Screencast: Use the Sign-In Seal to thwart fraudsters

January 23rd, 2008 at 7:20 pm

As a Mac user, when can we other Mac users expect to see the new Mail for Safari?

January 23rd, 2008 at 9:52 pm

I’m on dial-up (26.4k/s) so video can’t be downloaded within a week. Do you have a text version I can read?

January 23rd, 2008 at 10:06 pm

Wish Jing Project supported Linux, but then I remembered that there many GNU programs on linux doing the same.

I am sure it is a cool and useful feature for Win guys too.

January 24th, 2008 at 7:46 am

I am having problems with emails coming to me at yahoo getting bounced or others being told address doesn’t exsist. I have several accounts set up to send me my invoices to this address and don’t want to miss anything. Please help! Thanks…keep up the great work.

John

January 24th, 2008 at 11:59 am

I’ve been exclusively using the Yahoo Mail Beta for a few years now. I didn’t really feel that I had any choice about upgrading, because of the new features it offered that were indispensable.

However, for about the first year or so, and continuing for a lesser degree afterward, I can’t really count how many times I not only had to rewrite emails from SCRATCH from memory, not once, but TWICE. This was the result of crashes in both IE and Firefox induced by Yahoo Mail – or mostly just Yahoo Mail itself freezing or crashing.

The biggest problem was the lack of AUTOSAVE. This wouldn’t have been a problem if autosave was implemented – just has GMail has done for about 2 1/2 years now! What is so difficult about implementing it?

The one other critical feature that completely vanished with Yahoo Mail Beta was Drafts being automatically moved to the Sent Folder upon being sent. I have about 3500 drafts, and have absolutely no idea which ones were actually sent and which NEVER were sent because of crashes. I can’t spend literally weeks of my life checking and comparing 3500 draft emails against the Sent Folder, and removing those that were sent to actually complete the hundreds that remained unsent because of crashes, let alone the ones that I never completed because I began to work on other emails, and lost track.

I need Yahoo to do this AUTOMATICALLY for me now, so I can get to work on this.

One other critical thing:
When a dialog pops up saying “Do you want to navigate away from this page?” or “You have an unsaved draft” the DEFAULT BUTTON IS “OK”. This situation can happen unitentionally for various reasons, including “typing too fast” on some occasions, which sometimes ENTERS THE CLOSE TAB HOTKEY WHICH CAN NEVER BE DISABLED. Any key in typeahead buffer automatically presses the default “OK” and you lose your unsent email. Why? The user is “punished” for actually typing emails too quickly. This is a SIMPLE UI CHANGE and not even a “bug fix”. I have an open ticket on this for about 5 months, and have never gotten any real response!

I’m m a paying Yahoo Mail Plus customer, and have been for several years now as well, longer than I’ve used Yahoo Mail Beta. This is real money I’m paying for this service, not free ad-supported email.

I’d have switched to Gmail altogether years ago if I found a way of preserving the “To:” field in my Sent folder, without having to forward all Yahoo emails to GMail. I want to preserve my valuable data of several years intact.

What is so hard in implementing AUTOSAVE and MARKING SENT DRAFTS as actually having been sent?
How hard it it to MAKE THE DEFAULT BUTTON FOR NAVIGATING AWAY FROM UNSAVED DRAFTS TO “CANCEL”?

I’m desperate about these issues. and these have cost me untold hours of my life to correct. If I charged per hour for the lost time I’ve experienced over the years, it would cost Yahoo over $10,000.

For now my recommendation for new and existing users is to quit Yahoo Mail while you have the chance and switch to GMail. Don’t let this happen to you!

Ted Kandell

January 24th, 2008 at 3:29 pm

Thanks for the security tip, it was a good reminder.

January 24th, 2008 at 4:21 pm

How does this help? The scammer just requests the “sealed” login page and displays it with different submit actions. Enhancing the scam.

January 24th, 2008 at 5:59 pm

I am very upset. I can not get in my e-mail’s
and I know you can help but have not. I can
not change my e-mail or use my old one. What’s up??

January 24th, 2008 at 7:31 pm

Why do you use a vote to determine what we like, can’t you simply see most of us reject the new system… or is that the point, find a why to make us believe the new system is better?!?

January 24th, 2008 at 9:07 pm

Very cool tip to know Ryan! Thank you!

