New Mail Basic
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443 results found
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Delete email, auto switch to in box
If delete an email from a folder, view should stay in folder.
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Harder to switch between accounts.
Previously, you could much easier switch between accounts. You could go to the upper right corner and there would be a dropdown option. It no longer exists. You must now go to the main Yahoo site and switch. Very annoying.
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Folder List No Longer Independant
List of folders on left side is no longer scrollable, independent of mail pane in center
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Please add email lables like Gmail, i.e. you can lable an email and still keep it in the Inbox folder.
Please add email lables like Gmail, i.e. you can lable an email and still keep it in the Inbox folder. This is a great feature.
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Can't edit forwarded messages
You've got to be kidding me! So now when I forward a message I have the choice of sending the entire thing or deleting the entire original message. No way to delete part of it, not even the part showing the person's name and email, which is a privacy issue. Again, do you even TEST this stuff before forcing us to use it?
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Readd the "return to folder" button
In the old basic mail a week ago, when you clicked on an email, there would be a button in the top left that said "Return to <FOLDER>" with whatever folder you had been in. Clicking that would take you back to viewing the folder in the state it had been when you left, including if any emails were checked off or not.
Now, that button is missing. So there's no easy way to get back to viewing what you were looking at before you clicked an email.
Please restore the "Return to <FOLDER>" button.
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minimize the compose emails
please add a minimize screen for the composing of emails as it is a pain to see a full screen every time you need to compose an email...
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minimize the compose emails
please add a minimize screen for the composing of emails as it is a pain to see a full screen every time you need to compose an email...
139th ranked -
Why do I have to scroll way down to reply to and then to send an email? That option would be better placed at the top or directly under.
Please move the reply and send buttons closer to the body of the email.
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Broken features in new interface
- Clicking the blue "unread" marker no longer marks message as read
- Shift+K no longer marks selected messages as read
- Message load times have skyrocketed (4x on average)
Please stop trying to be Google. If I wanted Google I'd go to Google.
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Blocked Senders: Please increase the limit to more than 1,000
Blocked Senders: Please increase the limit to more than 1,000
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Chatrooms
Yahoo should bring back chatrooms. They are an essential part of a social network and allows people to chat with others locally, nationally and internationally. Chatrooms would bring back web traffic to Yahoo and generate increased revenue. Yahoo should bring them back again.
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I liked having "this week" and "last week" batching
It made it so much easier to find an email from a week or so ago.
If I wanted to use Gmail, I'd use Gmail. You are not Gmail. Gmail sucks. Your version is getting worse with these "enhancements." They are not enhancements or improvements! They're awful!
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The settings for composing an email.
On the settings of my email page, I cannot locate how to change my font size, or underline or highlight or add emojis, when composing an email.
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The Header with search and other tabs takes 1.5 inches space. Tabs can be smaller width!
The tabs 'search your mailbox', 'Account info', 'Inbox, contact, notepad, calendar' and 'Delete, Spam' action tabs are so wide and take up about 1.5 inches of space on the browser.
The width of the Header can be smaller.70th ranked -
Why do I have to scroll back up to delete emails that are checked?
Why do I have to scroll back to the top to delete emails and how do I remedy this? It is a huge time waster! Additionally, I am forced to scroll back up in order to hit delete after checking the boxes on emails. Another drag on my time! And lastly, why do I get routed back to the home page after deleting a read email? I need to go to the next email. Please fix this immediately! I have always preferred to look at my email on my desktop because it was easier than my phone but not anymore.
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Make going back to E-mail list is impossible
Going back to E-Mail list is impossible, fix it!
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Why can I only see 20 messages per page? If it would be more (like it was before) then it is much each easier to scroll.
Why can I only see 20 messages per page? If it would be more (like it was before) then it is much each easier to scroll. Can you please put it back to minimal 100 messages per page, or preferably more.
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