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Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

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Post by ineedtosleep »

comex wrote: post #23

There are only a few things I want from a Gmail competitor, whether it be a webapp or desktop app: - Search. Good, fast search over 7 GB of email. - Speed. - Undo send. - Multiple aliases on the same email account. It's definitely possible to beat Gmail in the first two, these days, but importing all that email into another service takes a while, so there had better be a good case that I'll get equal or superior func…

If one wants #2, I don't see #3 being viable in conjunction. How would an undo send work (other than placing it in some sort of delayed queue/spool)?

Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

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Post by insteadof »

alphakappa wrote: post #6

I don't use Yahoo mail because they (used to) insert ads inside the body of your email. Which meant that if I sent an email to a friend, the footer would contain a yahoo ad. I'm not sure if they changed it, but I don't like the idea of sending an ad along with my email. Put an ad in my user interface all you like, but not in my content.

They did change it. Emails out no longer contain the hawking footer.

Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

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Post by comex »

ineedtosleep wrote: post #31
comex wrote: post #23

There are only a few things I want from a Gmail competitor, whether it be a webapp or desktop app: - Search. Good, fast search over 7 GB of email. - Speed. - Undo send. - Multiple aliases on the same email account. It's definitely possible to beat Gmail in the first two, these days, but importing all that email into another service takes a while, so there had better be a good case that I'll get equal or superior func…

If one wants #2, I don't see #3 being viable in conjunction. How would an undo send work (other than placing it in some sort of delayed queue/spool)?

Indeed, that's how Gmail's undo send works - it delays outgoing messages for ten seconds. Of course this is necessarily an exception to speed :)

Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

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Post by Tyr42 »

ineedtosleep wrote: post #31
comex wrote: post #23

There are only a few things I want from a Gmail competitor, whether it be a webapp or desktop app: - Search. Good, fast search over 7 GB of email. - Speed. - Undo send. - Multiple aliases on the same email account. It's definitely possible to beat Gmail in the first two, these days, but importing all that email into another service takes a while, so there had better be a good case that I'll get equal or superior func…

If one wants #2, I don't see #3 being viable in conjunction. How would an undo send work (other than placing it in some sort of delayed queue/spool)?

It delays sending for a minute or 15 seconds, long enough to go, "WAIT, I forgot something, undo". Kinda useful.

Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

#35

Post by dpearce »

comex wrote: post #23

There are only a few things I want from a Gmail competitor, whether it be a webapp or desktop app: - Search. Good, fast search over 7 GB of email. - Speed. - Undo send. - Multiple aliases on the same email account. It's definitely possible to beat Gmail in the first two, these days, but importing all that email into another service takes a while, so there had better be a good case that I'll get equal or superior func…

You can get undo send in Gmail labs

Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

#36

Post by nazgulnarsil »

Which email client supports sub-addresses and sending such mail to automatically generated folders?

For the email foo@foo.com, I want to be able to give someone foo+bar@foo.com and when they email me it automatically goes into a generated bar folder without any additional clicks or configuration from me.

Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

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Post by w33ble »

johnyzee wrote: post #14

GMail is deteriorating. I loathe the new 'reduced' inline reply UI. Half the time I am searching for how to reveal the sender address or subject field because I need to change them, but GMail seems to think this is an edge use case. Today I got the new tabbed inboxes - 'Primary', 'Social' and 'Promotions'. Lots of important email is now out of view from the primary inbox and buried with unimportant crap. This is so f…

I got that the other day. I was kind of excited, until I started using it. I recently started to play the inbox-zero game, and now I have 3 inboxes to sort through, and make sure things were being categorized correctly. Pretty painful.

Like all the others have pointed out, you can (thankfully!) turn it off.

Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

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Post by bobbles »

johnyzee wrote: post #14

GMail is deteriorating. I loathe the new 'reduced' inline reply UI. Half the time I am searching for how to reveal the sender address or subject field because I need to change them, but GMail seems to think this is an edge use case. Today I got the new tabbed inboxes - 'Primary', 'Social' and 'Promotions'. Lots of important email is now out of view from the primary inbox and buried with unimportant crap. This is so f…

Half the time I think GMail is being unresponsive it turns out its just put the cursor on the screen somewhere ready for text and has given me no indication I need to look on the opposite corner of the screen from where I clicked 'reply'

Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

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Post by NoPiece »

tshtf wrote: post #24
onli wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not having SSL as default is unfortunate, but the menu options doesn't seem very obscure to me. Turn on SSL is the correct name for the option.

That is (Gear icon) -> Mail Options -> General -> "Turn on SSL"... Four mouse clicks through menus is obscure enough, and then you have to do the same on every browser. It should be enabled by default.

It isn't that bad. It really is only 1 click to get there. Mouse over the gear and click mail options in the drop down. You are now on the general settings page that has the SSL option. You don't have to do it for every browser; the setting applies to your account.

But you are right, it should be on by default.

Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

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Post by tracker1 »

barbs wrote: post #28

Not to mention the fact that Yahoo! actually cares about their users' privacy: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/yahoo-fight-for-users-...

A stark change from when I stopped using Yahoo Mail... signed up a friend, and they already had spam by the time you got into the settings to "opt out" of having your address submitted to third parties.
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