Liam goes large…
September 14th, 2007
(11 votes, average: 4.27 out of 5)
Loading ...This time I’m not talking about unlimited storage. I’m talking about our mascot Liam – and boy he’s a big one. Think New York’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade big.
To celebrate the fact that we’re removing beta from Yahoo! Mail Beta, the team at Yahoo!’s campus in Sunnyvale celebrated with an enormous, inflatable Liam. Over 40 feet tall and able to float over tall buildings in a single bound, the celebration was meant to be as big as all the features we’ve been able to pack into the new Yahoo! Mail.
Consider these features:
- Unlimited storage
- Drag and drop
- Preview pane
- Select multiple messages
- Right-click
- Keyboard shortcuts
- And more….
Coming soon
The term “beta” will be removed from Yahoo! Mail Beta in a short while. We’ve all worked very hard to bring you the best mail product available, and will continue to work hard to keep it the best.
Why’s he called Liam?
Well, he’s actually based on a real person on the Yahoo! Mail team. But his name was chosen for a good reason. Can you guess it? Read it backwards…
Happy emailing
Andrew – Yahoo! Mail Beta Team (soon to be just Yahoo! Mail Team 
)
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9 Comments Add your own
1. Ash | September 14th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
Hi,
Where is folders in folders functionality? Is it too difficult to implement for your development engineers?
Ash
2. zoe | September 15th, 2007 at 10:37 am
and IMAP support?? come on guys? at least for ail plus…
3. Kev | September 15th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
Shame that your BT Openworld customers (like me!) cannot get the new mail beta. It is at least 10 months since I have seen the ”’Coming soon to a screen near you!”’ message. Still doesn’t look like it will be coming any sooner… Come on Yahoo , look after your BT customers too !!!!
4. David | September 15th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
Don’t rush the removal of Beta too quickly — there is still some way to go I think.
Half the Preference pages are the old style; the Calendar is years behind everything else; the Notepad is old too
although iMap access for us paying users would be nice too
Other than that I love it!
David
5. David | September 20th, 2007 at 10:24 am
Yes, I vote for iMap too
6. Angela | October 11th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
Go Liam! Some of my friends and I are simply fascinated by Liam, and we collect all those little animations of him. As for the removal of the beta… it could use some more work. But I do agree that it’s the best email out there! Keep up with the great work!
7. Matt Mawdsley | October 19th, 2007 at 11:33 am
Now that BETA has been removed from Yahoo! Mail, don’t forget to remove it from the little picture at the top right of the blog
8. fred.sawtell@talk21.com | October 29th, 2007 at 10:59 am
What a waste of time all this messing about which leaves me without any of my email and impossible to undertand the reason for putting loyal customers in a hopeless position without proper support.
I have no hope of being able to recieve my mail in my long standing email address and custome.
Telephoning help is a waste of time and expense. I do not think I will remain a BT cusdtomer for very much longer.
9. m armstrong | November 12th, 2007 at 11:01 am
no emails received or able to sed to australia can you tell me why
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