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]]> By: Kara Visits Zimbra! | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20070830/years-in-the-making-powerful-yahoo-mail-is-worth-the-wait/comment-page-1/#comment-978 Kara Visits Zimbra! | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:45:19 +0000 http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20070830/years-in-the-making-powerful-yahoo-mail-is-worth-the-wait/#comment-978 [...] its latest version of Yahoo Mail got strong reviews, such as this one from Walt Mossberg, Zimbra vaunts its effort at differentiation from the hyped Google offering forward more [...] [...] its latest version of Yahoo Mail got strong reviews, such as this one from Walt Mossberg, Zimbra vaunts its effort at differentiation from the hyped Google offering forward more [...]

]]> By: Robert Woods http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20070830/years-in-the-making-powerful-yahoo-mail-is-worth-the-wait/comment-page-1/#comment-851 Robert Woods Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:32:13 +0000 http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20070830/years-in-the-making-powerful-yahoo-mail-is-worth-the-wait/#comment-851 My experience with Yahoo Mail is that the spam filter is AWFUL! Gmail has been filtering mail for the last 10 months - 600-800 a DAY - and maybe 50 spams have gotten thru THE WHOLE TIME - Yahoo lets in dozens and dozens PER DAY! What's with the Yahoo technical staff? My experience with Yahoo Mail is that the spam filter is AWFUL!

Gmail has been filtering mail for the last 10 months – 600-800 a DAY – and maybe 50 spams have gotten thru THE WHOLE TIME – Yahoo lets in dozens and dozens PER DAY!

What’s with the Yahoo technical staff?

]]> By: Yahoo’s Brad Garlinghouse on the $350 Million Zimbra Deal | BoomTown | Kara Swisher | AllThingsD http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20070830/years-in-the-making-powerful-yahoo-mail-is-worth-the-wait/comment-page-1/#comment-521 Yahoo’s Brad Garlinghouse on the $350 Million Zimbra Deal | BoomTown | Kara Swisher | AllThingsD Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:56:25 +0000 http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20070830/years-in-the-making-powerful-yahoo-mail-is-worth-the-wait/#comment-521 [...] Both deals are signs that Yahoo understands it has to double down in areas it dominates clearly, like in display advertising and, of course, mail. Yahoo’s consumer mail product is a powerful one and its recent iteration has gotten a lot of kudos (like from Walt Mossberg here). [...] [...] Both deals are signs that Yahoo understands it has to double down in areas it dominates clearly, like in display advertising and, of course, mail. Yahoo’s consumer mail product is a powerful one and its recent iteration has gotten a lot of kudos (like from Walt Mossberg here). [...]

