Please make it possible to send old-fashioned plain text email without fighting for it every step of the way!
(This forum tells me to vote for an old idea instead of posting my own, but all of the ones I want to vote for are closed for comments and therefore unvoteable. Therefore, here goes another duplicate.)
Since copy and paste is disabled in plain text mode for some supremely asinine reason, composing a plain text email in Yahoo is an exercise in frustration. The only thing worse is composing a non-plain-text email, where it constantly re-interprets what you're trying to do, moving the cursor willy-nilly to the end of the line, inserting graphics that it refuses to then remove, and so forth.
Then I finally get the email composed, and it looks right, and I send it -- and the system eats all of the single line breaks, and formats the last two lines as a bottom quote.
PLEASE STOP TRYING TO BE SMARTER THAN ME!!!
Why can't you just give me a simple text editor to compose emails, and then SEND EXACTLY WHAT I WROTE? It'd be so much simpler on both ends!
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[Deleted User] commented
I absolutely hate this new format...******* the eyes, when I have an empty folder it starts a talking ad, don't make the ads in the inbox look like an email I can accidentally click on it , do not like the way the contact list comes up, do not like the circles with the big letters in them, can't highlight and drag, have to scroll down to see all my folders, get rid of the unread and starred folders to alleviate all this scrolling, bring back the highlight and drag to move words around the page, bring back the four information lines when I click on reply, slow performance, when printing the emails the text ls too small
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Jason commented
Yes! Jesus Christ, Yahoo's "plain text" is a nightmare! Just let me write in plain text! Just let me email in plain text! Just let me paste something and have it paste as plain text! Stop re-composing and re-processing and re-formatting what I wrote or pasted! Just let me write what I'm writing and don't ***** with it!
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Alice Ramsay commented
I agree! It seems to work such that you paste your message or write your message, and THEN you change it to plain text and it gets sent as plain text. However, the display of the text does not change to a non-proportional font (which it used to), so it's impossible to tell that it will be sent as plain text. You have to click "send" and pray that it will work. And why the heck can't you paste in plain text mode in the first place?
This lack of support for plain text is why I have resisted changing to the new version of Yahoo mail, so I am a VERY UNHAPPY camper now that it has been forced upon me.