Yahoo Rolls out Updated eMail

[PunkyLZ]

I was just finally able to login to my email account on Yahoo and was greeted with a pleasant surprise 100MB of space! So what are your thoughts on the new Yahoo email?

Seems pretty much the same as the old Yahoo, but just additional space...and a little longer to load.

[Jake51]

All of Yahoo! seems to be somewhat slow today. Wonder if if has anything to do with their announcement they are freeing up "tens of millions" of dormant e-mail names coupled with the additional space?

Personally, I like the new look and feel. But then again, I've been a fan of Yahoo! for years.

[richkoi]

100 mb! I am sure this will give a little competition to Gmail.

Well, it is much needed relief to my Yahoo mailbox, but I really like the idea of Gmail...we'll see you wins this battle.

Rich

[george_uk]

now if only they could start updating their search results..............geeze about time!

[PunkyLZ]

Agreed...it certainly would be nice if the results were updated!

On Friday I did notice that a client we signed on 2 weeks ago appeared in the #1 position for several main keyword phrases I optimized the site for. As of yesterday the results were back to where they were prior to the optimization efforts, including the old title tags and meta-tags. Double checked to see if the client uploaded the old site for some reason, but that wasn't the case. Maybe there's an update on the way!

[Conficio]

Hi everybody,
the update is really Google-like.

For Yahoo!Plus customers, it is a limit of 2GB + no graphical ads (should give us some speed).

Good lord!

K<o>

[cricketmania]

Good Move with great design. Lets see who wins.

[scot184]

The search results do change, at least for my queries. My placement jumps around all the time based on the changes I make to my pages. What exactly do you want the search results to change to? You #1? =)

[vbarrio]

Yahoo has the best spam filter I have seen by far and now with the additional space it is a pretty robust email client.

[MaineWeb]

I've been using Yahoo mail for over 5 years and this is the first real update I can remember. I did notice things were slow yesterday and there were some strange happenings, but now I don't have to clean out my inbox every week and I can attach 5 files, where I think it was 3 before. Their spam filter is very good and, so that alone keeps me there.

[vandda]

Seriously folks, who really cares if you have 100MB or 1000MB. What I think really matters with Gmail is that it SIMPLY WORKS BETTER.

1. You can use keyboard shortcuts to navigate around. Yes, I'm a DOS fan.
2. It stores & retrieves emails faster/easier than Outlook when sending email - this is a plus, because I don't know anyone by their email address, and the address book in Yahoo sucks.
3. It archives 'conversations' much better than any 'traditional' email system.
4. The search function is to die for. Love that!
5. The print function rules
6. replying to email is almost too intuitive

What I really hope comes out of this is that Google sells something like their search appliance, only for email, that hosting companies can use to provide web-based email for their clients. Frankly, I've hated every single web mail contraption I've ever used, save for the Lotus Notes web mail tools, which integrate nicely with your server copy, and hold your address book and calendar intact.

[GiftsForYouBiz]

I was offered a GMail account, the e-mail said, because of my being a 'valued AdWords customer' :)

Unfortunately, I didn't take them up on the offer. After copy/pasting the user agreement/terms into WordPad, so I could blow up the text a bit, there were two things that turned me back ...

1. "Reserve the right to 'monitor' e-mails", to me, it read like they reserve the right to read all my e-mails. Don't get me wrong, I know that there are at least about 12 people along my e-mail's path to its intended recipient that can (and perhaps do) read my e-mails, but I don't really care to say, go ahead and read away. If its a legal thing, then by all means, read it all. Otherwise, please stay out of my e-mail, or legal could be on my side. There is still the 'expectation of privacy'. Although e-mail does pass through many hands, its still considered 'private', UNO.

2. "For personal use only" was my kicker. I e-mail my wife, and perhaps my parents once in awhile, but what do I need with 1Gb of space for that for. I'd like to use it like hotmail for my business, which for a non-spammer/fraud-type person, it's a means to help cut down on spammers and fraud-type people.

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[blueskies]

I like the new format. The 100MB of space is great.

Yahoo's bulk mail spam filter is really good. You can even opt for them to just delete it and you never have to see it. I checked it for months before I selected that option and they were always correct about spam.

I agree with GiftsForYouBiz about Gmail, and I won't be using it.

[OneMoreBite]

I think it's great. Any time they want to give me more goodies, I'm all for it. I look at these accounts as free storage, and nothing more. They are also still useful as throw-away accounts, lots of storage or no.

I'm still not trusting enough to put any important e-mail on someone else's server - but that's just me. G-mail is in beta after all - they could pull the plug, and then what?

