New Mail Basic
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Please bring back the "back" button once you've opened an email to easily go back to your inbox
Please bring back the "back" button once you've opened an email to easily go back to your inbox
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Fix mail item start action to NOT refresh page, just update the star icon
As you know the technology and the resulting mail client you created "New Yahoo Mail Basic" is a disaster. No proper AB testing on the client clearly.
1 KEY BUG >>> you implemented the mail item star function incorrectly. WHEN i star a single mail item in the list the WHOLE PAGE SHOULD NOT REFRESH. If you knew UX design you woiuld know why.
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Give back capacity to SEARCH ALL - trash and folders!!!
Need capacity to SEARCH ALL - trash and folders!
I'm writing a book and have lost this type of comprehensive searching167th ranked -
Go back to being able to Delete Unread ! Every time I try to delete how I used to it threatens to delete my entire inbox.
Go back to how it used to be!! Now I have to click on every damned email individually to delete it, which I simply don't have time for so it builds up. then when you have a bunch to delete there's no way to corral them into a pile for the trash. WTH, Yahoo??? Why are you making my morning email such a pain **********? Go Back. Your improvements aren't improvements at ALL.
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show then delete all emails from a sender
It used to be possible to check ALL the emails from a sender, then delete them. there was a little symbol... (magnifying glass) now, nothing. Maybe it's possible, but it's hidden. Why fix what works?
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Block senders
The older version allowed you to hover over an email sender, see the address, right click it and add it to block senders list.No longer able to do this.The old version was fine and easier to use.Some actions take more than one click to do what was a one click operation.Progress?
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The top action line HAS to freeze when scrolling! Who would ever want to scroll up and down to do something.
The top action line HAS to freeze when scrolling! Who would ever want to scroll up and down to do something like deleting or archiving. Get it together Yahoo. There aren't many of us still using you.
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In Search results, show folder that emails found are in-
When searching at top level (all emails), in the search results, add a column to show the folder that the emails were found in.
This helps me to find emails on topic / keyword searched for, and to know where they are filed. It helps YahooMail as if I do not need to create another folder if one already exists that I can use. Finally I can keep my email more organized/less cluttered if I have a tool to locate emails by topic, then I am more likely to clean out those that are no longer needed.
Note: I think…
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Dump the Apply button.
Get rid of the Apply button. They whole idea of good UI design has always to make it require the least number of clicks possible to accomplish a task. It feels like this interface was created by people who don't understand basic UI design concepts.
The old interface was simple and it worked. You broke it, for no good reason.37th ranked -
why did you get rid of the dropdown box options??
the old system allowed you to right-click on checked item and do the selection. now, we have to check the item(s), go to the top of the account to the "actions" box, then click on GO. SO MANY MORE STEPS!!! this is not efficient at all. guess it is time to get rid of Yahoo and move on to other email options.
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BRING BACK ABILITY TO BLOCK EMAIL IN INBOX PAIGE!
SPAM OR PHISING EMAILS SHOULD NOT BE OPENED. BUT NOWTO GET THE SENDERS EMAI YOU HAVE TO BECAUSE NOW YOU HAVE TO GO TO SETTINGS AND ADD IT TO THE BLOCKED EMAIL ADDRESS SECTION. WITH 20+ SPAMS A DAY, YOU CANT COPY & PASTE ALL OF THEM ONE AT A TIME!!! HUGE OVERSIGHT-NOT BEING ABLE TO BLOCK THEM AT ONE TIME IN THE INBOX PAIGE IS WRONG.
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Put back the 'Not Read" folder that was in the old email.
You took away the "Not read" folder. Now I have just the Inbox which has new mail AND old mail mixed in. I don't need to see the mail after I already read it!!! NOT HAPPY!
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Add a VIEW menu
Add a VIEW menu so we can configure the layout at least a little bit - adding or removing the TASK, CALENDAR, etc panel.
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Go
Get rid of Apply and Go buttons. Why Create an extra step/click?
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Searching Contacts
The "Search" function in Contacts should search the "Nickname" field as well. Currently this field does not appear to be included in the Search function.
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Restore functionality to sort by Sender within a folder.
I noticed today that I can no longer sort email messages within a folder by Sender. This is an important way to find and manage emails, since the Search function isn't working very well.
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Having to click to advance pages of email is terrible. The new interface is not user friendly and has become more like ancient mail
Get rid of only 20 e-mails "per page" and have it scroll like it did before. Mail also nolonger auto-refreshes and i'm constantly refreshing the page manually to see new e-mails. Neither of these items are improvements - they make the yahoo mail experience worse.
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