Yahoo! Mail Blog, UK and Ireland

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 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

Not too long ago, we celebrated the birthday of Yahoo! Mail. I still can’t believe that it’s already been 10 years. And as you read through that previous post, you’ll notice as time has passed, we’ve been improving and updating the Classic version of Yahoo! Mail in order to give you the best experience and most popular Web-mail in the world.

More changes on the way…
With the recent focus on all of the great features of the all-new Yahoo! Mail, quite a number of you have been asking “what’s the future of Yahoo! Mail Classic?”, and asking whether or not you’ll be forced to switch to the new version. Let me first say that we have no intention of retiring Yahoo! Mail Classic, and you will always have the choice of which version you want to use.

That being said, the Classic team has been working tirelessly to tune the technology behind Yahoo! Mail Classic as well as working on new features that will go a long way to - if I can use the term – ‘improve on a Classic’.

So what’s changing?
There’s a lot happening with Yahoo! Mail Classic. Some new features are being added, some changed and some removed. Over the years, we’ve been listening to your comments and what to you’ve been requesting as well as taking a look at some of the stuff you just don’t ever use. So I wanted to list here just some of the highlights that you’ll be seeing over the coming weeks:

- Auto-save to Draft - Yahoo! Mail Classic now automatically saves a copy of the message you’re working on in your Drafts folder in case you lose your internet connection or your computer malfunctions.
- Simpler uploading and downloading attachments - In most cases, downloading now requires just one click!
- One-Click Flagging - The new Flag column (just one column to the right of the check-boxes) makes it super easy to flag messages.
- Folder Renaming - Rename and delete your personal folders directly within the folder view.
- More Intuitive Names - References to “Address Book” have been changed to “Contacts”, and your “Bulk” folder will instead be called “Spam” (since that’s what it is).

There’s even more than what I’ve listed here. For the full list of changes, check out the “What’s different…” page within the help pages of the new Classic version.

When will these changes happen?
To be honest, some of you may already be seeing these new Classic Mail features. But most of you will see these changes arrive in Classic over the next few weeks. You can tell if you’ve got the updates by looking at the image above. If you see the features outlined in red, then you have the updates.

As always, happy emailing!!
Andrew – Yahoo! Mail Team