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Filters

You used to be able to "filter" emails straight from the body of the email. Now there's not an option for that. Instead you have to open the settings, create a filter, going back and forth to the actual message to create the filter. Bring back the option of "filter emails like this" in the body of the email.

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  • William Rabkin commented  ·   ·  Report

    More than 2 years since this idea was posted, and still "Gathering Feedback"??? What are you waiting for, Yahoo? The filter implementation in new Mail in far inferior to the old implementation. (1) Filters are processed in the order in which they appear in the list, yet I could not find a way to move filters up or down. ("Help" says to select a filter and press up or down arrow, but that does not seem to work.) (2) Users should be able to create filters from messages in the Inbox, as in the old Mail.

  • eugene commented  ·   ·  Report

    Filter editing form have to have a "position number in the list of " field that can be editable. Say "filter 75 of 100". So you specify new number by changing 75 to 15 and the filter goes to 15th position moving all others one row lower.

  • Rikki Fox commented  ·   ·  Report

    totally agree. this is a definite case where "new" is definitely not "improved. i kept switching back to the previous version as well. i also hate that the shortcut to the address book / contacts is all the way on the right. it used to be in the top left of the screen, where i was always hanging out anyway to get into folders, etc. now i have to keep moving the cursor to the far right of the screen to access the mailbox, and then it only shows the mailbox in a thing column. ok, rant over. do the yahoo folks even bother to read these comments?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Navigating the FILTER list. I have many filters. Their order matters as the emails get filtered in order from first to last filter. The command bar of the filter list (add, up, down, remove, etc.) should remain on screen at the top when we scrowl down rather than scrowlling off screen. This, I believe is the best solution. And it would fix other complaints as well that I have seen here in the comments section.

  • Aleta Matthews commented  ·   ·  Report

    where is the button that you can click on the "filter e-mails like these"... it was on the old version

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Use to work just fine with the previous version, unable to filter at all now now matter what I do. I even went back to the classic version and it no longer filters like it use to.

  • Jacki Johnson commented  ·   ·  Report

    Now that you've given me no option to NOT use the AWFUL newest version, I will be switching to a different email provider today. I'm not sure why simple features like filtering and and ALL email counter at the top (just to name a couple things I hate about the new version) needed to be changed....but just those two reasons alone are enough to make me bounce........

  • John commented  ·   ·  Report

    You changed my email and the option to filter emails into different folders has disappeared from the drop-down menu in the more section please restore immediately or I will change to gmail or outlook instead and delete yahoo completely!!! This is outrageous!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Filters is about the ONLY reason I'd pay for any email account, without that, WHY? And then to add extra inconvenience, I have to navigate away from the Inbox to (hard to find) Settings > Filters > Add filters >and then try & remember what the actual name/email was. MUCH more inconvenient than right-clicking on the offending email and building a filter with ONE click and boom! the filter by name/email is correct the first-time. WHO is designing or testing this? I also kept switching back to Original Flavor because of this. PS. WHY the price increase for worse functionality? Now nearly $50/yr?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Filters is about the ONLY reason I'd pay for any email account, without that, WHY? And then to add extra inconvenience, I have to navigate away from the Inbox to Settings > Filters > Add filters >and then try & remember what the actual name/email was. MUCH more inconvenient than right-clicking on the offending email and building a filter with ONE click (and the name/email is correct the first-time). WHO is designing or testing this? I also kept switching back to Original flavor because of this.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Filters is about the ONLY reason I'd pay for any email account, without that, WHY? And then to add extra inconvenience, I have to navigate away from the Inbox to Settings > Filters > Add filters >and then try & remember what the actual name/email was. MUCH more inconvenient than right-clicking on the offending email and building a filter with ONE click (and the name/email is correct the first-time). WHO is designing or testing this? I also kept switching back to Original flavor because of this.

  • Yavor commented  ·   ·  Report

    When I hit on MORE there is no longer an option to set a filter -- why was this removed?

  • Wesley Philip commented  ·   ·  Report

    It was easier to setup filters in Classic, as it could be based on the selected mail.

  • Ben Liddell commented  ·   ·  Report

    I agree. This was one of the main reasons I didn't switch to the new inbox until I was forced to. Why would this not be included in the new inbox UI?

  • Joe T Tyrrell commented  ·   ·  Report

    Used to be able to add a filter by right-clicking on an email. Why would the supposedly wonderful new Yahoo Mail actually be deleting one of it's most useful features. Bring Back old Yahoo Mail!!

  • Esther commented  ·   ·  Report

    Filters should be easily accessible. Bring it back. You are forcing changes on us that nobody likes. I am wasting too much time going to settings and creating a filter when it was on top of each email. I'm ready to leave yahoo!

  • Anthony Nicolo commented  ·   ·  Report

    I completely agree. Not only was this very helpful feature conveniently placed in the UI, but it also prepopulated a proposed filter that you could easily customize/specify to your liking. Also the filters were easy to edit or delete (when you might find duplicates or a filter is no longer needed) under 'settings'. Now, you have to try and remember the correct syntax of the filter values from the email message while travelling several clicks in to manually populate a blank filter template. I found no way to delete a duplicate filter. Apparently, we are expected to overwrite existing filters instead of being able to delete AND with absolutely no 'heads-up', notification or instruction.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    There used to be an option to "Filter emails like this" in the row of options above the emails. Please put it back!

  • David Mayfield commented  ·   ·  Report

    I too use filters extensively for presorting email. As the person below said, Yahoo mail used to have the ability to click on an inbox email and create a filter for "emails like this." The current method suggested by Product Support is way too cumbersome and time consuming.

  • Stephen P Zalewski commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please add back the functionality to the Inbox to FILTER emails. The Right Click to filter emails of this type need to be brought back!

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