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Upgrade Coming to Yahoo Web Mail

By Ed Oswald, BetaNews

June 28, 2005, 11:47 AM

Yahoo said on Monday that a new beta version of its Web e-mail service would be launched in the next two months. The site revision adds technologies that the company gained from its purchase of Oddpost, such as drag and drop organization of mail, an instant preview pane, and upgraded search capabilities.

The beta version of the site will only be rolled out to a select group of testers. No target date for widespread release has been set as of yet, according to company officials. Yahoo, which is the top provider of web based e-mail in the United States, counts some 60 million unique users according to research firm comScore.

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By jupiter84

edited Nov 16, 2008 - 12:08 PM

to yahoo team;
please email me how to upgrade my yahoo mail to yahoo mail beta .
thnx

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By imendez

edited Aug 29, 2008 - 5:22 PM

please up grade my yahoo mail, thanks!

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By sweet_kaye

edited Jul 21, 2008 - 6:54 AM

Good day!
Please help me to upgrade my yahoo email.
Thanks a lot!

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By generas46

edited Jun 13, 2008 - 4:27 AM

I rely love yahoo mail.....
so pls I want to up grade my E-mail to the best pls pls
thank you very much to to all in yahoo....

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By wing32jmarc

edited May 25, 2008 - 11:49 PM

good morning! can you help me upgrade my yahoo mail. thanks..

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By stella84

posted May 13, 2008 - 8:14 AM

I want to upgrade my yahoo mail to beta please help.

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By stella84

edited May 13, 2008 - 8:12 AM

I want to upgrade my yahoo mail to beta please help.

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By dackz

edited Apr 30, 2008 - 10:26 AM

upgrade my yahoo classic to yahoo beta.. plz! tnx..

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By ailliemanalang

edited Mar 16, 2008 - 2:20 AM

upgrade my yahoo classic to yahoo beta

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By san

edited Feb 23, 2008 - 1:46 AM

I want upgrade my yahoo mail. what can i do pls help to me.

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By Imee Ganaden

edited Jan 18, 2008 - 10:10 PM

Please please! upgrade my yahoo mail to yahoo beta. Please help

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By daisy_correa27@yahoo.com

edited Dec 11, 2007 - 9:29 AM

i want to upgrade my yahoo mail to yahoo beta please help

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By fandi.ardianto

edited Dec 10, 2007 - 2:06 AM

Good Afternoon

I need Your Help, i have a problem with my yahoo mail. when i sign in to my yahoo mail beta there are always show "trouble logging in" and error in java. i already down load java but still a problem in loggin. now, what should i do ???

Thanks

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By moneylilflip

edited Nov 23, 2007 - 1:07 AM

I want to upgrade my yahoo mail to beta please help.

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By hemsjan

edited Nov 4, 2007 - 1:07 PM

i want to upgrade my yahoo mail to yahoo beta please help

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By inia001

posted Oct 13, 2007 - 1:16 AM

Thanks for u
I am now happy and i will be truthfully to u

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By inia001

edited Oct 13, 2007 - 1:03 AM

Hi
I want to upgrade my yahoo mail which is now classical to the new beta version
I need ur help
Please help me
Thanks

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By leigh ervin

edited Oct 12, 2007 - 7:41 AM

I have always had Beta mail and this am went to my system and my mail has changed to classic mail. How do I get the Beta back?

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By demoi34

edited Oct 2, 2007 - 9:12 AM

I would like to upgrade to beta mail, as I have classic. I just set up a yahoo account for a cousin of mine, and he got beta mail on default, how do I get beta mail other then signing up with a new user account? As I would like to have beta for demoi34.

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By Wj d]

edited Nov 19, 2006 - 5:40 AM

I HAD BETA MAIL ON MY COMPUTER BUT WENT ON A TRIP FOR TWO MONTHS AND AM NOW UNABLE TO RECEIVE MY MAIL IN BETA WHICH I PREFER. CAN U HELP ME??

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By bufecur

edited Apr 11, 2006 - 8:38 AM

hello
i am mahdi jabbari
i want upgrade my mail to mail beta version
please help me
thanks

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By dahri

posted Jun 29, 2005 - 12:50 AM

Outpost is a firewall

http://www.agnitum.com

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By Kramy

posted Jun 29, 2005 - 3:49 AM

That's what I was thinking..."what, have they branched into email too?"

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By thereasoner

edited Jun 28, 2005 - 1:37 PM

It's Oddpost, not Outpost.

http://www.oddpost.com/

[quote from the BetaNews article]
....that the company gained from its purchase of Outpost, such as drag and drop organization of mail....
[/quote]

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By subtitles

posted Jun 28, 2005 - 12:51 PM

It's just shameful that whenever they do a rewrite of their code, they *still* can't find the time to properly support Opera. Once things are set in stone, fine, it's difficult to change, but if they're changing things anyway, how difficult can it be to fire up Optool and check stuff out?

Optool: http://newblog.fallingbe.../05/optool_21_beta.html

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By deadmonkey

posted Jun 28, 2005 - 3:36 PM

I agree. Yahoo should support as many platforms as possible and it is things like leaving Opera (and Firefox for the advanced formatting features IIRC) out in the cold that will only hurt them in the long run.

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By horsecharles

posted Jun 29, 2005 - 12:16 PM

I concur re supporting varied platforms; and re Opera-- it's just so fast & gets along w/ windows so well-- both IE & Firefox are huge system hogs and/or memory leakers; in fact, i've had both of those freeze, while opera simultaneously keeps on running. Firefox i can then fix by removing most extensions, but what's the point of that..

And a bit further off-topic: i'd be curious of Yahoo's intentions with acquiree Dialpad-- if they're smart, they'll offer unlimited free & ad-supported voip, with free fax & voice mail going straight into their webmail inbox.

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