Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore • Hacker News Board

Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

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Post by porpoisemonkey » Thu, Jul 18, 2013, 1:22 AM UTC

babuskov wrote: post #26

VikingCoder wrote: post #4

- Get a 1920x1080 monitor. No, really. Decent ones are cheap and awesome. That said, sure, GMail could support other resolutions better. I have to make my window tiny in order to make Reply remotely unusable - what's your problem with it? - I have the "Undo Send" Labs features enabled, so I can undo a lot more than your unintentional sends. I can undo my intentional but ill-considered sends, too. - I can go to Google…

- I cannot get 1920x1080 monitor on a laptop. It would defeat the purpose. My problem is this: http://backwardcompatible.net/images/gmail.png * top posting is useless when you have long e-mail with 6-10 points to address in it. * being able to see 7 lines at a time is my real problem * the other real problem is when I have a 100-line email with 10 points to address in it and 10th point ends on line 34, I want to be a…

There's a feature in Gmail labs called "Quote Selected Text" that can be used to cut the remaining 66 lines

You can enable it through the Gmail settings > Labs > "Quote Selected Text", highlight the lines you want to respond to in your email and press the 'r' key to open a reply with only the highlighted part quoted.

http://email.about.com/od/gmailtips/qt/et_quote_select.htm

Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

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Post by emp_ » Thu, Jul 18, 2013, 1:23 AM UTC

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…

My serious issue with it was forwarding my CV after typing a very personalized message (I send a CV every couple months or so to the rare job post that catches my eye) and when I sent it today, BAM! Forgot to change the hidden subject. I am john's lack of interface.

Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

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Post by nmjenkins » Thu, Jul 18, 2013, 1:30 AM UTC

nazgulnarsil wrote: post #36

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.

FastMail will do this if the folder already exists, but won't automatically create the folder.

Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

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Post by cdmckay » Thu, Jul 18, 2013, 1:32 AM UTC

rogerbinns wrote: post #47

masnick wrote: post #10

If you're tired of the gmail interface (like I was), I'd highly recommend http://fastmail.fm . I made the switch (moved 55k+ messages with http://protips.maxmasnick.com/export-gmail-to-fastmail-or-an... ) and haven't looked back. FastMail offers a similar infinite scroll feature. I was able to select and move several thousand messages through the web interface when I was first configuring it. FastMail's highlights fo…

You can also use IMAP clients. For example I never use the gmail web interface and use Thunderbird instead. I have personal email accounts plus 3 different gmail work accounts so this works far better.

Ditto. I downloaded Airmail a couple months ago and rarely use Gmail these days because it's so much more convenient for me.

Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

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Post by justinreeves » Thu, Jul 18, 2013, 1:35 AM UTC

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-...

Do they really?

https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-2013

Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

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Post by gcb0 » Thu, Jul 18, 2013, 1:36 AM UTC

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)?

undo send is dumb and the worst name/implementation.

i'd either add a dialog (with default selected button being Cancel) or replace the Send button with a Preview button, which would show the message the same way you read a message, and there you would have the Send button.

Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

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Post by SourPatch » Thu, Jul 18, 2013, 1:39 AM UTC

Maybe I'm on the fringe, but the yahoo mail experience for me through a browser has been terrible since their last big iteration. It is often unresponsive to the point of being unusable.

Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

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Post by InAnEmergency » Thu, Jul 18, 2013, 1:42 AM UTC

glomph wrote: post #27

gsharma wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It bothers me that neither fastmail or freron have full screenshots of their interface. What reason can they have to not put a tour/screenshots section on the site?

They do offer a free trial although that isn't made obvious. Here is a screenshot I took on sign up: http://i.imgur.com/f7bhNVE.png

I had no idea that FastMail wasn't free any more until just now when I thought "why can't you just sign up and see it". I've been using it since 2002, although it hasn't been my primary email for a long time. Crazy.

Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

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Post by foxylad » Thu, Jul 18, 2013, 1:50 AM UTC

ValentineC wrote: post #41

I'm looking forward to a Yahoo Mail for Domains feature. If they introduce it, it could mean the nail in the coffin for Gmail.

Just checked: http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/email/

I was stung by the loss of free apps for domains, because I use Appengine and need several distinct email addresses per app. None of them need Drive or anything but email forwarding, so $50 per year per address means a considerable expense. Yahoo's $120 per ten addresses seems far more reasonable.

Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

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Post by Justsignedup » Thu, Jul 18, 2013, 1:57 AM UTC

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've honestly been appreciating Gmail more and more. I find their interface to be innovative and quickly becoming more and more streamlined and minimalistic. I love the new editing. RARELY do I need complex formatting, so their features solve my 90% needs well and sure I hit a bit of frustration 10% of the time when I need a feature i haven't used before.

With recent innovations I have less and less reason to use dedicated desktop apps. I honestly love every aspect of gmail.

The worst ATM is that desktop clients don't support the multiple inboxes that gmail introduced, so most clients think i have a ton of unread messages. So i wish google would come out with some desktop clients with multiple account support.

Edit: I usually see my email appear in my android app before I even see it in the desktop.