Comments on: Why Yahoo Mail is Still an Epic Catastrophe

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: Xbox

Xbox — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:19:37 +0000

Great site , do you use twitter?

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?

By: Mukesh Agarwal

Mukesh Agarwal — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:31:28 +0000

Yahoooooooooooo is really gr8 their implementation of spam is gr8.

All mail except spam goes in spam

By: duranduranduran

duranduranduran — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:48:29 +0000

Are you paid by Google or something?

‘Wait! But doesn’t Yahoo own Flickr? Sure, but they sure as heck didn’t invent it — they bought it. Sure, other companies buy one another all the time but it seems that Yahoo is the undisputed king of resting on their laurels and using inertia to propel their success from the 90’s. Yahoo, in many respects, reminds me of Symantec makers of Norton Anti-Virus’

Wait, doesn’t Google own Youtube? Sure, but they as heck didn’t… you get the idea

‘All throughout the 90’s, I remember avoiding Yahoo Mail because it was clear to me that Yahoo was far too fixated on intrusive advertising than their core search technologies.’

That’s similar to the reason why I’ve spent the last five years avoiding Gmail.

As a separate point, don’t you think it’s a bit cruel to inflict Windows 98 on your poor old Grandmother?

By: Sej

Sej — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:02:27 +0000

I have a gmail account and get little to no spam. But it is because my gmail address has only been around for a few years, whereas my Yahoo address has been open to spam for more than a decade. Yahoo Mail’s spam filtering has gotten alot better. I’m not sure why you have so many spam messages in your inbox, but it is definitely related to user error, not because of Yahoo’s filters.

By: JuanGuapo

JuanGuapo — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:12:05 +0000

I use both Gmail and Yahoo and I find myself gravitating towards Yahoo more often than not. Gmail is great and all but Yahoo just melds with me better and the way an e-mail website should operate. Plus, I like the unlimited storage and free iPhone push notifications. Yahoo for me maybe 80% of the time.

By: Greatbutts

Greatbutts — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:46:39 +0000

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