Saqqara
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I've been a regular user of Yahoo Mail for the past several years, and was suprised to log in and check my mail this morning, only to discover this:



Apparently, Yahoo is trying to keep up to speed with MSN's Live Mail, which is supposed to bring the feel of Outlook/Thunderbird/Eudora to your web browser. I have to say, playing around with Yahoo's new mail, it blows MSN Live Mail out of the water.

I've been used to the above layout for a couple of years now through my websites email service, which is provided by @Mail, but Yahoo takes functionality to a whole new level. Messages are now drag and droppable to their appropriate folders, the Spam folder is more intuitive than ever, and taking a hint from Firefox and other browsers, the main screen is now tabbed, so you are always one click away from a new message, or your inbox.

I have to say, Yahoo's approach to a desktop application in your browser is much more cleaner than MSN's as well. Live Mail opens in a 3 column view, which in turn makes messages display with both a horizontal and a vertical side bar. Not too appealing in my book.

I haven't tinkered with the whole new look much because I have class in an hour, but I have to say, the new look is very promising.

Chalks
Level: Master Delver

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Registered: 04-17-2005
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I just logged into my yahoo mail, because I wanted to see that cool new look. mine looks nothing like that.

do you have an upgraded version, or do you use the free yahoo mail?


Incidently, my yahoo has over 65000 unread messages (yay spam!)

eytanz
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It's still in beta. I'm not sure if non-paying Yahoo people can access it (since I have a paid account), but for me, there's a link that says "Yahoo! mail beta. Try it now" on the right side of the (old-style) mail screen.

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Saqqara
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eytanz wrote:
It's still in beta. I'm not sure if non-paying Yahoo people can access it (since I have a paid account), but for me, there's a link that says "Yahoo! mail beta. Try it now" on the right side of the (old-style) mail screen.

Ah yes, perhaps that is true, considering I also have a paid Yahoo account.

Mattcrampy
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How does it compare to Google Mail?

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Pinnacle
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I can confirm that non-paying people do not have access to the new thing.


EDIT: No, actually we cheap people can sign up for the beta list.
I just did. Yay!

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