]]> By: Carl Liebold http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20070830/years-in-the-making-powerful-yahoo-mail-is-worth-the-wait/comment-page-1/#comment-422 Carl Liebold Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:41:38 +0000 http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20070830/years-in-the-making-powerful-yahoo-mail-is-worth-the-wait/#comment-422 Nirav, I'm not talking about a forwarding mechanism. And I'm not talking about the Y! native mailbox (xxx@yahoo.com). Forwarding to your Y! mailbox is not the same thing as checking your outside pop server with Y!. Gmail has a menu (look in settings / accounts / and in the "Get mail from other acounts" click on "history"). It will show you how often it has checked your outside pop mailbox. Y! will never automatically check your outside pop mailbox unless you ask it to do it by clicking on "check mail" and pull down to select the outside pop mailbox you want to check. Leave your Y! mail alone for a day and or two, and then when you go and manually check your mail, it has to download your 200 messages since yesterday: it takes forever. And if the spam checking is weak, it dumps far too many of the spam messages in you mailbox as well. It makes for a horrible experience when checking your email from a internet cafe in Sicily after spending two days travelling. Example: Say you work at Nirav.com. Your company hosts your email box: boss@nirav.com. You travel to Prague on business without your laptop. After the 14 hour trip plus two nights, lets say 30 hours, you find an internet kiosk and logon to Y! You try and use Y! mail to check the nirav.com pop server. You will find it is horrible and be using gmail the next day... C Nirav, I’m not talking about a forwarding mechanism. And I’m not talking about the Y! native mailbox (xxx@yahoo.com). Forwarding to your Y! mailbox is not the same thing as checking your outside pop server with Y!.
Gmail has a menu (look in settings / accounts / and in the “Get mail from other acounts” click on “history”). It will show you how often it has checked your outside pop mailbox.
Y! will never automatically check your outside pop mailbox unless you ask it to do it by clicking on “check mail” and pull down to select the outside pop mailbox you want to check. Leave your Y! mail alone for a day and or two, and then when you go and manually check your mail, it has to download your 200 messages since yesterday: it takes forever. And if the spam checking is weak, it dumps far too many of the spam messages in you mailbox as well. It makes for a horrible experience when checking your email from a internet cafe in Sicily after spending two days travelling. Example: Say you work at Nirav.com. Your company hosts your email box: boss@nirav.com. You travel to Prague on business without your laptop. After the 14 hour trip plus two nights, lets say 30 hours, you find an internet kiosk and logon to Y! You try and use Y! mail to check the nirav.com pop server. You will find it is horrible and be using gmail the next day…
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]]> By: Nirav Bhavsar http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20070830/years-in-the-making-powerful-yahoo-mail-is-worth-the-wait/comment-page-1/#comment-421 Nirav Bhavsar Wed, 05 Sep 2007 03:27:36 +0000 http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20070830/years-in-the-making-powerful-yahoo-mail-is-worth-the-wait/#comment-421 Carl, Just curious. How do you get to know that gmail checks emails every 30-40 mins.? Coz, when I log into Y! mail I do see forwarded emails (from my gmail) from afternoon already there. Now, what I don't know is whether Y! pulled it when I logged in or they were already there. Perhaps gmail is so fast that we don't realize they were pulled when we log in. Carl, Just curious. How do you get to know that gmail checks emails every 30-40 mins.? Coz, when I log into Y! mail I do see forwarded emails (from my gmail) from afternoon already there. Now, what I don’t know is whether Y! pulled it when I logged in or they were already there. Perhaps gmail is so fast that we don’t realize they were pulled when we log in.

]]> By: Nirav Bhavsar http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20070830/years-in-the-making-powerful-yahoo-mail-is-worth-the-wait/comment-page-1/#comment-420 Nirav Bhavsar Wed, 05 Sep 2007 03:02:03 +0000 http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20070830/years-in-the-making-powerful-yahoo-mail-is-worth-the-wait/#comment-420 Carl, I did see your original mail. Now, I am pulling emails from Gmail into my Y! Mail. So, instead of using Outlook to pull my emails from Y! and Gmail; I am pulling everything from Gmail into my yahoo. And, with yahoo Go; it automatically downloads on my WM phone. Works like a breeze for me. Thans again for the info. Carl,
I did see your original mail. Now, I am pulling emails from Gmail into my Y! Mail. So, instead of using Outlook to pull my emails from Y! and Gmail; I am pulling everything from Gmail into my yahoo. And, with yahoo Go; it automatically downloads on my WM phone. Works like a breeze for me. Thans again for the info.

