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If I were asked to conjure up a compelling visual representation of our incessant fight against spam, I probably would’ve come up with a highly inappropriate—and possibly offensive—infographic. (The anti-spam team deals with the nastiest of emails after all, from the vicious to the vile.) Thankfully, there were other creative and wholesome folks at Yahoo! who were up to the task.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, the visualization of Yahoo! Mail’s delivery and anti-spam network is worth several billion messages a day. It is quite mesmerizing. If you haven’t yet, do check it out at::

http:/visualize.yahoo.com

You can read more about the Yahoo! Mail Visualization Project here.

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Today, there’s an estimated 70 million people online in the Middle East and North Africa region, with another 50 million expected to come online in the next 3 years.  The Arabic-speaking region is a huge and important one for Yahoo! and Yahoo! Mail.

Yahoo! has a large and growing audience with millions of users from this vast region visiting Yahoo! Mail daily.  Now, we’re excited to announce that users can register for a new Yahoo! Mail account in Arabic.

In addition to an Arabic language user interface, we also mirrored Yahoo! Mail (Arabic is read and written from right to left) and included an updated rich text editor so users can write and respond to emails and instant messages in Arabic.  Users will also benefit from engaging local news content, courtesy of our friends at Yahoo! Maktoob.

Signing up for a new account is easy – head over to the Yahoo! Maktoob homepage and click on the sign-up link.  We’re thrilled about launching Yahoo! Mail in Arabic and look forward to enhancing the product in the weeks and months to come.

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Editor’s note: Our community plays a major role in shaping the future of Yahoo! Mail, and we love it when we receive your feedback and insights. Today, we would like to introduce you to one of Yahoo! Mail’s biggest and most extraordinary fans: Mohamed Elbahy. Learn how Yahoo! Mail helps him stay connected to the people he cares about the most. Mohamed loves Yahoo! Mail so much that he created a Facebook page for it, where he not only created fun content for the full site but also answered users’ technical questions about Yahoo! Mail. We’ve migrated all of the fans on Mohamed’s page to our official Facebook page and wanted to share our appreciation to Mohamed, and give you the opportunity to get to know him!

Yahoo!: Please tell us about a little bit about yourself.

Mohamed Elbahy: I’m an accountant at one of the leading food commodities in Egypt. I graduated from the Faculty of Commerce, am 22 years old, and I love my country because of its good weather and delightful people who are always smiling.

Q: When did you start using Yahoo! products?

Mohamed Elbahy: I’ve read a lot about Yahoo!, back to its beginnings in 1994 when it was a web directory. I found it an inspiring success story, and I learned the useful lesson of how to start small and expand until you become huge.

I’ve been using Yahoo! since 2000, I think, and Yahoo! Mail since its inbox storage limit was 3 MB. All my email and interactions with my friends abroad are through Yahoo! Mail. It plays a big role in my online social life.

Q: Tell us why you chose Yahoo! Mail as your primary email?

Mohamed Elbahy: I chose Yahoo! Mail because it has a very friendly user interface, a different way of displaying email, and a lot of innovative functions and features. Also, the new Yahoo! Mail has a sophisticated engine that differentiates between your emails and spam. And of course, the unlimited storage, as we say in Egypt, is the best of the best.

Q: What inspired you to create your own Facebook page for Yahoo! Mail?

Mohamed Elbahy: I decided to create a Facebook fan page for Yahoo! Mail just because I’m one of the millions of people who loves to use Yahoo! Mail. I think I was trying to share my technical knowledge with other fans, to find solutions for any problems that they run into, and gather some feedback to improve Yahoo! services.

Q: What has been your favorite Facebook post on Yahoo! Mail Page?

Example: I especially like the Question of the Week/Email Quiz/Poll days. I get to vote and interact without much work, learn something new about email, and discover how my opinion differs from the rest of Yahoo! Mail users.

Q: What kind of new products or features would you like to see Yahoo! Mail add?

Mohamed Elbahy: I think that Yahoo! has a great position in the history of email systems, it was one of the first free email providers here in the Middle East, and continues to be a loved brand. With fierce competitors like Gmail and Microsoft’s Hotmail, the challenge is not easy, but I am certain Yahoo! will continue to come up with strong and innovative features. I think it would be great if Yahoo! Mail could continue releasing new themes and introduce the ability to customize them. In addition, a great way to continue the Yahoo! Mail innovation is to work on mobile technology and how it relates to Mail.

Mohamed, we want to say a sincere ‘Shokra’ for being such a loyal Yahoo! Mail user.  We appreciate all of our fans and truly appreciate your participation in our community. If you are interested in becoming a guest blogger, please send us a tweet (@yahoomail)!

Sincerely,

The Yahoo! Mail Team

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Have you ever been in the middle of a ‘Reply to All’ and realized that the message you’re writing has become too personal for all the recipients and should really just be going to the sender alone?  Or how about the opposite – you’re replying to just the sender and it dawns on you that you want this message to go to all the other recipients too?

If so, you’ll be happy to hear that Yahoo! Mail now provides you with a button in the compose header that helps in both of these scenarios!  You’ll no longer need to cut/copy the text of your draft into another message or manually add/remove recipients.  If you’re already doing a ‘Reply to Sender’, simply press the ‘Reply to All’ button to add the additional recipients of the original mail to your current message.  Similarly, the ‘Reply to Sender’ button will remove all recipients other than the original message’s sender.

The button is available next to the “TO” field in a compose when performing either the ‘Reply to All’ or ‘Reply to Sender’ action, provided there is more than one recipient that’s not you.

Sweet, huh?

We’re always working on ways to increase Yahoo! Mail’s usability and performance, as well as your productivity and efficiency.  I hope you enjoy the new feature!

Stay tuned for more, and thanks for using Yahoo! Mail!

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iPad users, Yahoo! has great news for you. Today at Yahoo! Product Runway, we unveiled a new welcome page for Yahoo! Mail on your iPad, accessible when you log into your Yahoo! Mail account by going to http://mail.yahoo.com in your web browser.  Take a quick look at unread email from your contacts, enjoy personalized news articles, stay aware of weather and headlines from your neighborhood, enjoy interesting pictures from Flickr, and keep up to date with latest happenings in the world with the Trending Now video.

As the premier digital media company, Yahoo! is the only major email provider in the world that brings you rich content to enhance your mail experience on the iPad. Built robustly on cutting edge HTML5 web technology, the new welcome page is touch optimized, allowing you to swipe through the tiles so you can quickly get to the content you find most interesting. Simply tap on any story to view the full content on the associated Yahoo! website in a new window or tab.

Produced every morning, Mon-Fri, our Trending Now video will help you get up to speed on the biggest stories on the web in mere minutes.

Here at Yahoo!, we are reinventing email every day to help you keep in touch with your friends in a manner that is fast, easy to use, and fun. Yahoo! Mail already offers the Quick Reply feature that lets people instantly respond to messages from Facebook, unlimited email storage and enhanced spam protection.  And now, thanks to the rich content brought to you on the new Yahoo! Mail iPad welcome page, email is a chore, no more!

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