Last week, on October 8th 2013, marked Yahoo Mail’s sweet 16, and to celebrate Yahoo released a brand new Mail experience on desktop, iOS, and Android devices. The new Yahoo Mail brings about some great new features – one of my favorite being the introduction of conversations – allowing you to view emails grouped in threads  and something Google’s Gmail has had for quiet a while.

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Continuing on with the usability changes, Yahoo has made a point to take all of the things you do all of the time like search, starring, and deleting and turning them into one-click actions that appear when you hover over an email. The new left-hand toolbar can also be collapsed allowing your inbox to stretch out.

Since it’s not a birthday without party favors, Yahoo is also making many features previously reserved for premium Mail Plus customers free. These include a wide range of awesome new features:

  • Disposable Addresses – Create a disposable email address when you don’t want to give out your primary address.
  • Filters – Use up to 200 filters to automatically sort incoming messages. That’s twice as many filters than you had before and it’s a great way to get a handle on your inbox.
  • Mail Forwarding – Automatically forward your email to another email account, even another Yahoo Mail address.
  • Offline Access with POP – You can download your Yahoo Mail messages using a desktop email application, such as Outlook, and then access them offline.

And if that wasn’t enough, they’re giving you a monstrous amount of storage, 1TB (that’s 1,000 GBs), so you have ample space for all your emails and attachments.

Now I haven’t made use of Yahoo Mail for quiet a while. To be honest I don’t really think I ever used it, but the 1TB of space alone is enough to make me consider going back. What are you’re thoughts on the new Yahoo Mail?

Published by Michael Boguslavskiy

Michael Boguslavskiy is a full-stack developer & online presence consultant based out of New York City. He's been offering freelance marketing & development services for over a decade. He currently manages Rapid Purple - and online webmaster resources center; and Media Explode - a full service marketing agency.

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