January 24th, 2008 at 10:50 pm

interesting to note that most of the comments were not positive about the “new Coke” version of Yahoo. Stick with “Classic”-it will save you having to get a new eyeglass prescription every year. My first experience with the new Yahoo made it impossible to respond to the only 2 items I tried to sell on Craigslist. I got the evil Error 999 message which never was resolved so I switched back. Yahoo acted like I was overloading their system with it’s canned response back saying I was using too much bandwidth? 2 items for sale on Craigslist? Huh?!@#%

January 25th, 2008 at 3:02 am

i need my last mails and my account

January 25th, 2008 at 5:55 am

hi./……….

January 25th, 2008 at 7:53 am

RYAN – what is the red circle w/ the line through it that follows my mouse everywhere in the new Yahoo Mail?? I have just switched and it annoys me….what do I do to turn it off and what role does it play? thanks!
LORI

January 25th, 2008 at 7:55 am

pa join nman

January 25th, 2008 at 10:05 am

Dr One-
If the bad guy uses the real yahoo login page, s/he doesn’t get
a) your password (or username)
b) your cookies (so they can’t pretend to be you)
The bad guys really want/need one of those.

January 25th, 2008 at 12:10 pm

There ya go… evidently, your new, like most news today, lacks considerably. I’m 50 years old so I could write novels on this subject over the years, but, the bottom line is quit focusing on the bottom line and build BETTER products. If the [added]pain outweighs the [added]pleasure, what’s the point. American adages use to be “do unto, others…”, “walk a mile in another’s shoes”, “it’s Ok to go out of your way to help another”, today it seems to be “never look beyond your own skin”, “if it’s good for you, it’s good for everyone”, “tell it to the hand”

January 25th, 2008 at 4:43 pm

Here in the boonies of Maine we still have dial-up service so I can forget about watching video’s. How do I get information?

January 25th, 2008 at 4:44 pm

Here in the boonies of Maine we still have dial-up service so I can forget about watching video’s and I don’t have a clue what you are talking about.

January 25th, 2008 at 4:45 pm

Here in the boonies of Maine we still have dial-up service so I can forget about watching video’s and I don’t have a clue what you are talking about.
Sofar I have waited 5 minutes and this message still has not been send though I did hit the submit button.

January 25th, 2008 at 5:14 pm

Miles -
The point is that the scammer can request YOUR login page and any “special” images and then display anything they want — including a login page which looks authentic. If they just use the whole yahoo page as is and insert their own form actions — then when the form is submitted the info goes to the scammer. This approach by yahoo may make you feel better but makes you less secure since you are lulled into believing it somehow helps.

January 25th, 2008 at 5:24 pm

I for one don”t use the new mail because it doesn’t allow forwarding of messages with full headers as the original mail does I find that when reporting abuse( which by the way is all to common on yahoo )this feature is very helpful in tracking the abuser.so I will keep using the old mail and if it is replaced by the new completely than I will just go elsewhere .

January 25th, 2008 at 7:33 pm

Does anybody have any idea how to deal with gayguyschat and get totally out of their site and records?

January 25th, 2008 at 8:38 pm

Yahoo has been my main email since before Yahoo stock went public. PLEASE don’t take away CLASSIC!!
I don’t want to start over.

January 26th, 2008 at 6:47 am

I can’t reach my website..Helppp Please
what is going on with geocities???

Greetings Angel Wynton

January 26th, 2008 at 10:37 am

I would like to edit my mail but can’t.Can you tell me Why? I have been with yahoo since 1999 And never had problems getting into my mail.The new yahoo has not recognized my browser.They tell me to go back to the older version but cant no longer find it.My account is still there but can’t enter.Please let me know if im fighting a losing battle ive been doing that for months.I would appreciate any information you can give me.
Thank You
Ann
a_n_n_1_4_3
munchee

Please send your responce at melody-ann@webtv.net

January 26th, 2008 at 12:48 pm

When I switch to Yahoo new mail, I get a zillion script errors. I switched to Netscape Connect,
(wmconnect) when I moved in Aug., as my ISP. I have a hard time getting to IE. Of course, my provider can’t help me. I don’t know what I need to do. Any suggestions?
Just please keep the CLASSIC, that’s all I can use.

January 26th, 2008 at 2:41 pm

Only when I want ATTACHMENT a pictuers sometime there is a problem, it’s working very SLOWLY.

