New layout, constant video ads on the side, my wife literally walks in just as I open it and there's all these bra ads and it looks like I'm looking at porn.

Fck this, been on yahoo since it started and that is that. Never has a software got so progressively worse than yahoo.

I hated it

Congratulations, they made it! They pissed of a a 20+ year user and a avid Yahoo evangelist. Not anymore.

The previous interface was just fine. Now the mobile experience is awful (I was using the PC version at my phone because the previous mobile layout is also awful).

1. Starting off with the most important: READ EMAILS ARE NOT MARKED AS READ. The number count doesn't change, the text doesn't become unbolded, and the dot remains! The only way to mark it as read is to click the dot! This is terrible programming. This has never been a problem with any Email service I've ever used in the past 20+ years. I tried all of their troubleshooting steps until they just said that they have a technical issue on their end, but it has been DAYS, and this hasn't been fixed. Unacceptable.

2. I have multiple mailboxes linked to Yahoo Mail, and they used to all show on the left, so I can check if there are new Emails at a glance. Now I have to go down to the hover icon to check, which, because of the aforementioned Read Mail issue, shows incorrect Unread mail numbers. There is still space in the left column; why remove it from there or remove the option to place them there?

3. The new colors are painful to look at, especially in dark mode. I get headaches from bright lights, so I prefer dark mode, but the white-on-grey color scheme is terrible and strains the eyes. If other people like it, that's fine, but at least allow us to choose the old themes that aren't terrible! Why force us to pick between two bad options when themes already existed and worked fine?

4. What is with these "achievements" and gamifying deleting emails? It's slowing me down, making me click away. Why would you introduce full-screen pop-ups to show achievements I don't care about and did not opt in to? Is this trying to be unprofessional? Is this trying to get in the way of productivity?

I just don't understand why Yahoo would try to break what isn't broken without giving users the options and controls to customize it as they would want, which would be an actual improvement. It feels like they're trying to lose users.

Luckily, there is an extension that helps it get back to the basic version, but it's still not ideal.

EDIT: Better Yahoo Extension with the Basic UI (Old UI doesn't work).

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about just how much of my inbox activity is being watched. I only recently found out that “tracking pixels” are buried inside so many marketing emails, and they don’t just record whether you opened it. They can log the exact time, what device I’m on, even a rough idea of where I was when I clicked.

The whole thing makes me hesitant to interact with emails at all. I understand why companies want engagement data, but from my side it feels like I’m being studied every time I check my mail. And if I click through, am I basically handing over even more about myself without realizing it?

I’ve started messing around with blockers that hide images or strip out those pixels, and I've also started using cloaked for temp mails but sometimes it feels like overkill. Part of me wonders if I’m just being paranoid, but another part feels like this should bother more people than it does. Do marketers really need all that information to do their jobs, or is it just the accepted standard now?

I hate the New yahoo layout!

Im extremely disappointed and furious that we cant go back to the original version despite everyone's requests in the past. pathetic. Someone please help me get back to the original format. I loved using yahoo for 20+ years. This is the death of me!!

Also I will be leaving YAhoo if they don't change. Any suggestions to new emails are welcome.

Thanks for hearing me out and I hope our requests reach the " corporate heavens"...

The new UI takes up a 3rd of the real estate on the right by introducing a useless panel I don't care about, list items are too large, and incoming emails take a long time to show up in the list. Why can't these companies NOT fix what's not broken?? Same with FaceCrook; it used to have a fast and responsive UI until the dolts who run it decided it would be a good idea to introduce a sluggish, memory-intensive UI that runs like crap. New and Improved my arse.

Unable to log into my gmx since yesterday around noon. Around midnight last night my partner was unable to login via the app or site as well. This message appears.

Service unavailable

The server is unreachable due to a technical error. Please try it again later. -7

Any others experiencing this? I contacted customer support but they said to wait 24 hours then contact again.

edit: they fixed the app after about a week or so but many work arounds were suggested in this thread! thx all!

I swear I deleted all my emails on a day. Then the next day it shows more emails from the previous days. It's like it holds back mail and waits to present to after I have deleted the other emails. It used to be a decent email system. As they have tried to improve it they just keep making it worse. Ive had a yahoo account from the beginning. I need to get a new platform.

Why do tech companies keep trying to improve their products when they only make them worse. Can anyone say Chrome browser?

Lately I’ve been getting a ridiculous amount of spam emails and texts. I went down a bit of a rabbit hole trying to figure out why, and it turns out a lot of it comes from old emails and phone numbers being sold by data brokers for email marketing purposes(whatever you call those)l. How is that even allowed? It feels insane that personal data can just be passed around like that without consent. Is there any way to actually stop it or at least see who’s selling my info?

Looking for the best email deliverability expert? Any suggestions? and what shall I look for? also, are they even much helpful?

Update: spoke to a deliverability consultant from www.emailwarmup.com/free-consultation to save on money cause I'm on budget right now. You guys are right, they're helpful as long as you "use" their advice.

"Probably" in the purely mathematical sense: the mod team removes far more posts to this sub than those that are allowed to remain.

