Comments on: Why Yahoo Mail is Still an Epic Catastrophe

By: Samuel

Samuel — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 02:41:10 +0000

Leo,

My grandmother has since passed away since I wrote this article (on January 3, 2009) so I unfortunately cannot give her a new e-mail address anymore. Here is what I recall: I logged into her e-mail at about 3pm, I’m not sure what day. It wasn’t the date you see in the screenshot because I took that screenshot *after* I gave up deleting SPAM manually. She was very organized with the folders, but certainly not tech-savvy. This e-mail address of hers was about a year old, she hadn’t logged in for two weeks, but the e-mail address was much older than that.

She told me that she used to just check the boxes and delete the SPAM e-mail one at a time each time she would log in. So, I proceeded to do that — but gave up quickly because it was never ending! That’s when I looked over and noticed that Yahoo somehow thought that only 75 of those e-mails were SPAM.

What a joke. Sorry, but that didn’t cut it in 2008, 2009, or 2010. I’ll give Yahoo a try again soon and report with a new article to see if they’ve improved their game.

By: leo

leo — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 02:08:49 +0000

Are you sure the screenshot you posted is of a new Yahoo account and the 2293 inbox messages were from a two weeks’ period of time? First, it has lots of folders — it seems that your grandma is really tech-savy and very well organized to get ready for all kinds of incoming mails within a short period of time after she got the account. Second, if there are 2293 inboxed spam messages from 2 weeks period of time, why there are only 6 from 12/11/08? 2293/14=164, so there should be on average 164 messages per day that get into the inbox, unless you dropped by your grandma’s place and logged into her account at 1am in the morning on that particular day. My suggestion is, do your grandma a favor and get her a fresh, newly registered Yahoo mail account instead of a second-hand, left-over one from your cousin. It is free after all.

By: xtachx

xtachx — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 04:11:59 +0000

Samuel,

I found a way to spam-clean yahoo mailboxes. It works reasonably well. I wrote you an email. Pls check it out and tell me. If you think its useful pls publish it!

The article is here: http://vinuthomas.com/Forums/viewtopic/p=101785.html#101785

Hope it helps someone … even if it helps 1 person I will be satisfied.

By: Samuel

Samuel — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 03:58:27 +0000

xtachx,

Incredible nonsense is almost an understatement; nobody is going to do that. What a mess. Yahoo is publicly traded, they have engineers on staff and plenty of money. There must be some really good reason why they can’t tell their engineers to “fix it and make it work like Gmail.” Maybe I’ll get someone from Yahoo to interview with us.

-Admin

By: xtachx

xtachx — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 03:38:56 +0000

Yahoo does have IMAP. However, their brilliant programmers have made it unusable. This is how you use it:

You need to append this commnd before the login command for IMAP

“ID (“GUID” “1″)”

This is an incredible nonsense. No standard IMAP clients come with this pre-built. You have to “engineer” the source code every f***in time. Brilliant!!

I have switched to Gmail, but my Yahoo mailbox has been overrun with spam, and I still have old mail / memories in that mailbox. I am trying to find a way to spam clean this shit.

By: mike biddell

mike biddell — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 09:01:29 +0000

You are absolutely right. Yahoo’s biggest failing is that they do not listen.

By: Mortimer Aloofus

Mortimer Aloofus — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:22:32 +0000

I have a yahoo mailbox that I only use for things like product registrations and whatnot – things that I know for a fact will only SPAM me to death. Although Yahoo has responded to complaints similar to yours and the volume of SPAM I get DAILY (I can watch it come in minute by minute) has decreased from 2-3 THOUSAND (per day..seriously! yowzers, those were bad days) to only a few dozen (still by far the worst amount of all available services, including Excite which is nothing but SPAM central) – yahoo is still the “yucky stain on the blue dress” of email. Never mind their lack of features, never mind wanting people to pay for the privilege of getting spammed to death, it’s just quite simply the worst thing you could do to yourself if you simply wanted a free online mailbox to use while you’re out on the road. Boo YAHOO! So yeah, if I’m just going to get spammed anyway, why not keep my yahoo account and use THAT for all those wonderful product registrations and free offers that come with rebates! LOL

By: j

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:33:02 +0000

Forced “upgrade” to Yahoo mail because of an ISP DSL plan change.
Never gave my new email address to anyone: only Yahoo has it.
No IMAP, and I only receive spam: service is totally worthless.
Sheesh.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 03:31:44 +0000

J. Baker,

Gmail has no such limitation. I’d suggest you switch immediately and stop paying Yahoo for their substandard service.

By: j baker

j baker — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:10:49 +0000

Yahoo’s new e-mail interface included with my Yahoo Small Business account will not reference attachments in e-mails when selecting the print option and printing e-mails. It will only print out the body of the e-mail with no reference to any attachment to the e-mail. This is frustrating for a small business that needs to print out e-mails. I contact Yahoo support who confirmed that the new interface will not print references to attachments but will only print out the body of text of the e-mail. The old yahoo classic interface will print reference to attachments in e-mails but its search function does not work well. Thus, I frustratingly find myself switching between the classic and new interfaces. Is GMail or some other web based e-mail more user friendly or to they too have significant shortcomings?