Talk:Yahoo! Mail
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[edit] Nickname Problem
As from January 2007, I have noticed that the nickname feature (when you have "automatically complete" turned off and just type the nickname into either the To:, CC: or BCC: field) has broken and just keeps returning a syntax error.
It seems to be affecting everyone and there is numerous posts about it (search a search-engine with strings such-as "yahoo nickname problem" to see). Is this worth mentioning on the main page? I'm not going to add it myself, as, because it has only been mentioned in forums and not officially by Yahoo!, it does not class under Wikipedia as a "validly cited reference".
If anyone can find a link to an official Yahoo! help page mentioning the error, please add this information onto the main page. Thanks!
[edit] E-mail war
"An e-mail war between Yahoo!, Microsoft, and Google" How is Microsoft into this war ? Any references ? Jay 12:11, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Several websites have been reporting that Hotmail has already given free 25 MB quota upgrades to some of its free users: [1] [2] [3] [4] -- Vesta 13:10, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC)
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- Has any hotmail user moved upto 25MB ? Or any official statement by Microsoft or Hotmail that says there is an upgrade ? I think the contents of the articles are just the views of some authors, and maybe there's nothing official thats happening. Jay 13:32, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC)
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- That is a good point.. I'll reword the sentence in the article in a minute. See if those changes are somewhat more accurate. :) -- Vesta 16:46, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC)
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- UPDATE: Microsoft confirmed that the quota is going up (250 MB) in the fall. It's listed directly on Hotmail.com. -- Vesta 03:56, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)
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- Here's a link The free Hotmail account has a 250mb quota
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[edit] Mocha eval expression filters
Is the "mocha eval expression" filter thing true (anymore)? I just tried it and no words were changed and no underscores were added.
[edit] Is this too POV?
I was about to add this to the page, but feel it may be a little too POV:
When Yahoo increased their quota to 100mb, they also removed a couple of featurs that many users found useful:
- Some older accounts had free POP3 access; this access was removed when the upgrade happened.
- It used to be possible to write messages in raw HTML by clicking on a checkbox marked "this mail is in HTML". After the upgrade, Internet Explorer is the only browser that allows people to write non-ASCII email messages, and even that no longer allows direct editing of HTML in emails.
Samboy 22:06, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Merge?
There has been suggestion that too many of Yahoo!'s services have their own pages. This is a borderline case, so please discuss at Talk:Yahoo!. - IMSoP 15:36, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
[edit] History???
Is it really necessary to have a seperate heading 'History'? Anyway there's very little about the history of yahoo mail in this page. Jam2k 17:10, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
- Maybe the intention was that once the article was expanded a bit, there would be plenty to say about its history. After all, there's very little about anything here at the moment. But please, feel free to expand, refactor, and generally improve the article in whatever way you think is appropriate - be bold! - IMSoP 17:43, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
[edit] No 'Save sent items'
After the upgrade to 250MB the 'Save Sent Items' option is gone! Maybe they felt its not needed anymore. Anything else found missing?Jam2k 11:30, Dec 2, 2004 (UTC)
The "Save sent items" feature is now automatic for every message; you can enable or disable this in "Preferences."
[edit] Can anyone update the login page screenshot?
Can anyone update the login page screenshot? Current one shows that Yahoo! Mail gives 250 MB to its users. Capacity of free account is now 1 GB. 85.99.152.213 22:58, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Free POP3 Access
I get free POP3 access. My account is a yahoo.com.au email account. So the article is WRONG in what it says about free accounts. Dankru 05:41, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
International website do not follow the same strategy as yahoo.com accounts. I had a yahoo.fr email address and in order to get pop for free I had to subscribe to some yahoo-related or Yahoo-partners newsletters. That was about 3 years ago. Guillaumeb
[edit] Any options for direct navigation of yahoo mail?
I have abt 2000 mails in my Inbox (thanks to the whopping 1GB inbox provided by Yahoo). Now if I have to reach the 1000th email, do I have to click 'Next' 40 times? Is there no easier means of reaching the 1000th mail directly?
- Ummmmm ... do you need to have all those messages in your Inbox? Can you move them to a subfolder (call it "Saved" or something like that) and just use your Inbox for stuff you need to take action on? That's how I do it. --MrWhipple 06:42, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
Yes! One of the best features of Yahoo! Mail is the ability to search your mails. Above the list of e-mails in your inbox there should be a box labeled search, here you can type in the name of the sender or even a phrase found in the e-mail you are looking for and it will bring you a list of all the matching e-mails.
