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EITHER different COLORS for the "Favorite Stars" or perhaps NUMBERS
Dear To Whom It May Concern,
I want to ORGANIZE my folders, emails, etc, from say most wanted, needed to keep to those I would like to keep but not as much as those most wanted to keep...also, this ADDING the COLOR SELECTION to the stars would and could help others organize their email by category and so on. ---Just a thought
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Put the checkboxes by each contact all the time
I have tried everything Googled to show the checkboxes to delete several contacts at once and none of them work. I don't see the things they say I'll see! Why not just automatically include that?
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Add a 2nd additional conformation "pop up" when doing bulk email deletion.
Situation (Human Factors Issue) - You are busy multitasking and you are doing a quick check of your email.
"The Problem/Feature" - You want to delete a single email in your inbox, and you go and click the box next to it and you "miss the box" (Unknown to you - you have just selected "ALL Emails" in your inbox). Next, you click the delete key and you get the pop-up about confirming "BULK". You quickly select "OK" just thinking you are deleting your selected email (the "1" email you though you selected.) However, you are NOW deleting your "WHOLE…
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Stop compressing incoming email pictures
Yahoo mail compresses photos people send when it is embedded into the email. Stop that. People want full resolution photos when they send. Senders shouldn't have to do extra steps to give yahoo mail users full resolution files.
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In Box Changes
On my laptop I now get a lot of blank space after every so many messages. Instead of breaking them into pages, can't you just let me scroll through them?
And when I open each message I get a lot of blank space so I have to scroll down a lot to get to the place where I can choose to delete or move or whatever. Very inefficient for me.
And I liked it when you separated the messages by date so it was easier to see how old things were. Having all messages spaced the same doesn't work for…
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Delete the Page Option
There's no need for an option to go from page to page. Just let the emails come in the order received and let the emails continue down the page. It's so much easier to see all your emails at the same, not on separate pages. With the Page Option, it takes twice as long to check email when you have to wait to go to another page. This new Yahoo Page is extremely slow when deleting emails and moving from page to page.
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Bring back to toolbar
Bring back the toolbar that allows you to control font size, style, italics, bold, color, etc. When I switched back to basic all of those options disappear. I suppose to punish users like me who don't want to switch to the ugly, confusing new Yahoo mail?
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I will be more convenient to have the star on the left side of the message , cause when using cell phones we could not see it , unless we op
I will be more convenient to have the star on the left side of the message , cause when using cell phones we could not see it , unless we open the full page to see that it has been stared
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Please see the comments below
I am grateful that I could return to Yahoo Basic email, as your latest email format was absolutely unworkable - it was horrible. However, I see that you revised the basic email as well, and as usual, the upgrades are a step backwards. They are not an improvement.
1. There is no tab to print my email through my email. If I do it through my computer, I get all the side bar info and the email prints so tiny I can't read it.
2.Also, I do not like that only one page is accessible for viewing at a time.…167th ranked -
Improve 'delete emails' functionality
In order to efficiently delete excessive numbers of emails, when selecting the 'Sender name A-Z option' Yahoo needs to then include an alphabetical A-Z option to enable the user to jump to a letter to continue deleting emails rather than having to click through multiple pages to get back to the letter where user left off deleting AND/OR enable the user to enter the page number where the user last deleted unwanted emails. The current version is cumbersome and time-wasting when the user needs to click/advance through multiple pages of undeleted emails to, for example, get back to the letter…
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So I was on basic and that you now force the non-mail tabs instead of multi-email tabs to try to get me off basic is evil
So I was on basic and that you now force the non-mail tabs instead of multi-email tabs to try to get me off basic is evil. I've been on basic and turning off new mail several times and yet, somehow now when I fix my suddenly changed settings (to show images always after I had it as ask always) and click back to basic, it's now forcing only one email at a time. Any provider that has to nerf the existing functionality to make someone switch is quite obviously doing it wrong.
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REMOVE THE TAB THAT IS SLOWING EVERYTHING DOWN
THE NEW YAHOO WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO NAVIGATE.
I WENT BACK TO THE OLD YAHOO AND EVERYTIME I TRY TO ACCESS MAIL, MY PC SLOWS DOWN TO A CRAWL. MY SYSTEM TELLS ME THAT IT IS NECESSARY TO FIX A TAB THAT IS SLOWING EVERYTHING DOWN.
IN ONE WEEK, I WILL ABANDON MY YAHOO ACCOUNT ALTOGETHER. FIX THE TAB. IT HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE.167th ranked -
Yahoo needs to be more aware of what AI is doing wrong
For more than 3 days I have to leave Yahoo and go find my phone. I seldom use a cell phone. I this idea of security is a joke. I believe I am better at keeping my computer secure than Yahoo ever has. Two days ago I could not read what I need to read because Yahoo was continually interrupting with suggestions or me to view. This tells me that either AI is in control of Yahoo or Yahoo is having trouble getting users like myself to use sites that Yahoo is trying to force the users to open.
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Lock the mail actions selections at the top of the inbox tab
When I scroll down an email, the delete, spam, actions buttons scroll off the page. If I want to delete the email, I now need to scroll up before I can delete the email. Need setting to be able to lock the buttons at the top of my emails to be able to minimize my button presses and scrolling.
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Request: Displaying the total size of emails within a specific folder
Dear Yahoo Mail Support,
I am a regular user of Yahoo Mail and I greatly appreciate the service you provide.
I would like to suggest a feature that would be very helpful for managing storage and organizing emails more efficiently: displaying the total size of emails within a specific folder (including custom folders created by users).
Currently, there is no way to see how much storage space each folder occupies. This information would be very useful for users who are trying to manage their mailbox size and storage quota, especially given the large amount of space provided by Yahoo.
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seriously,, 20 GB for long time customers? Surley you Jest,,
terrible Yahoo customer service ,, you should have not forces existing customers to comply with 20GB storage,, anyone that signed up when the 1TB offer was valid should have been allowed to keep it. Also, you need to have an option for annual or semi annual or whatever length of time the customer wants to pay for in advance if they choose larger storage program. Not everyone is willing to do monthly payments,, you have poor planning and no idea how to run your business.
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Set my sort preference as my default
I would love it if I could set my sorting preference as a default instead of having to set it every single time I open my email. It is a pain especially because I have to reset it every time I file an email after reading it. So if I have 100 emails, I have to reset my sorting preference 100 times! The options could still be available, but my preference should be set as my preference to be my default...
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Enable management of Yahoo storage in the basic mail settings
If I have to manage my storage, I should be able to do it somewhere in the basic mail interface.
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When you delete an email, make it so it doesn't go back to page 1 of your emails. This is how it was until just a couple of days ago.
Up until this last week, Basic Email which I used, let you go through your emails and delete page by page and just bring up the next email under the one you deleted. However, now, when you delete an email, it takes you all the way back to Page 1 of your email list which means you have to click over the page number you were on before to continue deleting older emails. I don't understand why this changed within the last week. It's very frustrating.
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undo "back to page 1" change
Something changed this week. It use to be if I navigated to another page of my inbox (say page 4) and deleted emails from page 4 using the check boxes on the left to select items for deletion, after I clicked "Delete" the screen refreshed and I was still on page 4. Now when I do the same steps, after clicking Delete I end up back on page 1 and have to navigate back to the page I was on before deleting. Very annoying. Please switch back.
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