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Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

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Re: Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

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Post by Surio »

A (Outlook?)Hotmail and Yahoo! loyalist here like a few others Hi fellow Yahooistas ;-)

I love the concept of creating directories to categorise mails (Thumbs up to Hotmail and Yahoo just for that). The tabbed email feature is also a very big plus for me in Yahoo. Hotmail's quick clean up and other nifty features are also really good.

Anyhow, the changes haven't come to my inbox yet, but the wife showed me her "brand new" Inbox. WoW. Kudos to them. Really really nice..... Very responsive and sleek. I had really appreciated the new changes on Outlook/Hotmail so far, and now this from Yahoo!. Yahoo! ;-)

I have always had a soft spot for Yahoo!, because they were among the first when the internet boomed, to build new software infrastructure technology around it, and they also built it to scale (well). So much of the internet infrastructure that is both standardised and taken for granted is, in one way or another, thanks to Yahoo!'s early and pioneering efforts.

So, I am actually a little bit grateful for what they've done to move the Internet forward. Seems like they are back in contention along with Hotmail in ret(g)aining their user base. I sincerely wish them well.

P.S: I've never got spam on Yahoo! mail as well.

Re: Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

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Post by rubyrescue »

wheels wrote: post #21
Nux wrote: post #11

I'm really sorry to say, but: too late. Literally 99% of those I know used to be a Yahoo Mail user (Y! Messenger still biggish in Romania, though loosing ground quickly to social networks), but a big part of them are using GMail now. Big, ugly ads and an "anti"-spam engine that makes SpamAssassin look good; what's there to come back to? Plus everyone has a smartphone/tablet now and what's that without a Google/GMail…

Don't let reality get in the way of your anecdote about what your friends use! http://www.campaignmonitor.com/resources/will-it-work/email-... Yahoo Mail is still more popular than GMail.

great quote. will reuse with my dev team.

Re: Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

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Post by Surio »

wheels wrote: post #21
Nux wrote: post #11

I'm really sorry to say, but: too late. Literally 99% of those I know used to be a Yahoo Mail user (Y! Messenger still biggish in Romania, though loosing ground quickly to social networks), but a big part of them are using GMail now. Big, ugly ads and an "anti"-spam engine that makes SpamAssassin look good; what's there to come back to? Plus everyone has a smartphone/tablet now and what's that without a Google/GMail…

Don't let reality get in the way of your anecdote about what your friends use! http://www.campaignmonitor.com/resources/will-it-work/email-... Yahoo Mail is still more popular than GMail.

Don't let reality get in the way of your anecdote about what your friends use!

+1 for the way you framed it. :-D

I might be reusing it as well.

Re: Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

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Post by devb0x »

dchest wrote: post #4

Do they still remove everything from your account if you don't login to the web interface for some time?

This sucked and was the reason i stopped using them. I dont care enough to try them again now, purely because I lost mail this way

Re: Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

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Post by baudehlo »

wheels wrote: post #21
Nux wrote: post #11

I'm really sorry to say, but: too late. Literally 99% of those I know used to be a Yahoo Mail user (Y! Messenger still biggish in Romania, though loosing ground quickly to social networks), but a big part of them are using GMail now. Big, ugly ads and an "anti"-spam engine that makes SpamAssassin look good; what's there to come back to? Plus everyone has a smartphone/tablet now and what's that without a Google/GMail…

Don't let reality get in the way of your anecdote about what your friends use! http://www.campaignmonitor.com/resources/will-it-work/email-... Yahoo Mail is still more popular than GMail.

Bear in mind that Gmail by default doesn't display images, so their tracking won't work for gmail unless users click "Always show images from ...".

I don't know whether Yahoo displays images by default or not.

Re: Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

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Post by sdafdasdfasdf »

The screenshots are horribly small with no way to resize, so I can't tell what is better than Gmail.

If it had 2 factor auth and a way to trust a particular machine or application (which I think it does?), SMTP and IMAP were free (are they? used to have to pay), there were no ads (even though GMail's aren't terrible), and it guaranteed it would not delete my account or email if unused for years, if it guaranteed a better uptime than GMail (which is already good enough), had contact dupe fixer as good as or better than GMail, had plugin for Thunderbird, etc. to keep contacts in sync so didn't have to use a 3rd party free plugin that breaks at times, and I could see that it was easier to use than GMail, and they guaranteed great security (better than GMail) and that they didn't ever look at the content of my mail or my contacts, that they would never sell me out to anyone, that they were as conspiracy-conscious as I was and apolitical, and if it allowed clutter-free integration with Facebook, etc. to mine them for email addresses when I connected to someone, and if they hated spam and would help me organize my life with easy calendar integration to every major smartphone and other devices, share calendar only with family or have other calendars to share with diff groups, get things done without integrating a tasklist, and ignore the stupid stuff, and guarantee email for life, then I might use it.

Re: Introducing the New Yahoo Mail

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Post by dsl »

tszming wrote: post #16

It would be even more compelling if Yahoo start to offer free email service on custom domain as Google apps is no longer free. For the interface, I am not saying the new interface is bad, but even Yahoo! can make it as good as Gmail (forget the search first), still not a reason to switch..

A good part of the value (for Yahoo) is the branding. It's more important to them right now to remind consumers that Yahoo still exists than cater to a handful of geeks with vanity domains.
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