"New" Yahoo Mail System

[dirtybuck]

Has anyone else on here had trouble accessing or deleting their messages? It's given me problems on more than one occasion. I'd like to hear from other members if they are so I'll know it's NOT just me.

(I'm also using Firefox 4.something, and haven't tried accessing Yahoo mail through any other browser at this time)

 

[rp2813]

Various issues here.  Can't save a draft -- ever.  It saves when it wants to, but the "save as draft" button doesn't work for me.

 

It's slow.

 

Sometimes it doesn't respond to a request and the screen has to be refreshed.

 

I hate how if I've typed more than the screen holds, I have to hit "enter" to add a bunch of lines and then scroll back up to where I was so I can again see what I'm typing.

 

I've Googled for complaints about the new system and all I get hits for is Yahoo! help, which is useless.

 

[countryguy]

I've had all the same problems mentioned above. The most frequent one is trying to delete a message and nothing happens until I refresh the screen and do the delete again.

Gary

 

[DADoES]

 
I have two Yahoo "throwaway" accounts that I rarely check, used for a couple online registrations. Happened to check them today. One prompted to "upgrade" to the New Yahoo, which I declined. The other didn't ask, is still the old interface.

I would never use Yahoo, HotMail, or any "free" e-mail service as my primary mail, do not trust them.

 

[wringer]

More times

than not I can't log into Yahoo Mail. It is a pain in the behind. One day it works and the next it doesn't. I rarely use it because of this problem.

 

[tlee618]

My advice would be to switch back to the old Yahoo mail, you can do that easily.   

 

[rp2813]

I thought they weren't letting anybody switch back to the old version.  I was using "Classic" and would love to have it back.

 

I'll check the fine print, as I'm sure the option is well hidden, but would appreciate a post on how to get the old version back in case I can't figure out how to do it.

 

I will say that the attachment process is way easier and faster on the new version, but I'd rather have things work right for simple text e-mails instead.

 

I have Outlook Express for my "real" email account.  Yahoo! mail accounts are not my primaries.

 

[launderess]

Don't Get Too Comfortable With Outlook Express

Microsoft has droped OE including IIRC support. Windows 7 and beyond do not include Outlook Express, only Outlook.

Microsoft has added features to it's "Windows Live"/Hotmail and one can down load that in place of OE.

After using Outlook Express for so many years with my old computer thought would really miss it and hate Outlook. To my surprise haven't really looked back and didn't even bother with half the old messages I burned onto CD's to bring over onto the new system.

From what one read on the Internet Outlook Express was a stand alone email program that didn't even work with Outlook. It also had so many security problems that MS simply decided for these and other reasons to drop the program and support.

 

[rp2813]

I had Outlook at work and prefer it over OE.  I would switch to Outlook.  

 

Our Vista laptop came with Windows Mail.  I don't use that one much, but it seems to be adequate for Dave's uses.

 

I went in and poked around for an option to select an older version of Yahoo! Mail and couldn't find anything.  Terry, if you can share the details we'd all appreciate it.

 

[mattl]

Most of my mail gets dumped into Windows Live mail, I like having all the accounts I want available easily .  Plus I like having my mail "physically" on my computer rather than in the cloud.  Easily set up. but with a few minor bugs.

 

[DADoES]

 
Outlook is not included with Windows 7, or with any version of Windows. It's part of the Microsoft Office suite, with various bundled version of Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc. Outlook has been available separately in the past, don't know if that's still the case.

Windows Live Mail is the direct replacement for Outlook Express and is much the same. I assume it's not included with Win7 but rather as an optional download because of so many people not using any mail client in favor of web-based services.

I personally prefer Thunderbird.

 

[polkanut]

I'm with Ralph & everyone else, the new version of Yahoo mail just plain sucks!  Give me back the Classic version any day.

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[dirtybuck]

Yep!

I've had to do the refresh thing to either bring up or delete messages over and over and over and over (I think there was a total of 6 times for one or two messages I was trying to delete).

 

[chuffle]

Might this help?

Don't know if this helps, but...

http://www.techtip.org/how-to-switch-back-to-yahoo-classic-mail/

 

[rp2813]

OK, so am I actually making my browser think I want to go back to IE6 or am I just lying to Yahoo! about the version? 

 

I'm afraid I'll get into trouble if I pursue the fix suggested above.  What does everybody else think?

 

[ptcruiser51]

Wet Cement

Is what it's like running through if you're a fast typist like I am. The screen is always one second behind me. Takes forever to download mail. Sometimes twice as long as that to "send". I don't have a problem saving or retrieving though.

Hotmail is much better IMHO.

 

[earthling177]

Ralph asked: "OK, so am I actually making my browser think I want to go back to IE6 or am I just lying to Yahoo! about the version? I'm afraid I'll get into trouble if I pursue the fix suggested above. What does everybody else think?"

Ralph, if you follow the directions above, you will be asking your browser to lie to Yahoo! about which browser you are using. Moreover, the switch is temporary, as soon as you close the window or quit the browser (depending on which browser you are using, I'm told) it reverts to the ordinary browser you had. Moreover, the browser makes no attempt to behave like say, IE 6, it just tells the website that it is IE 6, so if you find an old cranky website that does need old and possibly buggy IE 6 behaviors, it won't really work in rendering the pages the way they used to be. But in this case it's useful to get Yahoo! to let you go back to the classic mail.

Reading these messages I'm glad I haven't jumped to the new Yahoo! mail -- after the last few times they "improved" their groups and mail, I've been just waiting until the very last possible moment to switch, not very happy with the changes, the older, simpler and cleaner versions they used to have used to be easier and faster. Oh, well.

 

[rp2813]

Thanks Paulo.  Since I have three accounts with Yahoo! Mail will I have to do it three times?  I guess there's one way to find out, huh?

 

I have resisted any new mail systems Yahoo! has threatened me with in the past, but the way they presented this one, it was as if I had no choice.  I can understand that they may not want to maintain older versions forever, but it seems to me as though they have coerced users into switching to the new system.  I switched because I was made to believe I wouldn't be able to retrieve mail anymore, as if the deadline was that day and I had to act.  I had been waiting as long as possible to make the dreaded switch.

 

I find it extremely arrogant that Yahoo! isn't offering any sort of feedback option (that site won't load) or alternatives and continues to offer "help" options that are entirely useless.  If there were a way for users to express their disappointment and threaten to discontinue their accounts, as was the major response to the Netflix rate change recently, maybe Yahoo! would make it easier for users to retreat back to a previous version.  I can't find anything on line where people are complaining about this new system, yet I think it's safe to assume we have lots of company.

 

[rp2813]

Warning!

I downloaded the "User Agent Switcher" and selected IE6.  The scenario played out as shown in the link, I got the "Classic" version back, however nothing would load.  Not my inbox, sent items, nothing.  It said it was loading, then would stop.

 

Don't panic if that happens to you.

 

I closed all browser windows and re-opened Yahoo! Mail and had my "Classic" version back, working fine.  Thanks for the tip!

 

If you have more than one account, you'll need to do this for each one.  Also, the link's instructions don't advise that you need to open your browser's "Tools" menu after pulling up the Yahoo! Mail log-in page in order to access the "User Agent Switcher."  Assumed knowledge runs rampant through the tech support culture, much to the frustration of those of us who are not steeped in the functionality of operating systems.

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