Tag: YAHOO-MAIL

While a number of free webmail services including Gmail offers users POP3 or IMAP access for use with an external mail applications like Outlook or Thunderbird, Yahoo! considers this a premium feature and requires you to pony up $20 a year for POP3 access. Paying customers also get some other nifty features like an ad-free interface. But if you just want to use Outlook to send and receive email, ...

Yahoo! has been talking about ways that the company can use social networking-style features to improve the email inbox. Now the company is rolling out a minor update to Yahoo! Mail that could certainly save you a lot of time and hassle, because it lets you sort your email messages so that you only wind up seeing emails from your contacts. Here's how it works. First, you have to set up a Yahoo! ...

Yahoo! has released a desktop email and personal information management client called Zimbra Desktop. It's based on the Zimbra email, calendar, and contact service that Yahoo! purchased a few years ago for $350 million. And that explains why the desktop client looks so much like the latest version of Yahoo!'s web based email service. The interesting thing is that Zimbra Desktop doesn't just ...

Affixa is a utility that can integrate your Gmail or Yahoo! Mail account with Windows.. First of all, once you install Affixa, you can set your webmail account as your default email service. That means when you use the "send" buttons in programs like Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat, or Windows Explorer, Affixa can automatically open a browser window, create a blank message in Gmail or Yahoo! Mail ...

Yahoo! has been talking about plans to make its web-based email inbox smarter and more social by integrating other web services for months. Now the company is spelling out what that means a bit more clearly. VentureBeat reports the company held an event today where it showed off a demo of the next generation email inbox with a new sidebar with support for web applications like WordPress, Xoopit, ...

Does it frustrate you that even though you can add HTML links in the content of your email when creating it in Gmail, you can't add an HTML link to your signature? It sure frustrates me. Many webmail services have very limited signature editors, making it difficult to create a compelling signature. If you would like to use more than just plain text in your signature for your webmail account, give ...

The email subject line. The bane of our existence. Back when Download Squad was just a wee little blog, we used to communicate the old fashioned way, by sending letters in the mail and waiting a week for them to arrive. It may not have been the most efficient way to keep in touch, but at least we didn't have to write subject lines. Fortunately, Yahoo! has a hidden feature designed for the ...

There are plenty of ways to get a custom email address. You can sign up for service with Mail.com and choose from a number of custom domains. Or you can register a domain and use Google Apps to link it with an email account for free. But if you're a Yahoo! Mail fan, you might find that getting the domain name you want isn't the hard part. It's getting the prefix. About 266 million people use ...

It's been a while since we've seen a compelling new browser start page. There was a real flurry of start pages a year or two ago when the likes of Google Personalized Start Page (now iGoogle), NetVibes, Pageflakes, and a myriad of other copycat sites launched. Strangely, even with such an amazing variety of start pages to choose from, we've never found any of them to be particularly compelling. ...

Yahoo! has added the ability to view photos in email messages as slideshows without downloading them first. Honestly, we're not entirely certain when this feature was added, but it was brought to our attention by a reader comment. When we looked into it, we found that at least five months ago, there was no photo slideshow feature. And now there is. So we're going to call it a new feature. In ...

Hot on the heels of Google announcing their integration of the Postini security solutions into Gmail through their acquisition, Yahoo! lets us know that they are upgrading their Spam filters. Yahoo! Mail will be releasing a new security upgrade to their email system that is said to block spam, particularly all that junk you might be getting for eBay and PayPal scams. They call the new technology ...