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.
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?