New Yahoo Web Mail is Fantastic!
I have been using Yahoo mail since 1999. And it just keeps getting better. But the New Yahoo Mail is the best webmail tool I’ve seen.
When I started using Yahoo Mail in 1999, I wanted a webmail tool that I could access from ANY computer and that allowed me to import my Netscape mail address book. Yahoo mail did all that…and it was FREE! Even though I loved all of the nice features of Netscape, Mozilla, and Thunderbird mail, I was willing to sacrafice those nice, interactive features for a mail tool that allowed me to access my email from any computer.
But all webmail tools at the time were pretty cumbersome. They worked like web applications and were missing all the nice features of a dedicated, local mail client like Thunderbird or Outlook. For example, webmail tools don’t allow you to drag and drop messages into folders, and many webmail tools, like Gmail, don’t even have folders.
Most webmail tools don’t let you use keyboard commands to interact with the mail tool for common functions like new email, check email, delete email, and save email. Instead, you have to click a checkbox or a button. This is a very cumbersome way to deal with these repetitive tasks.
The new Yahoo mail is different. It acts more like a dedicated mail client. For example, to start a new email, just click the letter “n” on your keyboard and a new mail tab appears. To delete an email, select it and click your Delete key. To check mail, click the letter “m” on your keyboard. To check all email accounts, click Shift + m.
If you want to move a bunch of emails to a folder, you have several choices: Control click multiple emails and drag them to a folder, or click the select box on each mail and then select a folder from the Move menu. That’s all there is to it.
What’s more, you can have several tabs open at the same time; for example, you can have an inbox tab, multiple new email tabs, and a search results tab.
And finally, for around $20 a year, you can get Yahoo Mail Plus. With Yahoo Mail Plus, you don’t see ANY ads. That alone is worth $20. But you get more. You can add all your other email accounts. No big deal, you say; you can do that with other webmail tools. Maybe so, but other tools don’t let you send email from those accounts; when you send an email, the from address is from your webmail account, not the extra account. The nice thing about Yahoo Plus Mail is that I can use one mail tool to manage several email accounts and I can send mail as if it came from any of those other accounts. Try doing that in YOUR webmail tool.
Give Yahoo’s new mail tool a test drive. It’s free and I’m sure you’ll be impressed.