Screencast: Need help finding that message?
- Posted December 28th, 2007 at 11:02 am by Ryan
- Categories: All-New Mail, General, Screencasts, Tips & Tutorials
A lot of you may be off work this week (regardless of what you celebrate) and trying to remember all the great stuff that happened this last year while you get ready for 2008. Perhaps you are compiling a Year End Recap (like I am … be sure to check back next week 
), or maybe you are trying to find a receipt from all that online shopping you have been doing recently (again … that could be me), or maybe it’s just like any other time of year and you are looking to track down a specific message.
Anyway … whatever your reason, the advanced search feature in the All-New Yahoo! Mail makes it REALLY EASY to sift through all that email you’ve sent and received to find the one you are looking for. Narrow down that search by a wide list of criteria (sender, recipient, subject, keywords, date, etc.) and find it fast. For our latest screencast I’ve staged a little search scenario to help demonstrate how it works.
You can check out the hi-res version here or view the embedded version below.
Ryan K.
Community Manager
Yahoo! Mail
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- 27 Comments
December 28th, 2007 at 11:33 am
Search is great EXCEPT I can’t search my SPAM. That is the folder I most want to search. This scenario comes up all of the time: I have a friend that says they sent me something … I can’t find it so I need to search in my Spam folder for it. There are 1,000+ messages in there!
December 28th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
Search looks nice. However, I only get a timeout error box stating no XML received. Search is unusable for me. I thought it was because I had a 1/2 GB of messages, but I moved all but 100 M to GMAIL, but search still times out. Since YAHOO has unlimited storage available, it needs to support search.
December 28th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
I’ve used search for years… but now I doesn’t work. I just tried to find a message I last sent to my friend, and typed her name in and all messages with her name did populate into a list BUT NOW I CAN”T EVEN CLICK TO READ IT, to see which one it is I’m looking for! What good is the list if I can’t read what’s in it?
This is annoying to me! and totally useless! Why did you go and mess with something that was already FINE? and how long will I have to wait until you figure out how to fix it?
December 28th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
Yahoo has to add a way to search ONLY the SPAM folder. As Rich suggests, it’s aggravating to have to sift through hundreds of unsolicited emails to find legitamate ones.
December 29th, 2007 at 1:03 am
Do you have any comment on regarding Firefox 3 beta not working with the new Yahoo Mail? I’m sure for many readers ob this blog these are two very important programs and they must work together
December 29th, 2007 at 3:25 am
The video gave me one more reason NOT to use Yahoo Mail. Thanks, Ryan. I mean, how much more clumsy can you make an email client?
And, You might want to change your profile face to something better – the current one just shows how un-interested you are about the readers of this blog…
December 29th, 2007 at 8:23 am
ya ilove it
December 29th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
the video was stupid!! all it showed was a users page. well, it might have changed at the end, but i was to bored to watch it all:(
December 29th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
I love the search feature; on my account, amelia.geoffries@yahoo.co.uk, I can easily search for messsages and find the ones I want.
December 29th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
One other thing: Most of the spam folder is *spam* so I don’t think I’d like the search to include that.
December 30th, 2007 at 1:12 am
:)
December 30th, 2007 at 7:21 am
I would like to change one of my e-mail addresses, can’t figure out how, can you please tell me? Thanks
December 30th, 2007 at 7:47 am
In the process of opening my email this morning and being “granted” this new yahoo page format, much to my chagrin, all of my instant message archive has disappeared…and I have saved it for a book I’ve been working on for two years.
Anyone know how I can access my IM archive?
Thanks.
Susie
December 30th, 2007 at 10:38 am
It works really great BUT, when I’m chatting… when I’m pressing certain letters, my whole window freezes and opens up a compose mail, or replies on a previous email! it’s really annoying… is there a way for you guys to program something that turns off those shortcuts??
December 30th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Helpful; thanks. I agree with the Spam comments above!
December 30th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
Now that I’ve tried it, some requests:
When one filter is Attachment Type, I’d like “none” to be an option. (If there were an Attachment Count filter, I could set it to zero, but there isn’t.)
Thanks!
December 30th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
i like it! (-:
December 31st, 2007 at 5:43 am
The Search annoys me. It never works.
January 2nd, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Geoffries,
That’s the whole point. The Spam folder has too many emails to manually look through. That’s why there needs to be a way to search this folder by itself.
If you have a business you will know how important this is. One missed email from a prospect can cost a lot of money.
Robert
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:39 am
I’m frustrated because I often need to search for recent messages, but the “new and improved” search feature only seems to find messages sent to me over a month ago. Narrowing the results doesn’t launch a new search, but searches within what’s already found, so that doesn’t do me any good, either.
How can I search for messages sent to me within the last 30 days?
February 5th, 2008 at 12:26 am
no comment…
March 6th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
Wow Eric I’m experiencing the opposite! I can only search messages that have been sent within the last 30 days! This is most despicable!!
I’m really considering switching to Google, because I have over 2,000 messages in my inbox and when I run a search that should provide me with hundreds of results (like searching my name for example) I only get a handful of results. only 2 or 3. If I, a web designer and interactive programmer, can’t get this thing to work, who will!
I was once excited about this new yahoo mail app, but now that I can’t search through my over 2000 messages this web application is WORTHLESS!!!! Yahoo Fix your client!!!
March 19th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Add me to the list of being really annoyed that I can only seem to search the last month of messages. I’d love to hear a status on this…whether it’s a bug, or if I need to shift 6 years of email to a new service.
May 2nd, 2008 at 4:49 am
Extremely frustrated with the search function. I am searching for a specific message sent last year and cannot get anything beyond a month back. I just did a search for “and” which came up with results in the last month only. I have used Yahoo! mail since I started e-mailing and am now looking to other options.
June 3rd, 2008 at 7:27 am
I’m still using Yahoo! Mail Classic version. I hate this search b.s. too. I used to love Yahoo’s ability to search ALL of your messages through all time, but recently when I search it only does the previous month OR it will time out after about 1 minute of trying then I can’t login to Yahoo for about 5 minutes. What I think may have happened was that I used to have Yahoo Mail Plus! (costs $9.95/month) and it used to work fine. Maybe you have to pay to be able to search your emails… If that’s true, I’m moving to G-mail… can anyone confirm?
October 12th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
The search really sucks now. I have all my business stuff on yahoo and I can only get results back from the last month. PLEASE FIX THIS!!! The search feature was so great before why do you have to break it????!!!!
October 16th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
I agree with several of the posters, my searches only return results that include emails sent in the last month or so. I too use it for business so this is very frustrating! This problem has been occurring for several months. I beg you as well, please fix it!!!