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Yahoo Mail to get 'Minty' freshen-up

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If they're trying to compete with Gmail here... when do they plan to allow IMAP for free? That's a complete deal-maker for me, because I have a couple machines, some with multiple OSes, and no mail client happily reads + writes with another OS's version of itself (if I can even safely writable-mount the other drive's format), much less an entirely different application.

Their spam filter's what needs the most work. A faster and nicer interface would come next in priority, yes, but it was the torrent of spam that lost me.

I've used the internal beta of Minty and it's really nice. I'm not a Yahoo! Mail user but it's drastically faster then the current version (Candygram). It's also loads much faster than GMail (something the GMail team really needs to work on). It's heavy JavaScript but uses some progressive loading that makes it much snappier than it's predecessor.

Not sure if it's too late for Yahoo! Mail though. This update is long overdue.

How did you get access to the "internal" beta? :O

I'm an internal :). Employee.

I remember trying it out as an intern, but don't recall it being called "minty". Is this a new development?

Minty is new. They only released the internal testing recently.

I'm not a Yahoo! Mail user Not eating your own dog food eh? I don't blame you. I'm a gmail user, mainly for the better interface, spam filter, and easy integration with other Google products I use (Calendar, Maps, Voice, Android). We use Yahoo Small Business mail at work and it's painful to use. I end up just checking mail on my phone instead of the web interface. Things are counter-intuitive on Yahoo, such as having to actively enable saving sent email instead of having it on by default.

My main reasons are spam filter, imap support and inability to use my own domain.

Sorry, my bad. I interpreted "I'm not a Yahoo! Mail user" as "not Yahoo! employee." :|

Yahoo Mail has just gotten worse over the years and I finally switched to Gmail. I'd get "Error Code 14" a few times month. Search was constantly broken and you had to contact their tech support to get it reindexed. No HTTPS support (after logging-in). Can't send email through another mail server. Yahoo Mail has become like the Detroit car companies - they've fallen behind the competition.

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