Yahoo Mail Beta
I have been a loyal Yahoo Mail user for the last nine years and I was pleased to be part of Yahoo Mail's test sample for their new beta version of Yahoo Mail.
I have been using it for the last few weeks and it simply blows me away ! The interface is designed to resemble Outlook, with a preview pane, the ability to drag and drop emails onto folders and the right click commands on several parts of the interface.
Here is a screenshot ...
The interface is several light years ahead of GMail. It is striking to me how many "me-too" products Google has developed, most of which are a distant second in their respective markets - Mail, directions, messenger etc ... However, that's another separate topic.
A suggestion I gave the Yahoo guys is to add the ability to compose emails "offline". This is one of the things I love about Outlook - The ability to work offline and write emails which are saved and sent when you connect to the internet.
I wonder if Yahoo could develop a downloadable exe file that would save offline messages and run the local scripts necessary .... This would be an extremely useful addition and would be another step in the process of bridging the gap between web-based mail services and email clients such as Outlook.
I have been using it for the last few weeks and it simply blows me away ! The interface is designed to resemble Outlook, with a preview pane, the ability to drag and drop emails onto folders and the right click commands on several parts of the interface.
Here is a screenshot ...
The interface is several light years ahead of GMail. It is striking to me how many "me-too" products Google has developed, most of which are a distant second in their respective markets - Mail, directions, messenger etc ... However, that's another separate topic.
A suggestion I gave the Yahoo guys is to add the ability to compose emails "offline". This is one of the things I love about Outlook - The ability to work offline and write emails which are saved and sent when you connect to the internet.
I wonder if Yahoo could develop a downloadable exe file that would save offline messages and run the local scripts necessary .... This would be an extremely useful addition and would be another step in the process of bridging the gap between web-based mail services and email clients such as Outlook.
Comments
* Unicode (UTF-8) encoding for outgoing e-mails.
* Chat History getting saved automatically.
* No eye-straining ads with very very simple interface.
I believe that GMails can be drafted offline using Outlook Express. GMail has an auto-configuration tool for the same. Refer http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13276 for more details