Yahoo Inc. is introducing new features Monday for its popular Web-based e-mail program, including software that allows computer users to type text messages on a keyboard and send them directly to someone's cell phone. The enhancements make it easier to send e-mail, instant messages or text messages from a single Web site - no need to launch or toggle between separate applications or devices. The features will be available to users in the United States, Canada, India and the Philippines; users will be able to click on a contact and then select whether to send that person an e-mail, instant message or text message
The most obvious beneficiaries will be parents, who will be able to use their keyboards to type messages sent to their children's cell phones - no thumb-twisting typing on a dial pad, said Yahoo Vice President John Kremer. "We're giving you the right way to connect at the right time with right person," said Kremer, whose two preteen sons vastly prefer text and instant messages to e-mail. The changes come amid fierce competition among providers of free, Web-based e-mail services. Yahoo and Microsoft Corp.'s Hotmail have long dominated the niche, but Google Inc.'s Gmail has grown quickly since its introduction in April 2004. Users who don't want the upgrades - or whose computers are too slow to handle them - can opt to remain with the current version, which Yahoo will call "Classic."
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The most obvious beneficiaries will be parents, who will be able to use their keyboards to type messages sent to their children's cell phones - no thumb-twisting typing on a dial pad, said Yahoo Vice President John Kremer. "We're giving you the right way to connect at the right time with right person," said Kremer, whose two preteen sons vastly prefer text and instant messages to e-mail. The changes come amid fierce competition among providers of free, Web-based e-mail services. Yahoo and Microsoft Corp.'s Hotmail have long dominated the niche, but Google Inc.'s Gmail has grown quickly since its introduction in April 2004. Users who don't want the upgrades - or whose computers are too slow to handle them - can opt to remain with the current version, which Yahoo will call "Classic."
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This is why I carry a few email addresses. One for billing/banking, one for general use, two for spam, and a couple of others for specific site administrating.
Hotmail is still apparently a big taget for spammers, but Hotmail filters have matured to be so good that spam no longer an issue on my Hotmail account.
I submit spam reports to both Yahoo/Hotmail, but my Yahoo account has become increasingly unusable nowadays.
This is why I carry a few email addresses. One for billing/banking, one for general use, two for spam, and a couple of others for specific site administrating.
I do the same thing. The funny thing is, I don't recall signing up for anything using that addy (I use mostly fake addresses when sighing up for things on-line).
It has been a feature for the Yahoo Mail beta for a few months now. It's not very elegantly done cause you get all the Junk mail downloaded as well. (I get over 500 a week.)
Just go to mail options and check "I don't want to receive any messages that SpamGuard thinks are spam".
interesting... doesnt work here keeps asking for username/password
interesting... doesnt work here keeps asking for username/password
It's not free for .com addresses (US). You need to have one of emails which are country specific to get POP3 access. It's first time I heard POP3 was free during beta test. I just ended my subscription a couple of days ago and it wasn't free as I recall as I had another .com address which did not allow me that functionality.
interesting... doesnt work here keeps asking for username/password
Servers:
pop.mail.yahoo.com
smtp.mail.yahoo.com
All server ports are at default. HTH
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