Kathryn

[HellaCooL]

I think that Google waited way too long and gave Yahoo time to react. And they are still waiting...
If I still had only 6MB I would probably switch to a new account with Google. Now with 100MB I will not even think about switching. It’s too much hassle to switch when you had the same e-mail address for a long time. From 6MB to 1000MB it would be worth switching, but now, I don’t think so.
I will probably open Gmail account, but not as a primary.

[mikmik]

Let's see, Gmail.

I can get all my newsletters there, I get teck, WebDev, Marketting, and programming.

I can save them each into distinct folders called Label's, oh here:

Labels are like email folders, only better. By adding a label to a conversation, you get the benefits of folders. But Google takes the concept one step further. You can add multiple labels to a conversation -- something you can't do with folders. Once you've created a label, you can view all the conversations with that label by searching or by selecting the label in the navigation bar.

If you decide that you want to remove a label from a message or conversation, just follow these steps:

1. Click the label in the green 'Labels' box on the left side of your screen in which the message or conversation is categorized.
2. Select the message or conversation you would like to remove by checking the box next to the sender's name.
3. Click the 'Remove label "[label name]"' box along the top or bottom of your screen.

Any message or conversation you remove a label from remains in your inbox, or in All Mail, depending on its original location

So they read my email?
They are honest about it. What, you think that someone should just GIVE YOU FOR FREE a service and then pander to your complaints???

I mean, how many archiving, organizing, sorting, searching, CMS software programs for email alone are there out there? 100's, 1000's???

Like, I can search my e-mails for articles they contained, that I only vaguely remember the details, only that they had an important article on "Foo"...using the Google search engine?

Did I hear myself say "Where you been all my life, baby?" LOL

Free? I don't care about Yahoo's shortcomings either, I like to hear what they are, and the strengths of anything, of course. But it is FREE!

I have to look at an ad or two???

At least I know where it is coming from. I trust Google and Yahoo, Far, FarFARFAR FAR more than the spam and 'untraceable ads' that I can only keep track of who is responsible with throw away accounts, uniquely addressed for each subscription, or form I ever fill out.

So, 10 Mb size for individual e-mails? I can mail videos to my family now, software to my ...everyone?lol

Did someone say "Merry Christmas?"

Hell, the socks I get at christmas, the neon green ones, even they have to be used when my grandmother comes around. (Facts have been fabricated to illustrate a point only)

Peace :O)

[edhan]

Having 100Mb space is indeed a welcoming news to all who are currently using Yahoo. With this increase space, we no longer worry about huge attachment with our correspondence. Indeed this is a pretty smart move to hold us back using the service.

Edward

[Dave Hawley]

Good on Google, they have really shaken up the world of free email accounts. If it weren't for them, Yahoo, Hotmail etc would have done zip.

I been using Gmail for about a week now and it is cool! I hope the big G wins the war and the battle.

[MekhongKurt]

I may as well pick up my hymnal and join the choir. I was MOST surprised, and most pleasantly so, to be greeted yesterday with the news my storage had leaped to 100 Mb. And I had 6 already, as I was a customer of Rocketmail when Yahoo bought that out some years back and not only allowed me to keep my address but also to have 6 Mb, half again as much as allowed regular Yahoo customers at the time.

However, recently I've been having some issues with the spam filters -- the praises for them in this thread somewhat throw me, though of course I'm glad for those posters the filters are working well. Anyway, I was thinking about going to the trouble to go to a paid Yahoo account then having everything auto-forwarded to my own website mailbox. But with this great storage challenge to Gmail, I ain't budging, not for now anyway.

My 2 cents on Google reading my e-mail, even with a machine only and even only to serve up relevant ads: Wrong approach with me, and, if postings around the Web are to be believed, with a LOT of other folks as well. That's going to be a really, really, really hard sell, I suspect.

[Dave Hawley]

Hi Edward

Are you aware that a Spam Filter also reads you mail in much the same way as google does for relevant ads? This one of the reasons I like gmail, the ads are actually of interest to me.

I would also not be suprised if Yahoo, HotMail etc have other bots scanning emails. Google have just be open and up-front.

[edhan]

Hi Dave

Is that so? Oh, I didn't know that. Thanks for the info. I will check it out. I will also try out Gmail to see the difference.

Edward

[wclew]

I like the look and feel of the new yahoo mail account. And, like the rest of you, I love the 100 MB of space! I was always battling that 6 MB limit, usually I was over the limit. This will be much nicer.

[Dave Hawley]

I have to admit, it will good not to have 1000's of @yahoo.com newsletters bounce back. It just like 1000 new subscribers signing up!