Putting a flourish in your email…
July 24th, 2008
(38 votes, average: 4.18 out of 5)
Loading ...If you use the all-new version of Yahoo! Mail, then I’m sure you’ve come across the great new feature we’ve just added for when you compose a new email message (and it’s one that a lot of you have been asking for). If you don’t use the all-new Yahoo! Mail, then there may be a reason to switch now. What am I talking about? Well the new Yahoo! Mail stationery, of course.
From now on, when you compose a new email message, you’ll have the opportunity to add a special touch to your message. And an extra added bonus with the new stationery feature – there are no more ads to distract you when you compose your email.
We’ve added the ability for you to add a whole host of stationery designs to make your emails that much more special. To help you get the most out of the new stationery feature, I’ve put together a slide show that tells you a little more about how to use it. Just click the first image on the left, below…
Happy emailing!
Andrew – Yahoo! Mail Team
P.S. The stationery feature will be available free to all users that are using the new version of Yahoo Mail. If you are not seeing the possibility to add stationery to an email you might have to wait a short while before the feature is turned on for you. As with all of our feature releases, we do it in stages to make sure that it goes smoothly.
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1. Kiran13Xtreme | July 25th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Cheers Yahoo! Mail Team & Liam!
Thats why I keep on saying Yahoo! Mail is the best! because I did request this and here it is. They really do listen!
2. sadiewatts | July 25th, 2008 at 11:26 am
you always help me when i have a preblem thank you
3. Adrian | July 26th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
What I’d really like and am willing to pay for, is Yahoo! Mail over SSL. How likely is that?
Thanks,
Adrian.
4. jay | July 28th, 2008 at 1:23 am
great my girlfriend loved it !!!
5. Mark | July 28th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Great work Yahoo Mail UK
Could I make 2 requests for composing an e-mail?
As an Ex-Outlook user could you add the following buttons:
1) a button to indicate the mail’s importance i.e. Low,Normal or High where High is indicated by a red ! exclamation mark
2) The option to switch on a “read receipt” for individual mails - sometimes its useful to know when it was read.
Thanks
6. Nathan | July 28th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Hey,
Great that you’ve added stationery, and the updates to Mail are really cool, but what about Calendar and Notepad? When are they going to follow with the updates? And when they do get updated (which they need to, Yahoo!’s image is changing … ) can you include ICS subscription features, both for me to subscribe to calendars and others to subscribe to my calendar? That’s one update that’s becoming long overdue.
Oh, and make sure that some of the settings pages get a makeover soon too. Some of them are still using the Classic interface.
But excellent updates so far.
7. Nicola | July 28th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Do you have to sign up for Yahoo Mail Plus to get this?
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Hi Nicola,
You do not have to sign up for Mail Plus to get this feature. If you do not see the stationery when you compose new emails, just wait a short while (up to 1 week or so) and the feature will be turned on for you. As with all of our new features, we roll them out to our users gradually, so we can make sure that everything goes smoothly.
Hope that helps. (and sorry that you have to wait)
Andrew - Yahoo Mail Team
8. Derek Lamberty | July 28th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
That is great news as who needs ads
9. Judith | July 28th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Could you add he option to switch on a “read receipt” for individual mails - sometimes its useful to know when it was read. It would be so useful.
10. Shanto Mokhutshwane | July 29th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Cannot find a yahoo mail window that allows me to compose and send messages since i started to see a new yahoo mail window.
11. Annette Booth | July 29th, 2008 at 9:54 am
I’d like a My Attachments folder as it seems to be the only way I can get my attachments to open. Otherwise, it’s great!
12. zahra | July 29th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
i love it simply wonderful!!
13. Christine | July 29th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
As an ex Outlook user I would love to see a button that allows us to Insert pictures from our picture gallery as at the moment there doesnt seem to be a way of doing this.
Many thanks
Christine
14. ewan | July 29th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Its great but my all new yahoo mail has stopped working properly in firefox 3 and just starts flickering everywhere
15. Ieuan | July 29th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
It does not work, it says I have to pay like it did before. Gutting! Anyway, i must agree you add a lot of features!
16. Trauts | July 29th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
re Mark - message No. 5.
I definitely agree with Mark -if we could have the “read receipt” and “Important” mail buttons this would really be helpful.
