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Yahoo! Mail beta upgrade brings new features (V0.3.3 Build 314.7)
The past couple of days have seen a lot of activity on the Yahoo! Mail Beta group, with several of the members reporting a new version hitting the servers.Unlike the past couple of updates, this one brings in new features for us:
- Home Page changes
- Calendar Bar
- Map integration
- Options pages integrated with client
Expect to see this pushed through to all users over the next few days.
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Subscribe to commentsSean HackbarthAug 14th 2006 12:20AM
Any upgrade to Yahoo Mail is pointless until they get their spam under control. I've had an account for years and have played with the anti-spam settings and have only seen an increase in spam. UI and features are nice but wading through hundreds of spams a day means I won't use the service.
HefferAug 14th 2006 2:59AM
Sean - You gotta quick visiting those internet porn sites. Yahoo, and their spam control, works great for me. Haven't wasted time telling them what to and not to send to my bulk mail. It just knows.
DeadpresidentAug 14th 2006 5:02AM
Looks good with drag and drop features. Feels a little heavy though. Overall - better than what they had before
MikeAug 14th 2006 7:00AM
I have to agree, I recently converted all of my stuff to Gmail and only use my yahoo account for public postings such as this. As of right now I have 947 spam msgs in the inbox and 2241 in the bulk mail after having cleared both just a week ago.
I really appreciate all the new toys and layouts and such, but in the end, until they can get their spam under control, it's nothing but a trash account for me.
Chris PriceAug 14th 2006 7:56AM
I much prefer Y! Spam filtering over Hotmail.
I've had both addresses since early mid 1990's and so they've been harvested for a long time.
Y! moves most of the spam into the Spam folder, with the Inbox getting a couple of 'nigerian' spam type messages a day.
Hotmail just lets everything in, so much that I just can't use it - similar to your current experience with Y! Mail.
BryanAug 14th 2006 8:53AM
I can’t say enough good things about Yahoo Mail Beta. It really is better than my other accounts (MSN, Verizon, Gmail). I created a new one for my Yahoo music unlimited account (in the past year), so I do not have the same spam issues that others might have with 5 year old accounts. It is really cool when reading blogs at work. The RSS feature allows me to see all the blogs I read on one page with the full articles posted in the order by time(turn 16 blogs into 1). It even includes the pictures. The email portion of the page is amazing as well. It works just like an installed program, even though it’s all online. I have yet to hit a bug (can't say the same for the Music Unlimited Beta test), and I do not have these new features yet either. I look forward to checking them out.
Keep up the good work, and please let me ditch the purple.
Sean HackbarthAug 14th 2006 9:57PM
Over the years I've marked thousands of messages as spam, but Yahoo Mail only gets a handful into the spam folder. Right now, I have 2900 new messages. At most all but 20 will be spam. So any new bells and whistles are meaningless to me until spam is under control.
Chris PriceAug 14th 2006 10:01PM
I'm intrigued as to why we have completely opposite experiences.
I get very little Spam in my Inbox from Yahoo - maybe 5 a day (usually Nigerian scammers). I have 2700+ in my Spam folder, I don't care about that - I just let it delete (although I would like the Search feature in my Spam as well as the other folders).
I'm not even a Plus user - I let the expire earlier this year.
TheBizofKnowledgeAug 15th 2006 4:42AM
I just wanted to chime in and say that I don't have any problems with spam on my newer Yahoo accounts (created within the last three years or so). Yeah, if your ID was created back in the mid-'90s and has been around the block a few times, I'd expect you to see a lot of spam. I don't think Yahoo is better than Gmail, but it's a close second.
James northSep 3rd 2006 10:43PM
When I went to yahoo mail beta, it got a clitch in it and went back to the old style yahoo mail. How do i get the new yahoo beta to come back?? I don't want the old one anymore. can you help me?
talking talkingSep 15th 2006 9:45AM
Post number 5 (chris),
is a SPAM himself because Yahoo mail and Hotmail were introduced after mid 1990s (and not early/mid 1990s as he said)...stop talking trash.