Yahoo!7 Mail & Messenger Blog

Season up your Mail

December 10th, 2008 4 comments

With the holiday season upon us, kids finishing school, all that shopping to do, people preparing to go on holidays until the new year and the many other things that happen at this time of year; it’s only to be expected that things like Christmas cards will slip our minds. So do what I do, and send an e-mail to your friends and loved ones!

And e-mails don’t have to be boring, with the addition of Stationery, you can give your mail that bit of flair to make it almost as good as the card you might have sent, Mum will never know the difference!

If you are not too sure what Stationery is or how to use it, be sure to check out Will’s post over here.

Here’s a quick guide to the different Stationery options that you may like to use for your Christmas and holiday e-mails…

  Featured -> Liam: Party

  Abstract -> Green Fantasia

Abstract -> Kaleidoscopes

Flowers -> Orchids

Holidays and Events -> Christmas

Holidays and Events -> Happy Holidays

Holidays and Events -> Joy and Prosperity

Holidays and Events -> Snow (Blue)

Holidays and Events -> Stars (Blue)

The above selections are only a few of the different types of Stationery available in the All-New Mail. Why not go try it, then come back and let us know what your favourite is? Which reminds me, I better e-mail my Mum and Dad pronto!

Happy holiday e-mailing,
Kate – Yahoo!7 Mail Team

Experiencing issues with Y! Mail in Firefox 2?

November 27th, 2008 1 comment

Some of our Australian and New Zealand readers may find this post helpful if you have been experiencing problems with the All-New Mail using the Firefox 2 browser.

Ryan, Community Manager for Yahoo! Mail in the United States, posted the following on the Yahoo! Mail Blog:

We’ve received reports from some users that they are experiencing problems getting their inbox to load completely in the All-New Yahoo! Mail. Our engineers have been sleuthing around and discovered that if you are running Firefox 2.0.0.18, and have the RealPlayer Browser Record Plugin 1.0 installed as a browser add-on, you may run into this too.

Without getting too deep into the nitty-gritty, it seems that the plugin is preventing certain requests from reaching their intended destination within the browser. Fortunately there are two easy ways to resolve the problem.

1. Go to Tools > Add-ons, find RealPlayer plugin, Disable or Uninstall, restart Firefox.
2. Upgrade to Firefox 3.

Either of those options will do the trick.

Happy Emailing,
Kate – Yahoo!7 Mail Team

Chat within Mail

October 29th, 2008 208 comments

If a new and sleek look, enhanced image preview capabilities, drag-and-drop and tabs did not seduce you to switch, here’s one more reason for you to try the new Yahoo!7 Mail: we’ve integrated Yahoo!7 Messenger into the new Yahoo!7 Mail. That’s right, and you can chat to people on Windows Live™ Messenger too.

Ok, what’s all this then?
Well, basically speaking, your Messenger list loads within your mailbox and can have a live conversation with someone from within your Yahoo!7 Mail mailbox. You can talk this way with anyone who has a Yahoo!7 or Windows Live™ Messenger ID. That’s almost everyone isn’t it?

Here’s how!
When you log into your mailbox you will see, at the top of the window, a status message and a drop-down arrow. You will probably appear as “Offline”, if you never used this option:

Once you set your status to “Available” your Messenger list will start loading automatically above your folder list. You can select anyone on the list and start a conversation with them right from the comfort of your own Mailbox window. The conversation will open in a new tab and it will look like this:

One thing to note is that if you sign into chat in Mail you will get disconnected from the Messenger application immediately, as you cannot be connected to Messenger through 2 different ways at the same time. The same applies if you log into Messenger while connected to chat within Mail. I know this sounds confusing but I assure you it’s not a problem at all, as you will be warned with friendly messages like the one below if that’s the case:

Wait, there’s more!
We’ve added a couple of other new ways to start a chat. Yahoo!7 Mail is more than just email these days, so if you click on the arrow next to the “New” button (top left) you can choose “Chat” to open a chat window and go from there. Or, if you want to be really flash, you can use the keyboard shortcut. Just hit “c” and you’re off.

We hope you find this feature useful and interesting. Have a go and let us know what you think!

Happy chatting,
Sabrina – Yahoo!7 Mail Team

Tags: All-New Mail, chat