Yahoo! Mail beta upgrade brings new features (V0.3.3 Build 314.7)

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Yahoo! Mail beta upgrade brings new features (V0.3.3 Build 314.7)

by Chris Price Aug 13th 2006

The past couple of days have seen a lot of activity on the Yahoo! Mail Beta group, with several of the members reporting a new version hitting the servers.

Unlike the past couple of updates, this one brings in new features for us:

Home Page changes
Calendar Bar
Map integration
Options pages integrated with client

Unfortunately, it's not hit my server farm (us.f308) yet, so I can only report what I'm seeing in the Group. Likewise with Guillaume Belfiore, owner of the group and a longtime Yahoo! fan - he's put together a nice preliminary review based on screen captures sent his way. Ryan Kennedy (one of the devs) also posted this about it.

Expect to see this pushed through to all users over the next few days.

Tags: beta, calendar, mail, upgrade, yahoo

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Sean Hackbarth said 12:20AM on 8-14-2006

Any upgrade to Yahoo Mail is pointless until they get their spam under control. I've had an account for years and have played with the anti-spam settings and have only seen an increase in spam. UI and features are nice but wading through hundreds of spams a day means I won't use the service.

Heffer said 2:59AM on 8-14-2006

Sean - You gotta quick visiting those internet porn sites. Yahoo, and their spam control, works great for me. Haven't wasted time telling them what to and not to send to my bulk mail. It just knows.

Deadpresident said 5:02AM on 8-14-2006

Looks good with drag and drop features. Feels a little heavy though. Overall - better than what they had before

Mike said 7:00AM on 8-14-2006

I have to agree, I recently converted all of my stuff to Gmail and only use my yahoo account for public postings such as this. As of right now I have 947 spam msgs in the inbox and 2241 in the bulk mail after having cleared both just a week ago.

I really appreciate all the new toys and layouts and such, but in the end, until they can get their spam under control, it's nothing but a trash account for me.

Chris Price said 7:56AM on 8-14-2006

I much prefer Y! Spam filtering over Hotmail.

I've had both addresses since early mid 1990's and so they've been harvested for a long time.

Y! moves most of the spam into the Spam folder, with the Inbox getting a couple of 'nigerian' spam type messages a day.

Hotmail just lets everything in, so much that I just can't use it - similar to your current experience with Y! Mail.

Bryan said 8:53AM on 8-14-2006

I can’t say enough good things about Yahoo Mail Beta. It really is better than my other accounts (MSN, Verizon, Gmail). I created a new one for my Yahoo music unlimited account (in the past year), so I do not have the same spam issues that others might have with 5 year old accounts. It is really cool when reading blogs at work. The RSS feature allows me to see all the blogs I read on one page with the full articles posted in the order by time(turn 16 blogs into 1). It even includes the pictures. The email portion of the page is amazing as well. It works just like an installed program, even though it’s all online. I have yet to hit a bug (can't say the same for the Music Unlimited Beta test), and I do not have these new features yet either. I look forward to checking them out.

Keep up the good work, and please let me ditch the purple.

Sean Hackbarth said 9:57PM on 8-14-2006

Over the years I've marked thousands of messages as spam, but Yahoo Mail only gets a handful into the spam folder. Right now, I have 2900 new messages. At most all but 20 will be spam. So any new bells and whistles are meaningless to me until spam is under control.

Chris Price said 10:01PM on 8-14-2006

I'm intrigued as to why we have completely opposite experiences.

I get very little Spam in my Inbox from Yahoo - maybe 5 a day (usually Nigerian scammers). I have 2700+ in my Spam folder, I don't care about that - I just let it delete (although I would like the Search feature in my Spam as well as the other folders).

I'm not even a Plus user - I let the expire earlier this year.

TheBizofKnowledge said 4:42AM on 8-15-2006

I just wanted to chime in and say that I don't have any problems with spam on my newer Yahoo accounts (created within the last three years or so). Yeah, if your ID was created back in the mid-'90s and has been around the block a few times, I'd expect you to see a lot of spam. I don't think Yahoo is better than Gmail, but it's a close second.

James north said 10:43PM on 9-03-2006

When I went to yahoo mail beta, it got a clitch in it and went back to the old style yahoo mail. How do i get the new yahoo beta to come back?? I don't want the old one anymore. can you help me?

talking talking said 9:45AM on 9-15-2006

Post number 5 (chris),

is a SPAM himself because Yahoo mail and Hotmail were introduced after mid 1990s (and not early/mid 1990s as he said)...stop talking trash.

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