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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Ian Stewart commented
You have so many requests for this, why have you not implemented a change?
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Ian Stewart commented
I know this was raised and voted on before but i dont think the answer you gave is satisfactory. Creating a filter in the new mail system is far more difficult than the old right click shortcut we had before. Please can we have the right click shortcut back!
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Zachary Schwisberg commented
Yes please bring back the right-click and "filter emails like this".
No idea why you guys would change it. It went from extremely user friendly to ridiculous - like taking 4 steps back
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nabeel younis commented
Yahoo just goes from bad to worse. Can another company please take it over and improve properly.
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Aaron Ross commented
You have to be aware how much email spam clogs up everyone's inbox these days. Being able to easily filter emails is MANDATORY. The process defined at your "helpful link" is so absurd and manually time consuming that I'm just done with it. Whoever signed off on this user experience should be fired, and fixing this should be much higher priority than 31st. You're losing customers.
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Rachel Cramer commented
filters need to be just a click away and you should be able to add a sender to an existing filter, it would save time and require fewer filters, i do like that yahoo allowed more filters but having to cut and paste and click through several screens is not good. If i could select "filter" from a drop down menu from the inbox and email then select "existing filter" or "new filter" then i could quickly sort things without all the hassle or a hundreds of items long list of filters
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Rachel Cramer commented
filters should be something you can access from the inbox or email directly
you should be able to nest them so that all communication from a site or organization can go into the same folder
and you should be able to have more than one "from" or "cc" on one filter - for instance i have several companies i receive coupons from, i would much rather add several senders to one filter instead of having to create a dozen filters that all go to the same folder, and this needs to be an "add to current filter" option not a cut and paste thing.
basically you have added to many steps to the process and not given us enough options -
Luke Olds commented
Make it easier and stop deleting my filters randomly.
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Jenny Roahen Rizzo commented
Dear Yahoo -- we all have the same request. When will the (former), better, simpler, faster, easier method of creating a filter be reinstated?
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Anonymous commented
i have to use classic email which has the right click context menu, and "filter emails like this". WTF is wrong with yahoos management, gutting useful features
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Anonymous commented
Item #1: Adding a Filter it's NOT use friendly at all. as of Nov2018, have to copy the email address, click Settings and keep clicking away, add the filter finally. FILTER should be a button on the email page like it use to be. Item#2 to difficult to sort filtered items especially when you have pages of it; clicking up/down arrow dozens of time is ridiculous. It should be to easy to a) move filters around b) have an option to click and sort them by Name or when created for example.
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Alkesh Panchal commented
Its very disappointing that oldest mail service provider is not able to control spams and also its filtering service is not working.
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L Divona commented
Ever since Verizon took over I get massive spam. You're so busy monetizing and synergizing you forgot email 101 which is maintain an effective spam filter.
The onus should not be on me to individually block addresses (as you very unhelpfully keep suggesting to everyone complaining about this, which is everyone who uses your site). The onus is on the provider to stop scams, spam, and malicious links from reaching the user in the first place.
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roy Reid commented
Filters
Your covered up in filter ideas and complaints. How many more do you need. PLEASE, PLEASE ,PRETTY PLEASE>FIX IT ALREADY. New formats should not be a down grade. That's just bad business. -
Lauren Glackin commented
A list of ideas that would make filters easier to use:
1. An easier way to get to the "Filters" list / edit page. (Currently it's a 3 click process after loading the inbox - user clicks gear at top right, user clicks "More Settings", then user has to click into the "Filters" tab on the settings page.)
2. On that "Filters" page, be able to click + drag to reorder emails - or at least have the up / down arrow / trashcan icons sticky on the page so that they can be seen even for bottom filters when users have long lists of filters.
3. Ability to "nest" filters the same way you can "nest" folders (I have a mostly-one-to-one relationship of filters to folders. Filters would be applied in the same order - first parent folder, then all of that folder's children, then second parent folder, etc. - but could make rearranging "groups" of filters easier.)
4. Option to add multiples of the same condition (i.e. multiple "from" emails) to the same filter with an "Add another" button. That way I can maintain one filter for a site, instead of needing separate filters for "daily.comms.yahoo.net" and "daily.communications.yahoo.net" and "homepage.yahoo-mail.net" etc. (I recognize this is a bad example as, when Yahoo changes their email location, they usually decommission the old one - but I have other sites that have as many as 4 active newsletter emails at a time, ALL of which go to the same folder, for which I have to maintain 4 different filters.)
5. Ability to "search" for a folder when using the "Add new filters" functionality - the same way you can search for folders when using the "Move" functionality within the inbox.
6. Some way to quick-add a filter in an inbox sidebar (not with the "filter emails like this", though that would be handy - just a way to use the sidebar when adding multiple filters so users don't have to switch back and forth between pages / tabs.
7. Smarter logic for filter rules. When I say a filter should "contain facebook.com" I want it to ACTUALLY BE USED on any email that contains facebook.com - whether that's @facebook.com, @mail.facebook.com, @emfacebook.com, facebook.com@gmail.com - whatever ridiculous arrangement you can think of, if it includes those characters together in that order "facebook.com" it should trigger that filter. Currently, saying "contains facebook.com" only triggers on @facebook.com.
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Greg Church commented
Yes! Please bring back an easy way to "filter emails like this" to a designated folder on the fly!!
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Ashok Panvalkar commented
Difficult to create a filter. It should be created from Inbox only. Otherwise, we have to go to settings each time we need to create a filter
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eduardo bahena commented
Make it as easy to access filters as on the old system. On the old yahoo you could do it right from the email.
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robert coady commented
I have set up a filter and it is not working. How can I fault find or test it
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Anonymous commented
Need option to directly add filters from inbox like in gmail. Also need option to apply filters for old mails