Archive for June, 2012

Finding Your Photos is now a Snap! — Introducing the new Photos App in Yahoo! Mail

Thursday, June 21st, 2012

If you’re like me, you send and receive a LOT of photos in Yahoo! Mail.  From baby pictures, to soccer photos, to what-happens-in-Vegas-stays-in-Vegas shenanigans, my Yahoo! Mail contains a treasure trove of memories.  The problem is, those memories are buried deep within my mailbox.  Ask me to retrieve those great photos Grandma sent when the twins were 3 (or was that 4?) and I’m likely to throw my hands up in dismay.

No longer.  Now, Yahoo! Mail makes it super simple to find and share those treasures with our new Photos app.  The Photos app aggregates all of the photos in your inbox that you’ve ever sent or received during the entire life of your email account. You can see thumbnails of all the photos and filter by date, sender, folder and size.

Check it out and you’ll quickly see how easy and fun it is to use! Take a walk down memory lane—relive that family reunion from 2010, the trip to Mexico or your nephew’s graduation from just last week! The Photos app defaults to showing the most recent photos first, but to surface your older photos just select “Sort by: Oldest.”

When you’re ready to share, you can either send your photos as an attachment in Yahoo! Mail, or you can post your own photos to Flickr and share from there.  Not a Flickr user?  No problem, we let you create an account seamlessly from within Yahoo! Mail.  If you’re an existing Flickr user, your Flickr account can easily be connected to your Yahoo! Mail inbox.  Now you can see your entire Flickr photostream in Yahoo! Mail.  Remember that photo you uploaded to Flickr from your iPhone yesterday?  There it is, in your Yahoo! Mail.

See how the Photos application works in this video.

Key features of the new Photos application includes:

  • Skip searching: Easily find all of your photos in one place
  • Share in seconds: Email your photos with one click or upload to Flickr
  • Find the associated email: Locate the photo (or attachment) and the email it was originally sent with
  • Sort easily: Easily sort and filter photos and attachments by sender, date, size or file type

The Photos app can be found in the lower-left side of Yahoo! Mail in the Applications area. To learn more, please visit our help page. Enjoy!

Miriam Geller

Director of Product Management

Yahoo! Mail

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Yahoo! Mail Now DMARC Compliant

Monday, June 4th, 2012

Every day Yahoo! sees hundreds of millions of forged emails pretending to come from trusted institutions.  These abusive emails range from annoying spam, to phishing attacks, to potential malware that can take over your computer. Whether it’s downright nasty or just unpleasant, that’s all email you don’t want. To combat this abuse, Yahoo! helped create the Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC), a specification spearheaded by major technology providers and email senders to collectively fight spam and phishing.

We’re pleased to announce that we have successfully completed the work required to support DMARC and will be rolling it out globally this week.

DMARC builds upon DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) and Sender Policy Framework (SPF), existing email validation standards that use cryptography to prove the identity of the sender domain by using the Domain Name System (DNS). With the addition of DMARC, emails have to prove that they are coming from a trusted sender.  Non-verifiable emails will never reach a recipient’s inbox. As a result, DMARC eliminates an email user’s exposure to potentially fraudulent and harmful messages.

What does this mean for you?
For Yahoo! Mail users, it means less email in your inbox from a non-verifiable source. For example, if you receive an email claiming that it is from your bank, the applicable DMARC policies require the email to prove that is indeed from your bank in order to be delivered to your mailbox. If the incoming email cannot be verified, Yahoo! Mail will not deliver the email to your mailbox.
For senders, it means you can protect your recipients and the reputation of your domain. You can tell Yahoo! how to handle non-verifiable emails, either keep it out of the inbox, or deliver to bulk. Yahoo! can also provide you with a report on emails from your domain that could not be verified.

Looking Ahead
In the coming months, we’ll be working with ISPs, email senders, and other email providers to encourage the creation and deployment of DMARC policies. At Yahoo! Mail, we’re working to make your email safer and are actively collaborating with other industry players to crack down on spam and phishing traffic.

Ajay Gopalkrishna

Sr. Product Manager

Yahoo! Mail

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