I was switched to the new Yahoo Mail, and it makes me want to find a new mail service.

In My Humble Opinion
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I’m an AT&T e-mail customer, which means I get my mail through Yahoo Mail if I want a web interface. I was switched to their new system today, and I’m not happy with it. So I’m looking for other options.

I could run a local mail client, which I’d end up setting up on my two home computers and my two work computers. I wouldn’t want to use Outlook, because I have that for work already. I could set up Thunderbird, or something else. Anyone have any recent experience with a non-Outlook e-mail client for Windows?

I could get rid of Yahoo Mail by ditching my AT&T address. Whatever I go to, I’d need a good reading/preview pane…then lots of other random features that would probably make me look picky. I’d like to stay away from Google - I have enough stuff running through them already, and would like some separation.
Anyone really happy with their web based e-mail?
Details about what I don’t like. This may seem petty to some people…but I spend a lot of time in e-mail, and I’d like this stuff to work smoothly for me.

I don’t like the way it’s breaking the list of e-mails into multiple pages - if I sort so that my new mail is at the end, I have to click an icon to get to the last page every time I switch mailboxes. So if I empty the trash and then go back to my inbox, it’s showing me the oldest messages, and I have to select something to get to the most recent. This is a bit ironic, since one of the big changes from the last time they did a new interface was to get RID of the page setup, and just give one long window of mail.

(And why DOES it switch to the trash folder when I empty it? By definition, there’s nothing there!)

The scroll bar no longer has arrows…so if I want to scroll looking for a recent message, I either have to jump by pages by clicking in the bar, or use the arrow keys.
Thanks for any thoughts…or just for letting me rant. :slight_smile:

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I’ve been disgusted with Yahoo mail for quite some time now, and every revision or upgrade they have put out over the past several years has only made be disgusteder and disgusteder. Since their last major revision (a year or so ago), I’ve stuck with their “Classic” version which was, y’know, actually sort of workable for all my needs, and it works fine even with JavaScript disabled (as I always run my browser). Except that it can’t do file attachments any more.

So I turn on JavaScript to do attachments. But OMG what a [insert Pit language here] PITA it is with JavaScript running!

Now, within the last month or so, they’ve put an announcement that there’s YANV (Yet Another New Version) coming and we all have to agree to new terms of service.

At this point, I’ve finally said F*** Yahoo and walked away. You hear that, Yahoo? Go [insert Pit language here] yourself!

That said, I have the same question as the OP. Is there a decent (and free?) web-based e-mail service available? And a reasonably simple one that can send and receive attachments, and doesn’t rely on JavaScript (let alone rely on megabytes of CPU-sucking JavaScript)? I’ve been using gmail, but even that doesn’t please me very much.

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Just set it up in Thunderbird. No biggie.

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They’ve been threatening me with that the last couple weeks. It hasn’t happened yet, but the clock is ticking. I already use Thunderbird for one email, and the ATT/Yahoo Classic mail for another. Can I run two copies of Thunderbird, each set up for different email?

ETA: I’ll drop this link here for opting out of targeted Ads.