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Make Trash and Spam Folders More Accessible

why make things harder to access? there's plenty of room in the left menu bar for those to be openly accessible.

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  • Peter C commented  ·   ·  Report

    If you at least added a way to add the folder/label icons for Spam and Trash instead of hiding them so I have to navigate more, that would help somewhat. Jeez.

  • Peter DiGiuseppe commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please make folders visible at all times and other folders like trash and drafts more accessible like they were in the old version (which was better). Still don't know why Yahoo had to change something that worked so well.

  • happy girl commented  ·   ·  Report

    Regarding the users who comments on how this new redesign is going backwards:

    Yes, as a 25+ years long user of Yahoo, I confirm that the new washed out, stripped out of everything look actually reminds you of Yahoo Mail Basic. Do you remember it? It's still hidden there. If you go on the three dots on the left pane, it unhides "Settings", and there in the settings, look on the left, eventually you'll find "Swith to basic Mail" which will turn your mail into simplified, barren looking page stripped of most of the graphic, with just purple header the rest white, primitive buttons and functions. But at least you do have the basic ones now missing, at least it is white and not gray, with gmail rounded edges.

    I won't scream here that with things being like this, I will go to Gmail or AOL. THAT would not be pleasant to me and would be no better FOR ME so Why change my e-mail address I am used to? If I can make myself used Yahoo Basic again, then every time a new kid that comes to Yahoo management in the future and decides yet another crazy redesign of Yahoo mail to suit young mobile people who don't even own a desktop computer anymore (they don't really care whether the old users dislike, they will die out), I will be spared. It won't touch ME. So yeah, I switched to Basic.

  • Luke Freeman commented  ·   ·  Report

    Just go back to the previous version. Nothing else matters. We like Yahoo, not this Gmail clone you've made.

  • Nashspacerocket commented  ·   ·  Report

    Now that you've created more real estate on the left hand side, please put spam and trash back in with the other folders (inbox, sent, etc etc). stop hiding them.
    Since your new spam filters are not great, i keep having to go in there to restore valid emails to my inbox.

  • Sandra Chapin commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please put the spam and trash folders back on the top-level menu along the left side of the page like it used to be. It is inconvenient to have to go to the sub menu to find these folders. I use them EVERY day. Why do you people make thing so difficult? Who decides these asinine changes anyway? Certainly not someone who uses Yahoo mail. . . . .

  • Andrey Draganov commented  ·   ·  Report

    How many times I must mark a message as NOT SPAM to start arriving in the Inbox. 20 times is not enoght.

  • Angela M Shultz commented  ·   ·  Report

    Either go Back to the old Yahoo OR let us customize TRASH AND SPAM to be in our list under Inbox!

  • joe randazzo commented  ·   ·  Report

    why make things harder to access? there's plenty of room in the left menu bar for those to be openly accessible. I agree

  • DKH Hoover commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'm migrating my Yahoo Mail to Gmail. No need to to use Yahoo Mail anymore. I could say more but Yahoo will just delete comments they don't like or find offensive.

  • DKH Hoover commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yahoo techs need to put down the bag of Cheetos and fix these issues. Who ever said, I wish Yahoo would HIDE their most IMPORTANT FOLDERS?.

  • David M. Laurito commented  ·   ·  Report

    You need to give the ability to customize the navigation panel on the far left (Inbox | Sent | etc) so we can add items like Archive and Trash that are hidden and remove items that we don't use that much or at all like Folders.

  • Nancy Topol commented  ·   ·  Report

    I missed important work emails as the Spam folder doesn't show if there are messages! There should appear a number or something to show we have messages in the Spam folder. I have a paid Yahoo! subscription

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    100% agree with these comments.
    Make Spam and Trash folders visible AND indicate how many items are in each.

    Why go backwards? My other email apps don't require me to click and click !!

  • Tchey BP commented  ·   ·  Report

    Folders, trash, spam and all needs to go back to the left side like it was before the change. Why make it more work and clicks to get to all. Plus this all white on white and light black text is so ******* the eyes. ****** design

  • Susanna S commented  ·   ·  Report

    This new email reformat is exactly why you don't have geeks design "user friendly" products. For the most part, the aforementioned geeks are so far above the average user that they no longer know what is indeed user friendly and make things unnecessarily complicated for the average user. (Nothing against geeks, it's just that their experience with programming and the use of advanced programs makes them different than the everyday user.)

    Personally, I need my Spam and Trash folders back to where they were visible below the Inbox and Sent options. "Just one click" to find them adds up to many, many clicks over time, clicks that the old way didn't have.

    There are other issues with this new format that are inconvenient and unnecessary, but this one is the most important to me at this time. Some people may like the new "improvements", but not this gal, nor the many others who have also commented on this particular issue.

  • Larry A Stephenson commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please put the trash folder back on the primary menu. This is a common folder that I shouldn't have to go looking for.

  • Michael Foster commented  ·   ·  Report

    This new mail page really hurts the "at-a-glance" experience. Why do I have to hover over the icon in the bottom left to see my other mail inboxes? Previously, all would show at the top left and I could instantly see if I had mail in one of them.

    Folders as well have been collapsed along the left side.And going to my SPAM folder also requires a second mouse click (yes, every mouse click is considered a barrier to streamlining). I need to check my SPAM daily, as I occasionally get important emails that end up going to that folder.

    Rather than improve efficiency, which is what this should strive to do, the current layout has made it worse. Please allow users to revert, or make changes to the layout to improve the experience.

    Thank you,
    MF

  • rone rone commented  ·   ·  Report

    where the email classic why not give the option to choose what i want? i will close my email and change to Google or Aol mail

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