New Yahoo mail UI

[Leros]

I think it looks pretty nice. It's not 10x better than GMail, so nobody will be switching. It sure beats their previous 10 year old design.

 

[Printer Bandit]

pics

http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/8/4815194/redesigned-yahoo-mail-for-web-and-mobile

 

[Svnla]

I don't like it. I have this account for so long (10 + years) with all the stuffs in there or I would close it and go somewhere else.

 

[Fayd]

I don't understand why everyone doesn't use a client. Not that long ago, I thought they did. I then discovered I was the odd one out. Web apps suck. The only thing they're good for is emergency use when the other choice is nothing at all.

yeah, i don't get that either.

an email client is so much nicer than having to leave a browser window open all the time.

 

[osprey/echo]

Yahoo can be useful - global acceptance and moderately reliable servers - new UI appears recycled from earlier version - not annoying for me

"shortylickins" pls help with any thoughts you may have --- I have used Eudora for several decades (and continue, although Eudora is officially orphaned/deceased) - pls comment on Thunderbird - I must maintain a Eudora account for foreseeable future. Do you run Thunderbird under 64 bit environment? much appreciate your comments. yes my Eudora is related to academic/faculty position ( and with so many contacts difficult to set aside...)

my apologies and thank you to OP

 

[darkswordsman17]

And they changed it again. Now its like Gmail but with a different coat of paint (bit more visually appealing, although I could definitely see some people liking GMail's relative simplicity).

I'd actually like the new one but of course they turned on Conversation which I hate, and the performance is kinda crappy some. Its like it hangs up randomly for no reason.

Funny thing is, I'd gotten used to the tab setup from before but they got rid of that.

Also you used to be able to change the alias or whatever (the name that shows up when you send e-mails, not the e-mail address but the name part) but I can't find that anymore.

Also, writing a single e-mail they'll keep like a bunch of different drafts. I had like a 2 paragraph e-mail that they made 7 drafts for. And sometimes it shows drafts are there when the e-mail has been sent, but then you hit drafts and it gets rid of them finally.

Oh, and if you have your browser window not at full screen, it cramps up the message space stupidly. There was plenty of room but it left this big blank space to the right for no reason, while making the message space far narrower than necessary.

 

[lupi]

Yeah I hated the conversation. Was odd looking at the email list with some of them saying from "me".

Still don't know how the hell email was set on its own to be forwarded to me secondary email account which was input only as a security access means.

 

[SunnyD]

The new interface is horrible. Even horribler than the last one.

 

[Ichinisan]

Reread what he posted. He's not saying it's a personal rip off as in he's getting scammed or taken advantage of, he's stating that Yahoo copied a Google feature.

The proper term would have been "knock off."

 

[Ichinisan]

I don't understand why everyone doesn't use a client. Not that long ago, I thought they did. I then discovered I was the odd one out. Web apps suck. The only thing they're good for is emergency use when the other choice is nothing at all.

I haven't found a client that lets me do all the things Gmail does. Conversations + Labels fo lyfe.

 

[Ichinisan]

Seems they did just release a new update, and this conversation stuf is crap, that's been turned off already.

You'd rather delete/move 10+ related messages when you could just delete/label 1 conversation?

 

[Ichinisan]

Yahoo can be useful - global acceptance and moderately reliable servers - new UI appears recycled from earlier version - not annoying for me

"shortylickins" pls help with any thoughts you may have --- I have used Eudora for several decades (and continue, although Eudora is officially orphaned/deceased) - pls comment on Thunderbird - I must maintain a Eudora account for foreseeable future. Do you run Thunderbird under 64 bit environment? much appreciate your comments. yes my Eudora is related to academic/faculty position ( and with so many contacts difficult to set aside...)

my apologies and thank you to OP

Eudora! *shudders*

It's the most awful UI conceivable. It's only there because people got used to it that way and couldn't adjust to a normal email client.

Time to switch! Who is your email provider for the account you use in Eudora? Yahoo?

 

[osprey/echo]

thanks ichinisan, there are approx six hundred correspondent email addresses contained in my Eudora (literally located worldwide) and arranged in associated hierarchy for attachment to my outgoing emails. as some of these "addressees" n ever reply (over several decades) I have no confirmation that my revised email address has been noted/updated by that correspondent. so Eudora continues (for some - there are others in same position as myself) with only Thunderbird as possible upgrade path to retain associated database --- Outlook &/or others do not have this feature.

this relates to early internet/intranet www aspects now structured differently. presently I've isolated Eudora folder (some of which is actually "floating: online in ether) and used cloning to transfer to new hdd (as intact archeive).

of course with about 600 addressees and about 9000 emails the associated linkage (author / subject / keyword) is annoyingly complex and quite tangled --- the original reason I did not abandon Eudora 11 years ago.

 

[lupi]

You'd rather delete/move 10+ related messages when you could just delete/label 1 conversation?

conversation type messages I delete via my phone unless its one I want to keep.

 

[Ichinisan]

thanks ichinisan, there are approx six hundred correspondent email addresses contained in my Eudora (literally located worldwide) and arranged in associated hierarchy for attachment to my outgoing emails. as some of these "addressees" n ever reply (over several decades) I have no confirmation that my revised email address has been noted/updated by that correspondent. so Eudora continues (for some - there are others in same position as myself) with only Thunderbird as possible upgrade path to retain associated database --- Outlook &/or others do not have this feature.

this relates to early internet/intranet www aspects now structured differently. presently I've isolated Eudora folder (some of which is actually "floating: online in ether) and used cloning to transfer to new hdd (as intact archeive).

of course with about 600 addressees and about 9000 emails the associated linkage (author / subject / keyword) is annoyingly complex and quite tangled --- the original reason I did not abandon Eudora 11 years ago.

Yeah, I guess you know that Thunderbird can import contacts and messages from Eudora (and from practically everything else). Not sure about all these keywords and stuff. Importing to Thunderbird doesn't remove the data from Eudora, so there's no harm in trying.

 

[shortylickens]

I don't understand why everyone doesn't use a client. Not that long ago, I thought they did. I then discovered I was the odd one out. Web apps suck. The only thing they're good for is emergency use when the other choice is nothing at all.

A short while ago the Gmail page was actually really good, but they keep changing shit and now I am prefering Thunderbird.

Same with Yahoo mail. There was one really excellent version they had some time back and it was just as good if not better than Outlook.
Of course they had to fuck it up, and now I look forward to opening my Thunderbird and seeing everything nice and neat.

Like I said, only issue is my school email. They have instructions for Thunderbird 3, 4, and 5. Shame I using 24.

 

[lxskllr]

Like I said, only issue is my school email. They have instructions for Thunderbird 3, 4, and 5. Shame I using 24.

In what way does it fail? Tbird hasn't really changed in years aside from small bits here and there. They aren't developing it anymore. It's considered feature complete, and they're just doing security updates.

 

[Crono]

I just started using Thunderbird now that I've setup my own mail server.

Never did it before since it was always easier for me to use webmail since I have always (since the AOL days) used free email providers for my accounts, otherwise school/work accounts with Outlook.

It's nice going back to the old, but simple and clean Windows-style interface. So much faster and more convenient.