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  1. 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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  2. get rid of right panel that opens when one searches in Yahoo Plus

    dunno why anyone thought that I need to see a panel when I search for an email that tells me how long I have been corresponding with someone, how many emails I've sent and what the subject was in the first email. How is any of this information remotely useful? I used to work as an human factors engineer for Boeing and this is pretty much the same as a pilot opening a chart and a panel displaying telling him/her how many times they have flown to that airport and when the first time was. Point of all of this…

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  7. 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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  8. you have the new 50 petabyte server?

    mail app is lumbering like the open source apps i sometimes have to use. also adding email accounts is not worth the time in process.

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  9. 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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  11. lost emails for this year

    I don't know why i have not been able to see my emails for this year 2025
    I do not know how to get ahold of anyone.

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  12. 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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  13. Be ale to keep old broser

    I HATE the way the new software works and functions. Just like phone up dates, once you get an update everything gets screwed up!!

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  14. PUT IT BACK THE WAY IT WAS!!!!!!!!!!

    Imagine waking up on Cyber Monday and all of a sudden, all of your emails have completely been moved around and made harder to navigate!!! Please put it back the way it was....this new way is really horrible!!

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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. Butt pain

    Every time when looking at the messages and you do a delete it jumps back to the starting scream, you have to select to go look at the new message. Over and over with each new message.

    BUTT PAIN

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  18. PERMENENTLY DELETING EMAILS

    How do I permanently delete spam emails? It asks if I want to "permanently delete the selected emails" I choose YES. Permanently only last for a couple hours and the same emails reappear with the same email address for all of them--abqpz.com. Please advise on how to permanently delete!!

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  19. Remove some buttons....To many to buttons to select to perform functions.

    When I click on sort I want to sort all emails at once not Page by Page or view page by page

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