17. rob | July 29th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Boy this is great I hated the advertisements keep slowing the whole thing down.. I have asked my friend in the U.S to see if she can get it.. Well done Yahoo and others take note this is how its meant to be!!
18. ali | July 30th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
i love it
19. Mirian | July 30th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
I agree with Mark who asked for these:
1) a button to indicate the mail’s importance i.e. Low,Normal or High where High is indicated by a red ! exclamation mark
2) The option to switch on a “read receipt” for individual mails - sometimes its useful to know when it was read.
20. Karl | July 31st, 2008 at 1:38 am
Re: Yahoo mail up-dates, How about including the option of receipt ‘notification/read’ of emails sent.
21. Akos | July 31st, 2008 at 7:34 am
I love this! It’s true, Yahoo really listens. More grease to your elbows Yahoo Team!
22. Liz | July 31st, 2008 at 7:46 am
Wow - this rocks - really love it and I can’t wait for the holidays to use all the Christmas stationery. Thanks
23. A.Farid Rahimi | July 31st, 2008 at 8:36 am
This is nice and attractive and I like it , thank you very much for your efforts to word developing such a nice and special communicator tools.
24. bitty | July 31st, 2008 at 10:01 am
WOW!!! this is so wicked!
Im loving the new stationary! so glad you’ve done it!” as i was looking at going to incredi mail so could have pictures and colours but now i dont have too! well don yahoo and liam!!
25. Sean | July 31st, 2008 at 12:10 pm
What about a custom stationery template where you can set-up logos, colours and background images ?
Do you think this might be something to add? Possibly pay for,
26. Hayes Tiger | July 31st, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Hi
Its great news, I sent a test email to hotmail but the background image did not show up and the identical background colour was only visible half of the page in the message reading panel for three line mail.
Yahoo rewarded me with golden inbox for being heavy user of yahoo mail that allows me to send 20mb attachment but sorry to say that feature is no use. When I send 20mb file to another yahoo or hotmail its simply returns back to me saying receiver inobx cannot accept 20mb atachemnt mail.
For 1 reason I like hotmail they allow up to 50 large size photos to attach with email to send to any email address.
Still my number one choice is Yahoo! Thanks for Yahoo UK and Team.
27. Jenny Roberts | July 31st, 2008 at 7:32 pm
life without ads is great; please keep it up!
28. Julie | August 3rd, 2008 at 12:30 pm
I would like a read receipt and an importance flag also. I am having to apply for jobs and a lot of them are email contact only, it is a worry that they are disappearing into the ether and you’re not sure if they have arrived.
An insert picture feature would be great too!
29. roddy | August 3rd, 2008 at 2:09 pm
like the stationery. my brother was confused when it appeared. he asked- what’s with all the colours??? I explained and he loved it!!!! Think you should put calender and memos on to home screen. It would help a whole bunch !!!! thanks xxx
30. maresa askew | August 3rd, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Hello everyone ive only just joined Yahoo
31. m.breheney | August 3rd, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Please stop unwanted and unrequested adverts, thanks
32. Cheryl Kinner | August 4th, 2008 at 10:30 am
I am trying to copy and paste a logo to use as a signature in my emails but it keeps saying there is an error when I try and save it. I want to include a logo but can’t see a way round it!! Can you help?
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Hi Cheryl,
You can have a logo in your signature, however you will have to link to it externally. This can be done if you create your signature using the Classic Version of Yahoo Mail. Switch to the Classic version, then go click “Mail Options”, then click Signature. Then you’ll have to use the “Pictures and Graphics” and view the HTML version to add a reference to your logo. This is a fairly technically advanced way to add a logo to your signature, so if the explanation above doesn’t sound clear, ask one of your “nerdy” friends for help.
Thanks,
Andrew - Yahoo Mail Team
33. margaret gilmore | August 4th, 2008 at 11:25 am
i am new to computers ,and i have lost my way.i use to be able to send e mails but i have forgotten how pluss the screne is full of addverts which is very confusing. im 71 and at the moment dont have any one to advise me. please help
34. Tolu | August 4th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Thanks guys, this is exactly what I asked for and you’ve given it. Hopefully I’ll be able to use this feature by the end of the week.
Yahoo is by far the best!