January 26th, 2008 at 8:52 pm

Wow, the result of your breakdown about the new mail is almost beyond belief. Somehow, 2:1 seems a stretch considering the tone of most of the responses. How about addressing and solving the various access issues? I tried the new
“improved”(?) mail on several occasions only to experience script errors and annoyance with the layout and text legibilty. After reading all the comments of the past few weeks I feel I was lucky to be able to switch back, and do not intend to push my luck again!! I think Yahoo! is seeing only what it wants to see! Something being “new” does not automatically mean “better”. “Classic” rules!

January 26th, 2008 at 9:02 pm

completely new to yahoo mail. using it for two weeks, and don’t know thie difference between the Classsic and the New Mail. remember being asked why I liked the Classic. I replied that it was plainer windows without all confusing pop ups. After a few days I find that I can’t open my email messages, without giving my user name and password three to five times.!!!!and tonight I cant get in at all. Have even uninstalled yahoo and reinstalled it over. Have changed passwords six times and changed email addresses in yahoo about three times. What gives??? Is it Yahoo on the blink ???

January 27th, 2008 at 2:59 am

Is anyone else having problems with the new yahoo mail? I have been using beta mail since I joined yahoo. It has suddenly stopped working – just hangs with a ‘loading mail’ message. I’m on XP Pro SP2 and I have not changed or upgraded anything on my laptop since well before this problem occurred. I am being forced to use yahoo classic which I don’t like. Any help appreciated. Thanks.

January 27th, 2008 at 9:26 pm

So when are we going to get the new yahoo calendar?? I need it work with my palm/htc mobile device and for it to be interactive with yahoo mail. I have asked numerous times but get no response! How about contacting and speaking to YOUR users!

January 28th, 2008 at 10:40 pm

I must admit I have experianced a whole new field of problems I am now having with my emails, switched from Incredimail to Yahoo Xtra as all the promises indicated this was a great improved system, my comment “rubbish” lock up errors, uncontrolable spam. slow as, very disapointing after all the promises. Looking for a better provider.

January 29th, 2008 at 1:12 am

i’m having a hard time to access!!

January 29th, 2008 at 3:12 am

Ryan: I have posted several times about yahoo bouncing mail. I would appreciate at least a response or something that someone is either working on it or there is a possible fix for this. However, there are none from anyone at yahoo. You (yahoo) keeps postings about doing this or doing that…how about just fixing what is there first before trying to improve on it. Improving on a broken system…will just be an improved broken system. My last post was January 24.

January 31st, 2008 at 5:16 pm

Hi John,
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I’m sorry but I didn’t see that comment. Can you email me your details at ymailblog1[at]yahoo.com
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RyanK

February 5th, 2008 at 7:46 am

Hi Ryan,
I do now appreciate the New Yahoo Mail… Thank you. But still have to swich to new sign in seal… anyhow… keep up the good work…Good luck.
I do appreciate your new photo, before I thought you’ve got facial palsy with the unsightly smirk on your face.

February 9th, 2008 at 1:47 pm

Dear Ryan,
I have been reading the comments that are posted and I agree with Ted Kandell about the compositon of messages. Is Yahoo going to address this issue or just ignore it? I have written to Yahoo about the problem I am having with Messenger and have not received any response. It seems Yahoo likes one-way communications; they want us to communicate with them, but they maintain stony silence. In case you’re interested (which I doubt) about my problem with Messenger, it is as follows. When I log on to the internet, I get a message (popup) from Messenger that I need to install an upgraded version. I downloaded it 3 times and each time ended with a Spanish version. I don’t speak or read Spanish, so it was of no use to me.
Zazu

February 11th, 2008 at 12:44 am

I cannot get into my email account I’ve used for years , dena_hall@yahoo.com and my most recent one, kaystowe@yahoo.com.
It says I don’t have a account, give me break,

I hope you are kidding you lost my emails. Get back to me ASAP. I’m furious, all my important confirmations regarding purchases and people responding to my Craigs List emails are there, Please Please get back to me one way or another I’m tired of being ignored. about this situation.

I’m going sue you for deleting my account if you did. Call me at 337-561-5151 My name is Dena Hall
my userid is (kaystowe@yahoo.com) and (dena_hall@yahoo.com) I’ve even created a new one and now can’t get into that one, WHAT THE HECK.

I AM SO FURIOUS I’M GOING TO BLOWpo

February 22nd, 2008 at 3:32 pm

why does the pictures that I send. do not go through to the other party some of the time.

March 2nd, 2008 at 11:57 am

This my mail is not open why pl tell me what problem ok thanks