i have yahoo mail along with a lot of my friends and family... under mail options your buddy should have
"Compose messages as color and graphics" instead of
"Compose messages as plain text"
I have never had a problem with yahoo mail and think it is one of best web email out there...
I hope this solves the problem
]]>Also, even if he did use the Yahoo Web interface, my buddy says:
Not only is that just a web option, but the Yahoo interface says it's for IE 5.5+ exclusively. No thanks!! :) "
]]>On a slightly different note though, they've recently made some other changes. I used to use Yahoo for POP mail, but decided a while back that it was easier to use the web based interface. I used to get ticked off that I had to enter my password in the login screen all the time. That was bad enough, but now, about every 3rd time I go to Yahoo Mail, I have to enter my user name, password, AND some stupid confirmation thinger. Doesn't matter which browser you use, or whether cookies are enabled, etc.
They are driving me nuts! I am a long time Yahoo Mail user, but I am about to make the jump to Gmail here real soon!
:P
Try using www.snurl.com to shorten links. They have a little program you can add to your "Links" toolbar that eliminates the cutting ans pasting part. It opens a pop-up, and there's a button you click that automatically copies the short URL to your clipboard and closes the window.
I used to have SBC Yahoo (they suck too, btw, but that's a different story) as my ISP. I requested technical help via email. The auto-response I received was caught by the Yahoo! spam filter. (Duh?) The auto response advised me to be sure to add "xxxxxx@yahoo.com" to my address book so that my answer from tech support would not be trapped in the spam filter.
That's just wrong on so many levels....
]]>okay okay
first of all, yahoo gives you guys a free email service and then you guys spit on thier faces in return....i am pretty sure Yahoo doesnt want users like you shitting around thier email service..go get gmail which sucks even more (theres a reason why google still didnt make it public)...at least i get all my email in my inbox unlike gmail..
hotmail just plain sucks..
]]>I am experiencing consistant problems with Yahoo mail when pasting into word. More particularly html code into word. XP SP2 with Office 2003 Sp2, CPU processed up to 90% utilization. This function was working for a long time, now word freezes.
Through research I found many people have the same issue. We can perform a work around with Paste Special, then select rtf format. When I perform a past into WordPAD, it performs flawlessly. The problem is that word tries to access the source of the html code (Yahoo mail) as part of the paste function.
I have reloaded Word, repaired, disabled firewall, removed firewall, reinstalled, removed and checked for patches, turned off smart paste in word, regenerated normal.dot, repaired word, changed the view to normal/webview. Reinstalled again, removed all registry references to word, checked for viruses, spam, malware, Adaware, Sybot, Defender, Norton virus scan, Updated Adobe( ??) etc...
All of these actions did not change this problem of internet explorer paste to word crashes. Research tells me this is a long standing issue.
Here's some info if your interested:
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The other day I asked one of the online help reps WHY so much spam gets through with them, but yet with Hotmail or GMail I barey get any spam?!?!? The rep then broke into his "scripted" reply of "...you can create filters, blah, blah, blah".
When I told him I shouldn't have to create a filter every time some piece of spam gets through. Not to mention the fact you're only allowed 15 filters!!!!
They suck...
]]>The reading pane is tiny 'cuz they use up all that real estate with undiluted crap.
Of course, if you want a larger one, you have to pay them.
Die, Yahoo, die!
]]>1.) It would appear that the designers or developers responsible for it's management constantly fall asleep at the wheel. How many times have you logged (or tried to log) into Yahoo e-mail only to discover that you either cannot log into it or that you can hardly understand what is before you on your monitor due to some elementary mistake with the CSS?
2.) When I log into my e-mail account, I want nothing to do with the news, some bullshit "Connection Suggestions", weather, or ads. All I want is to see my e-mail. That's it. Why is this so hard to understand? I mean, am I alone in this desire?
3.) The entire page is constructed with little-to-no design / development skill. I could have had my 13 year-old brother make a better layout that would have downloaded faster.
4.) There have been multiple times where I had to send myself an e-mail with an attachment (because I had no storage media on hand) in order to keep a copy of whatever I was working on at the time. In doing this, you would expect that e-mail to be received in a matter of mere nanoseconds, right? Wrong. I have had times where it took an entire day and the attachment was nothing larger than a single page of Word document.
These above are my biggest complaints. I'm not entirely sure what Yahoo is experiencing internally, but from what I understand, there have been some shifting governance concerns that have been getting addressed. Maybe this is why their e-mail stinks right now?
]]>They are relentless in their drive to suck.
Their only goal in life is to suck longer and harder than anyone else on the planet.
Suck, yahoo, suck!
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