35. umar | August 4th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
I agree with Mark who asked for these:
1) a button to indicate the mail’s importance i.e. Low,Normal or High where High is indicated by a red ! exclamation mark
2) The option to switch on a “read receipt” for individual mails - sometimes its useful to know when it was read.
36. John | August 5th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
A read receipt for individual mails would be very useful indeed. I very nearly left Yahoo Mail when I discovered it didn’t have one
37. HAMEED | August 6th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
its coooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
38. Richard Prys | August 7th, 2008 at 12:19 am
I want to see my yahoo avatar when I check my email. My friend’s email shows his avatar, but he cannot explain how I can get to see mine. Is the problem because, somehow, I ended up with a US avatar?
39. Mill | August 8th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Thanks a lot. Just what I needed. I love the colours
40. Joy | August 9th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
How can I add my own stationery in the same way as the given ones?
41. Dave | August 11th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
This stationary is not very printer friendly, uses lots of extra ink. Can the recipient turn it of and just print good old black text on white paper? For recipients on dial up it’s a much larger file to download!
42. SHARKBAIT | August 13th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
need more stationary. like SPORTS!
43. Aaron Lee | August 16th, 2008 at 7:19 am
It is great timing when junk adverts can be stop. Yahoo…thinking ahead…three Tumbs UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
44. Thomas Monk | August 16th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Seems ok! I need to try it and be more convinced?
45. Tregor Tell | August 17th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
I hate it.
46. dave taylor | August 18th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
can you turn off!…my adverts as well…please…I got rid of the television beacause or them…im in my sixties and got everything I need…thanx
47. tahmina | August 18th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
hi.
i love it and it so rocks.
48. geoffrey thompson | August 19th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
thanks to you all…you are most certainly heading in the right direction
49. jules harris | August 19th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
The mail is great and the new version a lot faster, but what I find a bit annoying is that when I open my mail it does not automatically go to my inbox which for me is the most important. Is this poss?
50. Chris | August 19th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Are there anyway’s to send an email with Yahoo at a certain time ie: 9am but say have it stored on yahoo’s server to be delivered at 12PM?
51. M | August 20th, 2008 at 10:05 am
all this new stationery business is all very nice but how does one stop the @*$$”"**& ads that keep geting in the way from just recently?
They are a **$”@: nuisance
52. MONDAY VINCENT AUGUST 21th,2008 1:10 | August 21st, 2008 at 12:17 pm
I like yahoo email version it very fast for sending mails every country
53. Ieuan | August 22nd, 2008 at 6:33 am
this is popular! i am not surpised! yep, it now works. it is like being a plus user!!! (now just take all the adds away)
one thing which would be nice is a personalise the “Home” tab in Yahoo Mail
cant wait for next surpise!!! keep it up!!
54. Deuce | August 22nd, 2008 at 4:17 pm
It´s simply the best around.
55. Samantha | August 22nd, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Won’t use any other mail carriers…Yahoo is the best
56. SHAISTA | August 22nd, 2008 at 8:29 pm
I love it.It’s very helpful and cool.
57. callum | August 25th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Everytime I write an email the stationary automatically turns the writing purple, how do I stop this?
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Hi Callum,
All you need to do is to click the “T” button with the color palette at the top of your message. A whole bunch of colors will display, then just click black. The next time you start a new message the system will remember your choice and it will be in black.
Alternatively, you can select “Plain Text” and then all formatting will be thrown away and it will be just plain, black text.
Hope that helps,
Andrew
58. anona | August 27th, 2008 at 9:05 am
i clicked on the box that says no more ads while you are writing e-mails and just got another advert about yahoo with no option to sign out of the adverts while one is e-mailing.
i feel unhappy about this
59. Bart | August 27th, 2008 at 9:14 am
This new extension is wonderfull! Oh wait.. now in an instance I understead why the figure is called Liam - nice one
60. Shirley | August 30th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
But the ads - mostly for gambling - that fill a great chunk of my small screen while I’m trying to read mail take such an enormous amount of RAM the whole PC grinds to a halt.
I’ve written to you about this, but got no reply, of course.
I guess you must be earning gazzillions of dollars from the ads, so why would you bother listening to mere users.
My guess is that most of the ‘awe-struck admirers’ in the above posts are really the Yahoo marketing department. Who else would think it wonderful that a tiny percentage of the adverts we don’t like have been removed?
