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Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

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Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

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Post by ReidZB »

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 can do this just fine.

However, it has a really nifty feature that makes this idea work much better, in my opinion. You can configure FastMail to use "virtual domains" that will reroute b@a.example.com to a+b@example.com. (To use this, you need a MX record for *.example.com, but that's fine.)

So, for example, I may sign up for a SpammyService with the email spammy@myemail.mydomain.com. Then all emails from SpammyService will be redirected to myemail+spammy@mydomain.com, which will then be filed in the appropriate folder.

This lets me (1) get around services that disallow plus signs in emails and (2) not let an automated system know that I'm auto-filing their emails (and potentially deleting them, etc.)

Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

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Post by airtonix »

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…

actually you can change it. settings / inbox / type

Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

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Post by ReidZB »

stock_toaster wrote: post #7
wellboy wrote: post #3

The "best" email client now is one run by a non NSA-company using Ajax, so not Gmail, neither Yahoomail. Anyone knows good ones?

I like fastmail. Their two-factor auth leaves something to be desired though -- I also wish there was an imap/smtp only password type.

Agreed on the two-factor auth bit: their implementation seems a bit wacky. (At least, their Google Authenticator TOTP implementation. It seemed like their Yubikey implementation was pretty good, but I don't have a Yubikey.)

However, their "alternative login" thing is pretty useful. I have separate (completely random) passwords for the IMAP sync for my phone and work machine, so I can revoke those at any time without touching the master password. In some sense, that setup is similar to the one Google has for two-factor auth and service-specific passwords.

Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

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Post by bad_user »

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…

Personally I like the inline reply UI and the new compose window. I actually like every change that they did, including the new tabbed Inbox.

Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

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Post by iopq »

I use Opera Mail for GMail, but I installed Y! Mail for Android after reading this because GMail somehow sucks at sending pictures with my phone. Now that I've tried it, Yahoo is much faster. Thanks.

Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

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Post by robk »

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…

I can't see how Sieve is significantly better than Gmail rules. Reading the examples, I seem to have the ability to do everything listed, with the exception of actually rejecting messages (versus quietly deleting/archiving).

Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

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Post by surfmike »

kmfrk wrote: post #48
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…

Even though I've used Opera for over ten years, it kinda bums me that they acquired fastmail.fm, because I don't really know where I see Opera three years from now. Ideally, I'd like a Pinboard for e-mail.

Could you elaborate on what you mean by "a Pinboard for e-mail"?

Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore

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Post by smegel »

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 really wonder about google product development sometimes. Its like it really is done by interns with "bright ideas" but not much common sense.
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