Yahoo To Update Mail Service

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday September 14, 2005 @11:37AM from the see-capitalism-is-a-good-thing dept.

tonyq writes "Yahoo! is beginning beta testing of a completely reworked UI for Yahoo! Mail that incorporates DHTML technologies. The web-based application resembles a desktop e-mail client. Features include message preview; drag-and-drop filing; the capability of quickly searching e-mail headers, body text and attachments; and the ability to view multiple e-mails at the same time in separate windows and scroll through all message headers in a folder rather than one page at a time. Other niceties are auto-complete, right-click menus and standard keyboard shortcuts. A user who got an early look has graciously posted screenshots. Yahoo is also taking signups on their what's new for Mail page."

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Re:yahoo's answer to gmail. by winkydink · 2005-09-14 11:43 · Score: 5, Informative

Yahoo doesn't need an answer to Gmail. They have an order of magnitude more users (63.3 mln vs 5.4 mln).

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Re:It looks impressive by Elwood+P+Dowd · 2005-09-14 11:56 · Score: 5, Informative

I lost you some where between "web-based mail" and "installed"
He installed it on his web host, smart guy.

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Re:GPG by MasterOfMagic · 2005-09-14 12:37 · Score: 5, Informative

The Hushmail service uses PGP and allows you to encrypt your messages with PGP and recieve PGP encrypted and signed messages. Be sure to pick a good passphrase!
Re:Compatibility? by Aimak · 2005-09-14 20:10 · Score: 5, Informative

Because it can be clearly read from one of the given links:

It works in both IE and Firefox (both the 1.0.x branch and 1.5 Beta).