The powerful new Yahoo! Mail beta will open up for general use starting today. Richard MacManus has a great post and podcast interview about the product that will roll out to all users in 18 countries over the next two weeks. There’s a lot of cool new features, but GMail still stands apart in some important ways. Update: You can now try out the beta at new.mail.yahoo.com.
Mike Arrington posted an early review of the beta when RSS was first rolled into the email client in November. He called the new Yahoo! Mail “an incredibly awesome product.”
In addition to adding RSS subscription functionality inside your email inbox, which as MacManus points out will probably make Yahoo! Mail the most widely used RSS reader on the planet, there are many more new features to watch for.
The big picture is that Yahoo! is aiming to use ajax to make it’s mail client function like a desktop client. Email messages can be dragged from one folder to another, multiple emails can be open at one time in tabs inside Yahoo! Mail and there’s calendar integration tied to Yahoo! Maps. Blog posting, possibly to a Yahoo! domain that will run more of the company’s ads, and IM both appear to be available through the webmail client as well. These sound like powerful new features.
What’s Gmail got to offer that could top that? A number of things, actually. Yahoo! Mail doesn’t offer the tabbed conversations Gmail does, doesn’t appear to allow emails to be tagged and will still have to prove itself in spam protection and mail search. I don’t know whether Yahoo! Mail allows attachments like PDF and Excel files to be viewed as HTML, but that’s a very nice GMail feature as well. There’s no word yet whether Yahoo! will increase the storage of free accounts from 1GB to something closer to GMail’s 2.5+GB or increase the 10mb limit on attachments.
In other words, I think there’s still plenty of reasons to stay with GMail for now, but those for whom Yahoo! Mail is well suited are likely to be quite happy with it. Several of the new features, like RSS, drag and drop organization and calendar/maps could become a new standard in future offerings from other companies. It’s a good product that will change how hundreds of millions of people experience webmail and RSS.
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i want to go back to my old yahoo mail
i don’t like yahoo mail beta but i don’t to how to go back from yahoo mail beta to yahoo mail
I can not open my mail in mail beta since last week
please send an e-mail to
vibha.patel@yahoo com
that how to swich
Subhash
Please creat my yahoo mail beta
the new beta email is cramped on MY screen and difficult to read the categories. If the image on my screen matched the learning modules, I’d be happy. NOW im stuck with a poorly visible Email interface wishing I could return to the prior system from yesterday! I can’t find a way to return to the old system!!! any ideas???
Yahoo mail beta is incredible slow and difficult to read. I would like to go back to the old yahoo mail version.
Yahoo mail beta is difficult to read and operate,I would kindly request to go back to the old yahoo mail version.Request action as soon as possible and advise by e-mail. Thank you. sent October 24, 200
my hameemmca_ct@yahoo.co.in not opening.
I figured out how to get the old back. Go to options (upper right) click on it and select the old one. But I still lost all of my saved folders and information that I can’t get again!!!!! They should have thought of that and warned us instead of throwing this in our laps and not knowing it was even possable…….grrrrrrr
yahoo mail beta is loging to the error
Bot beta and regular mail are slowed down by adds Yahoo is cluttering the screen with. The servers on which the ads are linked from are extremely slow and before the ads show there is nothing one can do, not even switching tabs within IE or Firefox. This is unacceptable. I am considering a move to Gmail as a result. Yahoo should get its priorities right and it does not seem very willing to do that. They are going to lose a lot of customers because of their silly policy.
I dont wont beta take it out, I wont to go back to hotmail without beta,
plecse show me how to take beta off or out of my computer.
i wood like my old yahoo mail back. i have tried the new way. and there is to much going on one page. one thing at a time is what i want. please put me back to my old yahoo mail please please sylvia
I dont wont beta take it out, I wont to go back to hotmail without beta,
plecse show me how to take beta off or out of my computer
pliz, i want to activate the old version of yahoo mail
Me too! I hate it- and all my folders with important info disappeared! Why didn’t they let us know that?
is the beta (hotmail and yahoo) free? i only want to use it if it is free!!! tell me is it is free. i need to know. i want to use them!!!!
I have escalated this issue with Beta support twice:
As needed, I can change the *text size* of email *messages* (as in pre-beta yahoo)
On original yahoo, a change in text size also changes the text size of the main mail page, i.e., folder names, sender, recipient, subject line, date, etc.
THE MAIN PAGE OF ATT/YAHOO BETA does NOT change from the font in its “fixed display” These days, the BETA main email page is the only thing I must use spectacles in order to read. Since my spectacles are bifocal, I’d have to purchase another pair with a “straight ahead” grinding.
I ain’t gonna spend for looking at one single screen. If they don’t fix this lack of a feature, and suppress the current email, I’d have to quit yahoo, and also ATT
how do i down load java scrip for my E mail and I want to go back to the newer E mail version
how do i get back on my beta site?
for getting relation withmy friend in the world
I hate the new one. And there was no warning that I would loose all my previous folders that I had some important stuff in. I want the old one back and don’t know how to get it. Ugh……….
my space for android goes live but wher’s the music
Despite net connection,yahoo mail will not open,why???
I want to switch over to yahoo mail beta I enjoy it more than yahoo classics. Thanks for your quick action
I do not like the new Yahoo mail,n how can i switch back to the old
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