Most posters think, "I have a question about my email; the name of the sub is, literally, 'email'; ergo, my question must be on-topic for the sub."

Most posters are wrong.

Read the title of the sub. If you're still not sure whether your post is on-topic, read the six rules. If you're STILL not sure, then it's probably not on topic, and you shouldn't post it.

The six rules are reproduced here for your convenience:

1. No requests for technical support.
   This is a sub for email marketing technology, deliverability, and best practices. It is not a technical support forum. You will get better results by requesting support from the provider of whatever it is that is giving you issues.

2. No "best alternative to Gmail" posts.
   This is a sub for email marketing technology, deliverability, and best practices. It's not a forum for the discussion of the relative merits of the various inbox providers or mail hosts.

3. No requests for assistance for recovering access to an individual e-mail account.
   This is a sub for email marketing technology, deliverability, and best practices. Also, see item 1., above.

4. No soliciting assistance from the community to abuse e-mail.
   This is a sub for email marketing technology, deliverability, and best practices. It is not your personal army for revenge on your pet spammer.

5. No shilling for email service providers or for bulk e-mail tools.
   This is a sub for email marketing technology, deliverability, and best practices. See also item 6., below.

6. No bare links to blog posts without any other comment or discussion.
   This is a sub for email marketing technology, deliverability, and best practices. It is not an advertising medium or a means to drive inbound traffic to your or to your company's blog or YouTube channel.

Most posters seem to think they should receive fair warning before their off-topic posts are removed or before they are banned for multiple violations of the rules.

Fine. This is the warning.

Thank you,

Your Friendly Neighborhood /r/email mod team.

My entire adult life since email was first invented, I've been behind. I was at work Inbox 0 only once in my life and that was the day I left one company for another. I've tried all the tricks that I know of -- email rules, categorizing, scanning tools. Blah blah. I have a mentor who never has more than one screen of emails in her box with about 1/2 of them being unread. I had a client once that is at Inbox 0 at the end of everyday. I sit in awe of these folks. How do people do this?

Looking for email providers for business use.

There's a saturated market whenever I do research.

We need something that supports multiple users and multiple domains, affordable and guaranteed delivery.

We've explored a few options (like Proton or FastMail etc) but found that they're all so expensive or don't quite provide what we require.

In short, we are a marketing and web design company and need to set up emails for our clients, and our current system does not guarantee the delivery of emails, which means we always fall back on using Gmail (@gmail.com looks unprofessional as a business).

Any support is much appreciated.

I've always managed 6 different email accounts through Gmail, both receiving and sending emails on their behalf. But apparently, this won't be possible anymore from 2027.

Basically, I would have to give out my Gmail address instead of the other email addresses and then always send emails using Gmail.

I'm not looking for solutions that physically download emails onto my computer.

The beauty of Gmail was exactly that: you could log in from any browser, access everything in one place, log out and that was it.

So, what are we supposed to do now??

Have a Yahoo email account from the very beginning. It's not my primary, but it has a TON of history I would like to preserve. GBs of it. But I HATE the new format. What is the best method to move all of this history to a new provider? I was going to purchase a Proton email account but I've been reading how many people have issues with vendors and such rejecting anything with a Proton email address. Thoughts? Help?

Looking for a email spam checker plugin that sits on your email interface to show whether the emails you're sending are most likely going to spam or inbox by doing routine automatic email deliverability tests.

So you don't have to manually do email deliverability tests each time out of stress before emailing a big prospect...

So I have launched several projects with email signups (free trials) or lead forms, and I'm receiving tons of invalid emails, not only malformed but also well-formed emails that are not "reachable". Is there any affordable (please) API to validate these kinds of emails? Any other way to solve it on our side? Worth it?

EDIT: End up adding https://mails.so/ to the signup process, seeing 96% less invalid emails there.

Why are my emails going to spam?

The contents of my emails are not even salesy.

I’ve also authenticated my email via SPF, DKIM, and DMARC.

I don't mass email or anything.

So what to do?

Solution that Ended up Working: using emailwarmup https://www.google.com/search?q=emailwarmup

So, I set up a little fake Gmail account. And I was wondering how to get emails from Nigerian princes wanting to transfer gold to me and whatever. I mainly just want to waste their time to prevent them from scamming vulnerable people. The more time with me is less time with a vulnerable person, right?

Sorry if this isn't the best sub. First time.

Having an SPF record is crucial to email deliverability. Not having an SPF record, or having an improperly set up SPF record, can cause email deliverability nightmares. For example improperly set SPF, or no SPF at all, is a primary reason that email will end up in the spam folder at Gmail. Here, in plain English, is everything you need to know about what needs to be in your SPF record, and, equally important, what needs to not be in your SPF record.

[Note: If you aren’t sure what an SPF record does, or generally are shaky about email authentication, please read our plain English explanation of SPF and other email authentication mechanisms.]

What All the Elements and Variables in an SPF Record Mean

As an example, here is our SPF record for ‘isipp.com’:

v=spf1 ip4:67.227.190.38 ip4:69.12.213.130 ip4:3.136.248.200 ip6:2600:1f16:ff:cb00::11 include:_spf.google.com include:send.aweber.com ~all

And here is what each element means:

‘v=spf1’ means that this is SPF version 1.

