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Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

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Post by justin66 »

vorporeal wrote: post #25
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…

Social and Promotions should basically just contain the "unimportant crap". If something is mis-categorized, you can drag it to the correct section and Gmail should learn from its mistake. Also, as mentioned below, you can revert to the un-tabbed inbox by going to the Inbox section of the settings and disabling all tabs other than Primary, or by selecting one of the split inboxes (Unread first, Priority, etc). Discla…

> If something is mis-categorized, you can drag it to the correct section and Gmail should learn from its mistake.

The mistake is making me worry about this shit in the first place.

> Also, as mentioned below, you can revert to the un-tabbed inbox by going to the Inbox section of the settings and disabling all tabs other than Primary, or by selecting one of the split inboxes (Unread first, Priority, etc).

Thank you.

Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

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Post by justin66 »

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.

Compared to the UI feel of Gmail lately, it doesn't sound all that bad. I'm seriously thinking of giving it a try.

Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

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Post by lessnonymous »

malandrew wrote: post #77

I'm honestly surprised that there isn't yet any open-source software (client and server) that mimics Gmail but works with any IMAP service. If there is room for many email apps (Sparrow, Apple Mail, Mutt, Outlook, Thunderbird), there should be a market for many web-based email backends and there should be room for an open-source Gmail analogue that be people can extend and improve. Someone ought to make a web-mutt.

I run roundcube on my server for webmail access. It's a web-based IMAP client. I'm not sure what you want from a server that isn't already available in the existing open source IMAP servers.

Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

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Post by majika »

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…

If anyone's looking for a non-US alternative to Gmail due to PRISM, according to Fastmail's company info page [1] their servers are run by NYI [2], a hosting company based in New York.

That puts them out of the running for me.

[1]: https://www.fastmail.fm/help/overview_company_info.html

[2]: http://www.nyi.net/

Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

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Post by jarek »

tr4656 wrote: post #44
babuskov wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

- 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…

With high density displays these days, 1080p on a 13" laptop or other smaller laptops is possible

It might be possible, but sadly it's rarely been done at any reasonable screen quality. And it seems like an overkill to choose a laptop based on its resolution when you could just have the app not waste space instead.

Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

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Post by calebegg »

foxylad wrote: post #59
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.

You can use Google Apps' "groups" feature to get forwarding. You can also set a catch-all address that gets email sent to any valid address at your domain.

Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

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Post by alttab »

jiggy2011 wrote: post #78
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 don't understand the logic behind the new tiny compose window, it looks like something from an IM program. If I'm composing an email surely the most important thing is the thing I am composing, so why give it 1/4 of the screen space? The second most important thing is the email I am replying to, but the compose window pops up over the top of that obscuring a chunk of it.

Whats even more confusing, is when I double-click on users I used to use to g-chat to, it pulls up the message and I end up e-mailing them instead of messaging them. This is easier to do now that the e-mail window looks like a chat window.

I've noticed others doing this as well. They e-mail me without a subject and its context is from a recent chat.

Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

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Post by [deleted] »

vorporeal wrote: post #25
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…

Social and Promotions should basically just contain the "unimportant crap". If something is mis-categorized, you can drag it to the correct section and Gmail should learn from its mistake. Also, as mentioned below, you can revert to the un-tabbed inbox by going to the Inbox section of the settings and disabling all tabs other than Primary, or by selecting one of the split inboxes (Unread first, Priority, etc). Discla…

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Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

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Post by auctiontheory »

Simucal wrote: post #65
thejosh wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tabbed inbox is terrible. Click the gear icon on the right, then click 'Configure Inbox' Untick every checkbox but Primary, then click Save. It's now saner.

I realize this is subjective, but I personally love the tabbed inbox. Having all the "promotional" emails I get sent moved to a separate tab where I only have to look at them when I want to has completely tamed my inbox. My primary tab now only has messages that I care about. I only wish it was implemented in a way that all clients could utilize it. I personally don't use the Gmail iOS client because I have several w…

That's what Filters and Labels are for.

Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

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Post by auctiontheory »

vorporeal wrote: post #25
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…

Social and Promotions should basically just contain the "unimportant crap". If something is mis-categorized, you can drag it to the correct section and Gmail should learn from its mistake. Also, as mentioned below, you can revert to the un-tabbed inbox by going to the Inbox section of the settings and disabling all tabs other than Primary, or by selecting one of the split inboxes (Unread first, Priority, etc). Discla…

When I receive "unimportant crap," I either unsubscribe to the list that sent it, or mark it as spam.

I do not leave crap lying around and then add another management dimension to my Inbox to deal with it.

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