[edit] Cleanup
I added the cleanup tag. The history section is written in the form of a personal story. I'm sorry that I don't have the time to rewrite it myself, but hopefully this tag will at least draw attention to it. kmccoy (talk) 10:00, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
- I will concur with the above user and add that this article really needs to updated to reflect previous "premium" e-mail services from Yahoo!. Having used Yahoo mail since 2000 and subscribing to its premium services a year later, I recall a time when yahoo had about two-three additional plans of varying capacities, like 25MB, 50MB, and 100MB. I will have to review my account information but I think I purchased the 25MB plan a few months before the "one-size-fits-all" 2GB plan. Hopefully someone with a better memory or reputable source can add/elaborate on this.--Kenn Caesius 21:22, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
The comparison with Gmail is 95% biased. Yahoo Mail lacks lots of features that Gmail has. And Gmail uses AJAX while Yahoo still not. Yahoo Mail certainly is not the best webmailer. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 05:46, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
- Agreed. Deleting the comparison unless someone can provide sources for the statistic that "the majority of Internet users still consider Yahoo Mail to be the premier webmail service"--Darkhunger 02:12, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] new anti spam action
I just saw while sending an email I had to enter a confirmation code. Is this new? And should it be added? Matt "AgentA" 03:25, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] add info on Unable to process request at this time -- error 999
Unable to process request at this time -- error 999
we need an article on errors, like this error that appears to be a bandwidth restrector.
Unable to process request at this time -- error 999 Unfortunately, we are unable to process your request at this time. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please try again later.
[edit] AOL competitor to Yahoo! Mail?
"Yahoo!'s major competitors include Gmail, AIM Mail, AOL, and Hotmail."
AIM Mail, Gmail and Hotmail are competitors to Yahoo! Mail, but is AOL a competitor? AIM Mail is provided by AOL, I understand.
Also, it shouldn't be "Yahoo!'s major competiors". It should be "Yahoo! Mail's major competitors".
If no one corrects this, I will do so. Please discuss here.
--J.L.W.S. The Special One 05:16, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
- I think AOL is definitely one of Yahoo! Mail's major competitors. So many people use AOL. Oh yeah, you can go ahead and change "Yahoo!'s major competiors" to "Yahoo! Mail's major competitors". —Mets501talk 01:35, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
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- OK, I will change it to "Yahoo! Mail's major competitors". However, AOL is not a webmail service. AIM Mail is. AOL may compete with Yahoo!, but not Yahoo! Mail. Do you see the difference?
- In addition, I have created Wikipedia:WikiProject_Yahoo! to encourage users to add the exclamation mark to Yahoo! in Yahoo!-related articles where neccesary. In the Yahoo! Mail article, there are 3 instances of the exclamation mark being omitted. I will add them. Please contribute to the WikiProject. Thanks. --J.L.W.S. The Special One 02:26, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Prepended
The article says:
- Sending a test email from a non-Yahoo! Mail account to a Yahoo! Mail account with the words "Mocha", "eval", "Javascript," and "expression" in a sentence resulted in the Yahoo! Mail filters prepending an "_" (underscore) to those words, resulting in "_Mocha", "_eval", "_Javascript" and "_expression". This prepending obviously removes the threat of the words acting as commands via the program's HTML function by rendering them as non-commands or unrecognizable commands.
- As of 2006-06-09, only the terms "expression" and "javascript" were prepended with an underscore ("_").
I tried sending email to a Yahoo mail account and the words expression weren't changed in any way.
Maybe i'm not testing it the right way, so i'll let the experts change it. --Amir E. Aharoni 07:14, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Number of registered email accounts
Is there any documentation about the number of registered email aaccoutns?
[edit] Unicode support (or lack thereof)
Does Yahoo Mail support Unicode? From my experience, no. I suppose it should be mentioned in this article. Of all people in the world, the majority can't stick with the so-called 'English' characters. Moreover, Yahoo doesn't even support extended ASCII charsets. Jancikotuc 14:29, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Unlimited?
No one ever can, or ever will offer unlimited storage. So, anyone who claims to do so is hiding the actual limits. Which is bad, and confusing for everyone. So, the actual limits should be documented in the article, when available.-69.87.194.251 22:53, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
Someone insisted on changing the article back so that it repeats the Yahoo marketing lies, as truth. (Without bothering to discuss the matter here.) Nothing is unlimited. If you believe in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, just go store 1000GB on your Yahoo mail account -- and then come back and tell us all how easy it was!-69.87.204.46 12:49, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
- Your personal views on whether or not email storage can be unlimited are irrelevant. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia of facts, not opinion. Yahoo has stated that they will be offering unlimited storage, so that is what will be written. Yes it is clear they cannot supply unlimited storage as they only have so many servers but it must certainly be more than 2GB. Until the unlimited storage is available and someone is around to test the limits, speculation will not deliver a reliable Wikipedia article. --A Cornish Pasty 14:44, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
