14 DAY TRIAL // Yahoo Mail is about to get a bit of an update focusing on usability. Some of the menu items will be changed or regrouped to make everything more intuitive and easier to find. It's not a major update or too much of a change but Yahoo decided to give users a heads-up before the new look goes live.
The first changes were made to some of the menu buttons in the email Inbox tab. Under the "Actions" drop-down menu, the items are being regrouped and reorganized, and several new entries are being introduced as well. A new item is also being introduced, "Show," which acts as a filter enabling you to see just the emails from your Contacts or your Connections.
Here are the exact changes to the Actions menu button:
· Select’ choices have been added to easily select all emails or just the ones that you can view in your Inbox. · Added ‘Sort by’ choices to give you better control on how you display the emails in your Inbox. · ‘Print Message’ is changing to ‘Print Email…’ · ‘Filter Messages Like This…’ changes to ‘Filter Emails Like This…’ · ‘Full Header’ will now be ‘View Full Header.’
The Options menu is also getting a big revamp:
· Added a menu item labeled ‘Show’ – here you can show or hide the preview pane, as well as some of the attribute columns of your email list (attachments, size and flag columns). · ‘Mail Options‘ is changing to ‘More Options…‘ – this is where you can enable/disable the Connection related features, set up filters, turn on your Vacation response and more. · ‘Add Application‘ is changing to ‘Add Application…‘ – this lets you add Apps like ‘Attach Large Files,’ ‘Edit Photos’ and many others. · ‘Mail Plus’ changes to ‘Mail Plus…’ and allows you to enjoy the benefits of Yahoo! Mail Plus · ‘Switch to Yahoo! Mail Classic’ is now just ‘Mail Classic…’ and lets you switch back to the Classic version of Yahoo! Mail.
Yahoo Mail is the most popular web mail service in the world with several hundred millions of users. With so many users affected, you can be sure that Yahoo doesn't make changes lightly. While the update may confuse some users at first, it's a compromise the company has to make as overall it should render everything clearer. You can read more about the changes in the official blog post.
