I'd love to see Yahoo! differentiate itself from its competitors by becoming a privacy conscious company.
Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore
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Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore
#62I really think Yahoo Mail has seriously improved over the past couple of years. I've had an account with them for over 10 years and while gmail originally had more features, I find Yahoo Mail's UI experience superior.
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#63GMail 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…
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.
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#64There 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…
This, plus a spam filter that is Gmail quality or better. This was the biggest problem I had with Y!Mail back in the day.
Re: Yahoo Mail is not catching up anymore
#65GMail 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…
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 work inboxes that I want unified with my personal email.
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#66I'm looking forward to a Yahoo Mail for Domains feature. If they introduce it, it could mean the nail in the coffin for Gmail.
For what it's worth, Outlook.com now offers free mail hosting for your domain, up to I think 150 addresses.
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#67If 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…
Another happy Fastmail user here. I don't use webmail, so I can't speak to that, but their IMAP service has been 100% reliable for me.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Undo send is great. It lets you undo the one time in a hundred that you make a mistake. Your solution would require that everybody click through an additional dialog on every single email sent.
Letting people recover from uncommon mistakes is better than ham-fisted and annoying mechanisms that attempt to prevent the mistake.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Neither the dialog nor the preview solves the problem that an undo button solves.
If a dialog or preview comes up for every message you send, you just develop a new habit for sending mail (press the send button, then press the send button again on the dialog / preview). If anything, it just creates more of a hassle for the user.
The undo button is for that 'Oh crap!' moment, when your auto-pilot lead you astray.
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#70Earlier 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…
Eh, that's what priority inbox vs. non is for for me, and that works in the GMail Android app, at least.