.
Under “Help” in the top navigation, choose “Return to Original Mail.” That will get you back.
How to customize the theme? It’s bad for eyes for that bright color.
Love the New Yahoo Beta, but miss Sent to address at a glance in inbox.
Hi Fed, you can turn off the updates by clicking on the “manage settings” link, which will bring you to a page where you can change your settings. Hope that helps. Thanks for your feedback!
Can someone PLEASE tell me how to get rid of those UPDATES that always show up on the yahoo mail page…..I don’t use them, don’t want them, don’t need them and I don’t like them…..I also don’t belong to any groups. I simply use my yahoo email account for just that, email. Can anybody tell me how to get rid of this stuff?
I use Mail Search a great deal. I GREATLY NEED the ability to filter my searches. It could have been much better under the old Yahoo Mail, but it is non-existence under BETA mail. Please correct this issue.
I really miss the stationary, I used that a lot, and also I used Smiley Central, which does not work with Yahoo Beta
Please reduce the size of that upper picture bar. It is wasted air, and merely reduces the amount of the interface below.
Thanks
Great strides have been made since the initial Beta launch in November. You’re obviously listening to users and taking their suggestions to heart.
Thanks for the response, it’s very heartening. Just a few more things such as the oft-mentioned stationery, full-session SSL, easier access to mail filters, calendar tab, customizable themes and a reduced header would make Yahoo Mail nearly perfect.
Why can’t you bring back the stationery? Everyone loved it!
Great strides have been made since the initial Beta launch in November. You’re obviously listening to users and taking their suggestions to heart.
Thanks for the response, it’s very heartening. Just a few more things such as the oft-mentioned stationery, full-session SSL, easier access to mail filters, calendar tab, customizable themes and a reduced header would make Yahoo Mail nearly perfect.
Please reduce the size of that upper picture bar. It is wasted air, and merely reduces the amount of the interface below.
Thanks
I wish you would put more into the basics and less into the bells and whistles. I wrote asking for help weeks ago; my yahoo account is not searchable anymore. I am only able to search a few weeks back. This is TERRIBLE. I can’t find anything from two years back and it is causing me a lot of problems. Where’s the support?
I love the new themes and I love the new yahoo beta, its a huge improvement. The last yahoo email layout looked like a ripoff of MS Outlook. This looks much nicer, more original, less like outlook. Love the new theme colors.
I really miss the stationary, I used that a lot, and also I used Smiley Central, which does not work with Yahoo Beta
wow, great news! will developers have a chance to build and submit their own themes?