Upgrade Coming to Yahoo Web Mail

by Ed Oswald

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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Dear Sir,
can you help me upgrade my yahoo mail. thanks..

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

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please up grade my yahoo mail, thanks!

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

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

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

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

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

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upgrade my yahoo classic to yahoo beta

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Outpost is a firewall

http://www.agnitum.com

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

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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....
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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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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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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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