Yahoo! Mail Blog, UK and Ireland

So, were you successful in getting the email name that you’ve always wanted? That’s great news!! Now, are you trying to decide how to let everyone know that you’ve got a terrific new email address? And maybe you’re wondering if you can move all your mail and contacts over to that new ymail or rocketmail account. Well have I got a tool for!!!

How can I let people know that I have a new email address?
Whether you are coming from hotmail (yuck), gmail (blech) or even another yahoo (hooray!) email account, we’ve got tool that automatically moves everything from your old email address to your new ymail, rocketmail and/or yahoo.co.uk email address. It couldn’t be easier.

A little while back, my colleagues and I created a video that shows just how easy it is. I’ve included it on this post. But before you hit the play button, I just want to point out a couple of small differences from when we made the video (and believe me they are small).
1. You now have a choice to move everything to @ymail.com and @rocketmail.com
2. You can no longer move calendar items.
3. It can take up to 24 hours to move everything over (so keep checking)

Just take a look at this video (or click here for a full screen version)…

See how easy that was? Check it out for yourself

If you that can’t place where you know the music from… It’s “Maybe Tomorrow” by Terry Bush the theme song from the TV series “The Littlest Hobo”

Happy Switching!
Andrew - Yahoo! Mail Team

Hot off the presses…. We’ve just added two new domains to the Yahoo! Mail family. Now you can get that same top-notch Yahoo! Mail experience but with “@ymail.com” or “@rocketmail.com”.

What that means is that you have more opportunity to get the email address that you’ve always wanted. I’m sure you might be happy with bob1123322@yahoo.co.uk, but wouldn’t you prefer just plain bobby@ymail.com? Well, now you have the chance to get the name that you want.

Just go to www.yahoo.co.uk/ymail and register your new email address. I’m going to get mine right now.

Happy registering!
Andrew – Yahoo! Mail Team

p.s. For you history buffs out there, Rocketmail was the creation of Four 11, the company that Yahoo! bought in 1997 that launched Yahoo! Mail.

Update: The upgrade went OK. Not without a hitch or two, so you may have experienced some strange behaviour this afternoon. If you find anything wrong with the blog, please post a comment on this post, and I’ll investigate.

Hi everyone. In order to patch some security vulnerablities on this blog, I’m going to perform some maintenance work tomorrow (19 Jun). There may be some time where the blog is down due to this upgrade. Fingers crossed it will only be for a short while, but I’ll have a “upgrade in progress” screen to let you know while it’s down.

Wish me luck!!

Happy emailing!
Andrew - Yahoo! Mail Team

Just a quickie (in more ways than one)…

We never stop reading your feedback and we couldn’t help notice that some of you were concerned about the speed Yahoo! Mail at times. We passed it onto our engineers, here’s what they did about it…

Installed *brand new hardware* with *double the performance memory* and *double the processing power*

…all of which mean a faster Yahoo! Mail for you. And please note, when we refer to “memory” we’re not talking about the storage space for messages (that’s unlimited, remember). We’re talking about the memory on the hardware at Yahoo! HQ. The more there is, the faster Yahoo! Mail can perform for you.

Here’s what the improvements look like in graphical form - Green is good!!!

The work’s just been completed so now you can tackle your email with even greater speed and efficiency than before.

And don’t worry, we’re not resting on our laurels - speed and performance are something we’re committed to optimising on an ongoing basis.

Happy emailing
Andrew - Yahoo! Mail Team

P.S. - I hope that you enjoyed this post. There’s lot’s of other great information on this blog, so make sure you come back often to read about all the latest updates, tips and useful information about Yahoo! Mail.

Update: The issue outlined below has been fixed by our engineers and has been rolled out to all mail users. If you get your mail from an external client (Outlook, Thunderbird, etc.) you should no longer experience this issue. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Some of you are reporting that you are getting the following error when trying to get your mail from external accounts: “Server XXX is busy. Another POP session may be active. Please try again later.”

Our engineers have investigated the issue and found the root cause of the problem. A fix will be rolling out shortly. When it has finished rolling out I will update this post to let you know. It takes a little while to get the fix out since it has to be pushed to so many different servers, so some of you may find the problem is fixed right away, while others may find it takes a bit longer.

Sorry you are experiencing the issue. You can always use the Web version until the issue is fully fixed.

Thanks,
Andrew - Yahoo! Mail Team