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  1. Please include INBOX SPACING (small)

    Please include INBOX SPACING (small)

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  2. Please remove the tabs across the top of my inbox

    You added tabs across the top of the inbox. This is unnecessary since they are not commonly used. They can be summed in in an options drop down.

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  3. Have inbox utilize all available space in window

    Have inbox use all available space, not just a third (center "column") of the window, leaving the right side completely blank and useless. This makes reading the inbox and email content easier.

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  4. allow me to attach multiple files without adding each one separately

    allow me to attach multiple files without adding each one separately

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  5. Delete email, auto switch to in box

    If delete an email from a folder, view should stay in folder.

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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 61st ranked

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  14. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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