61. tichaona mundora | September 1st, 2008 at 12:46 pm
this is nice
62. Jackie Henson | September 1st, 2008 at 2:21 pm
How great no ads!
63. Jungle Jim | September 1st, 2008 at 3:57 pm
I’ve noticed my Mail has been a bit faster recently! Am i just imagining things? Anyway keep up the good work Andrew!
64. Fred Hall | September 1st, 2008 at 6:43 pm
I just did and you disappeared! New instead of Compose puzzled me at first.
On attaching, the return to the SEND email and the BAR is eratic. The top half of the BAR only is on view and the rotating circle never stops. I make my own mind up and send and it appears to be received normally. I think the viewing of a received attachment is fussy but that might be my Windows software, it is on VISTA Home and keeps having updates. It was poor to begin with but is now gradually working out.
Fred Hall
65. Jack | September 1st, 2008 at 7:06 pm
66. charlotte | September 2nd, 2008 at 8:27 pm
this was really helpful
thanks
=]
67. alice | September 3rd, 2008 at 5:19 am
ok,sinteti super
68. magz | September 4th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
thanxz lots of grea.t tips i am new user
69. sophie | September 4th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
it is really cool.is it possible to chat with someone that is not a yahoo user from my mail box and if yes how?
70. sue | September 5th, 2008 at 8:14 am
please will you allow me to write emails without an advert coming in and stopping me. It has become so bad that if it doesn’t stop I will go to another provider. how convenient that this can not ne transmitted.
71. Pras | September 5th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Thanks Thankls Thanks!!!
IT’s super Cool! ^__^
72. betty finnie | September 5th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Love the stationery selection. Makes e-mails much more interesting.Well done all at Yahoo.
73. mcroodi | September 7th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Thanks Yahoo UK, I love the new stationary feature!
Now… I just wish you would give us the ability to “read receipt” as in Outlook. I think this is an important feature in email and also the ability to show an email’s priority eg using the exclamation mark.
Really do miss those.
But anyway… keep up the good work!
74. Rhonda | September 7th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
Wow! Love it!! Yahoo rocks! Now there are EVEN MORE reasons why Yahoo is better than Hotmail lol
Thanks guys!!
75. Badar Chinnoy | September 8th, 2008 at 2:04 am
Delighted to know no more ads to distract me while I compose an email.
Would it be possible to bring all “Unread” mails to the top o the list?
76. YMailUser | September 9th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Contrary to comments on here, please don’t add a priority or a read receipt feature. There is nothing more annoying than somebody else telling you how important they think their email is. I set priority flags on my incoming emails myself. Generally the emails that come in with the highest priority are the least important
Read receipts are also completely pointless. I have always set my email clients to ignore these. If it was a guaranteed system and it worked fine, but it doesn’t.
With the amount of junk email and filtering systems in place, you can’t guarantee that an email will get to its destination. If your email is that important and you haven’t heard back, then email them again. If they still don’t get back to you, chase them up with a phone call. Bitter experience has shown me that email can no longer be totally relied on, as was the case a decade ago.
77. Rita Damper | September 10th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Love it, but since Firefox 3 I can no longer preview attached photos. Any ideas?????
78. veraharries | September 11th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
I would like to know where my file and edit header has gone?
vera
79. kerry | September 12th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Kicks Gmails a**!!!! I wish id signed up with yahoo! ages ago!
80. cindy | September 14th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
sorry dont know much abt computors just learning dont understand how it is better could you send a little more help before i download new version please many thanks
81. Hannah | September 29th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
The stationary:
Can I create my own and then upload it?
82. alison | September 30th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
New to ymail but cannot import my address book from blueyonder or .ac.uk accounts-s’frustrating.
83. Rose | September 30th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
wow, it is such a great feture. i love it,it brightens up my day!!!
lol!
84. selina | October 1st, 2008 at 8:36 am
that would be really great
85. alicia | October 6th, 2008 at 7:00 am
can i download the same stationery to microsoft outlook? if yes, can you teach me?
thanks.
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Hi Alicia,
Thanks for your comment. To use the stationery feature, you will have to use the Web version of Yahoo! Mail.
Thanks,
Andrew - Yahoo! Mail Team
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