‘ip4’ means “Here are the IPv4 IP addresses that are authorized to send email on our behalf.”

‘ip6’ means “Here are the IPv6 IP addresses authorized to send email on our behalf.”

‘include’ is used with domains, typically the domains of email service providers and other third-parties who are authorized to send email on your behalf. In our example, we use Aweber to send out email ‘from’ isipp.com, so the inclusion of “include:send.aweber.com” tells the inbox providers and ISPs “ISIPP uses Aweber to send some email, so if you get email “from” isipp.com that is sent through Aweber, it’s legitimate and you should accept and deliver it.”

And this brings us to “all”, which is the element that causes the most confusion and delivery issues.

What Exactly Does ‘All’ Mean and Do in SPF?

In an SPF record “all” can be thought of as “all of the email you receive that isn’t from one of the IP addresses or domains that are listed in our SPF record.”

In other words, it’s instructions to inbox providers and ISPs about what they should do with any (all) email that they receive “from” you, but that isn’t coming from one of the IP addresses or sending platforms you have specifically listed and authorized in your SPF record.

The actual instruction (“here’s how to handle email that doesn’t come from an authorized sending source”) is communicated to email receivers by the symbol that prefaces the word “all”. These prefixes are referred to as “tags”, “operators” or “elements” (they all mean the same thing, just different people call them different things), and here is what they mean, again using ISIPP as an example:

A dash in front of the word ‘all’ (“-all”) means that any email that claims to come from isipp.com but that is not coming from one of the explicitly listed sources should be rejected. Period.

A tilde in front of the word ‘all’ (“~all”) tells email receivers to do what is known as a “softfail”. A soft fail means they should not reject the email, but that when they accept it they should give it stricter scrutiny and perhaps mark it as spam, or as bulk.

The above two classifications (-all means ‘reject’ and ~all means ‘softfail’) mean two very different things which often confuse email senders. If your email is rejected it means that it never even made it past the border of the receiving system’s server. Access denied.

If your email is softfailed it means that your email was accepted to get past the border of the receiving system, but that is all that it means. It does not mean that your email will be delivered to the inbox, and it is as l ikely as not to go into the spam folder, or maybe even disappear and not seem to be delivered anywhere at all. How a softfail is treated is entirely up to the inbox provider, ISP, or other receiver, and will also depend on many other factors as determined by the spam filtering algorithms at the receiving system.

These two operators (- and ~) are the most commonly used, and the only two we recommend using. Most email senders use the tilde (~) because they don’t want to risk their email not getting delivered at all, however senders who are concerned about their name being used for phishing (financial institutions, for example) will use the dash (-).

An easy way to remember the difference between the two is that a dash is a straight line, and it means that the email should be rejected straightaway. A tilde is a wavy or fuzzy line, and it means that it’s unclear (“fuzzy”) whether the email is really from you, so needs to be accepted and checked out further.

The other two operators are + and ?:

A plus sign in front of the word ‘all’ (“+all”) means “literally anyone can send email claiming to be us and you should accept it.”

A question mark in front of the word ‘all’ (“?all”) will be taken to mean that you have no SPF policy at all; you can think about it as the response that someone who has no idea what SPF is gives you when you ask about their SPF policy (“?”).

Don’t use either a +all or a ?all in your SPF. Ever. Just don’t do it.

Finally, Two Big SPF Gotchas of Which You Need to Be Aware

When our customers are having delivery issues the first place we look is their SPF records, for what we hope by now are obvious reasons. But there are a couple of things which can cause your SPF to fail besides the above, and we see them more often than you might think:

Having more than one SPF record

SPF records are definitely not a case where more is better. You must have one, and only one SPF record. If you have more than one SPF record they will both fail, and the email you send will be treated as having no SPF record at all, or worse.

Improperly or incorrectly including a domain

This one trips up so many senders. When you are including a domain (such as _spf.google.com and send.aweber.com in our example) it is critical that you only include the domain that the platform has set up for you to include in your SPF record. For example, Google has set up _spf.google.com specifically for those who send email through Google to include in their own SPF records. The reason that this is critical is that when an inbox provider checks your SPF record, they will also check the SPF records associated with the domains listed in your SPF record. For example, if we send email through Google “from” isipp.com, then the inbox provider who receives that email will check our SPF record, and then also check the SPF records associated with _spf.google.com. Why is this important? Because if your SPF record triggers more than 10 lookups, it will fail. Google has set up _spf.google.com to anticipate and accommodate that, and that’s why Google tells you to put _spf.google.com in your SPF record. If instead you simply put “google.com” in your SPF record, the receiving system checking your SPF record will be treated to a deep dive of hundreds or even thousands of Google’s SPF records, and after the first 10 your SPF will fail.

I show them something like this... This is a 2 person domain with just regular personal email volumes over the last 30 days. 20% of the traffic seem by reporting mailbox providers is legitimate and properly authenticated.

No domain is too small to be targeted with spoofing or phishing.