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Yahoo Tries to Improve Your Inbox

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the can't-get-much-worse dept.

Jamie found a story about Yahoo's plans to improve your inbox by incorporating more information into the sorting. Simple thread order or chronological order ignores tons of information that might be available on social networking websites. That way your friends will be more prominently displayed. Automating this could beat the hell out of a hundred lines of procmail recipes.

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  1. Good old Oddpost Mail at work? by loadrunner · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.news.com/2100-1038_3-5266019.html

  2. Re:How about things that matter to users? by Malc · · Score: 4, Informative

    BTW - you can write to Yahoo's support about things like date formats. Ask them how to configure it to the standard where you live. They replied to me. If enough people do it, one hopes they'll pay attention and fix it as it will be cheaper than continuing to handle people's emails. Ok, maybe I'm deluded ;)

    http://help.yahoo.com/l/ca/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/contactus/

  3. Re:Suggestion by gardyloo · · Score: 3, Informative

    On my version (the "new" look), you just click on the ubiquitous paperclip icon, whereupon those emails with attachments float to the top. No searching necessary.

  4. Re:gmail by everphilski · · Score: 2, Informative

    even tho it would be a useful addition to gmail to be able to sort emails

    Well, you can fake it easily enough by having mail skip the inbox and using tags like folders. I do that with high-traffic mailing lists that I don't want cluttering my inbox.

  5. Re:Great, another billboard in my Email by gathas · · Score: 2, Informative

    Under options section "When I first visit mail" select "Show me my Inbox" instead of "Show Me the Home Tab". They picked the wrong default when they added this feature (I'm sure on purpose), but you can change it.