]]> By: David Carlson http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20070830/years-in-the-making-powerful-yahoo-mail-is-worth-the-wait/comment-page-1/#comment-419 David Carlson Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:35:03 +0000 http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20070830/years-in-the-making-powerful-yahoo-mail-is-worth-the-wait/#comment-419 WOW! I was caught off guard by all the negative feedback re the latest YahooMail, which I have found to be just wonderful. I started with email when Netscape was 'born', and over the years have dabbled with most of the emerging email clients, sticking with Netscape until Mozilla Thunderbird came along (and with it the wonderful FireFox browser). I presently have a Gmail account, and use Thunderbird for outgoing emails where I need to Drag&Drop jpg, gif, and bmp files into the body of the message (Thunderbird automatically converts bmp to a compressed jpg). However, Y! has become my favorite for lots of reasons: unlimited storage; wonderful tabs feature; great search capability; very logical layout (GUI); first class support; drag & drop; auto spell correction; and so much more. I am a real fan of Google in general, so when Gmail first hit the street, I enthusiastically signed up for a gmail.com account, using it for miscellaneous work. I was very disappointed for various reasons. I do not have any experience with HotMail. So, FWIW, and IMNSHO, I find the latest YahooMail to be an excellent program -- agreeing with Walter Mossberg, and other professional reviewers -- who have rated Y! #1 amongst the online email programs. David Carlson Fresno CA WOW! I was caught off guard by all the negative feedback re the latest YahooMail, which I have found to be just wonderful.

I started with email when Netscape was ‘born’, and over the years have dabbled with most of the emerging email clients, sticking with Netscape until Mozilla Thunderbird came along (and with it the wonderful FireFox browser). I presently have a Gmail account, and use Thunderbird for outgoing emails where I need to Drag&Drop jpg, gif, and bmp files into the body of the message (Thunderbird automatically converts bmp to a compressed jpg).

However, Y! has become my favorite for lots of reasons: unlimited storage; wonderful tabs feature; great search capability; very logical layout (GUI); first class support; drag & drop; auto spell correction; and so much more.

I am a real fan of Google in general, so when Gmail first hit the street, I enthusiastically signed up for a gmail.com account, using it for miscellaneous work. I was very disappointed for various reasons. I do not have any experience with HotMail.

So, FWIW, and IMNSHO, I find the latest YahooMail to be an excellent program — agreeing with Walter Mossberg, and other professional reviewers — who have rated Y! #1 amongst the online email programs.

David Carlson
Fresno CA

]]> By: Kirit Sarvaiya http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20070830/years-in-the-making-powerful-yahoo-mail-is-worth-the-wait/comment-page-1/#comment-418 Kirit Sarvaiya Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:02:49 +0000 http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20070830/years-in-the-making-powerful-yahoo-mail-is-worth-the-wait/#comment-418 I usually like your opinions, but this is such a biased (for Yahoo!) article that you have written. You are clearly not objective, and are clearly just anti-Microsoft. The reason people stick to Yahoo! Mail Classic is because the new Yahoo! Mail is just something to abhor. Hotmail has all the benefits, and is really fast; the only thing inhibiting me (temporarily, I assure) is that my personal domain name is stuck with Yahoo! Mail and it's just a pain to figure out how to get out of their quagmire of Customer Service and understand how to migrate my domain name away to Hotmail. I usually like your opinions, but this is such a biased (for Yahoo!) article that you have written. You are clearly not objective, and are clearly just anti-Microsoft.
The reason people stick to Yahoo! Mail Classic is because the new Yahoo! Mail is just something to abhor.
Hotmail has all the benefits, and is really fast; the only thing inhibiting me (temporarily, I assure) is that my personal domain name is stuck with Yahoo! Mail and it’s just a pain to figure out how to get out of their quagmire of Customer Service and understand how to migrate my domain name away to Hotmail.

]]> By: btw2.net » “How Stuff Works” is a handy site http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20070830/years-in-the-making-powerful-yahoo-mail-is-worth-the-wait/comment-page-1/#comment-415 btw2.net » “How Stuff Works” is a handy site Mon, 03 Sep 2007 18:05:31 +0000 http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20070830/years-in-the-making-powerful-yahoo-mail-is-worth-the-wait/#comment-415 [...] Years in the Making, Powerful Yahoo Mail Is Worth the Wait Walter S. Mossberf, Wall Street Journal Complete with video report. [...] [...] Years in the Making, Powerful Yahoo Mail Is Worth the Wait Walter S. Mossberf, Wall Street Journal Complete with video report. [...]

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