Yahoo to launch 100MB free e-mail

[arkayn]

I have my 100 MB mail box this morning.

The buttons seem to work fine in Firefox.

[j2603]

Originally Posted by mdnky

They may have some major issues with the new layout they made for the service...on the Mac platform at least. Was able to connect somewhat fine, but half the buttons don't work...specifically the Reply, Forward, Delete, and SPAM ones when viewing a message.

Hopefully that was just a connection issue or something and not their web dev practicing 'voodoo programming'.

Looks like it's a problem for M$ IE browser. Works fine in Safari. ALthough, they overwrote the aqua buttons

[JetwingX]

my SBC Yahoo account got upgraded to 100 MB and no ads (yay)

it seems a lot slower though...

and the reply/forward/spam buttons work for me...


also, here are some shortcuts

control-shift-C = Check for new mail
control-shift-P = Compose new mail
control-shift-F = Go to Folders
control-shift-S = Search
control-shift-H = Help

and yes i mean the control key and not the apple/command key

(those are the only ones i know about/ work)

[twister]

Speed, non working buttons, and other issues have to do with the fact that the DNS is screwed up. More Info

[JetwingX]

yay! it's not as slow now :-)

[nixgeek]

I noticed the nice surprise this morning. Here I was making good use of what little they had given me, only to find my 12% use go down to 1 % at 100 MB!

All I have to say is that it's about time..

[mdnky]

Originally Posted by j2603

Looks like it's a problem for M$ IE browser. Works fine in Safari. ALthough, they overwrote the aqua buttons

No, wasn't working in Safari for me...but did work with IE5 under VPC, go figure.

Seems to have fixed itself, I logged in about 40 mins ago and it worked alright.

Did hear something about a major DNS attack on Akamai's servers, who's a major player for Yahoo!. They were down for around an hour after 0900 EST today, which was around the time the problems were happening for me.

[adambyte]

Yay! I always liked the clean look of Yahoo mail, and the interface refinements and the space expansion makes this service only better. I would definitely recommend Yahoo for anyone searching for an email account.

My only complaint is Spam. Granted, Yahoo is smart enough to filter it into the "Spam" folder, but it's annoying that it's still there, and I still have to empty it. :-P

Then again, I should probably blame myself for putting my damn email address on my web site. bah.