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Mashable - The Social Media Guide: Ymail And Rocketmail? Sorry, Yahoo, But That’s Not Enough to Thwart Gmail

  • idowuojo · 2 months ago
    will like to sign up
  • EDIE GARDNER · 5 months ago
    I OPENED ANOTHER ACCOUNT UNDER YMAIL AND NOW I CAN NOT OPEN IT OR FIND IT.COULD YOU PLEASE HELP THANKS
  • tommy · 9 months ago
    SUP HOMEY
  • YDRIVE · 1 year ago
    Nice. Congratulations! :-)
  • Smilinmarty · 11 months ago
    When I need to get to my email from another computer i can never find the rocketmail login screen. This gets frustrating. I've looked everywhere where and cant find a freaking login for rocketmail.com. I've tried typing it in my Yahoo login page but it wont take it. I just may go back to Gmail
  • yayel · 11 months ago
    ymail and gmail are just great... you can always have both.

    With ymail you have add a lot of stuff to yahoo website just like music, news, videos and more....

    Gmail doesn't suck is a lot faster, efficient and very professional.
    I got a google phone and I can find everything I want just with a click

    Try igoogle.com and you'll see.

    Just get two accounts with two different domains and that's it.
  • rachel · 1 year ago
    very nice
  • bluebell_rose · 1 year ago
    I would like to say that I rather stick with gmail. I like their google docs which means I can work on my assignments on the go, Yahoo may be more widely used but don't forget, gmail only came out recently. And google allows you to see the different ips used to access your account, it's great for detecting if anyone is snooping in your account
  • erealmedia.com · 1 year ago
    Where is the link to login or register yMail account
  • ask · 1 year ago
    I like goggles applications like Google docs. I would like to see yahoo do that better than gmail but will never happen. The new yahoo interface just slows down my email retrievals more then anything. Google also has a chat feature that works better than yahoos.
  • Kaly · 1 year ago
    GMAIL SUCKS.
    IT´S SLOW, IT´S MESSY, IT GROUPS MAILS BY SUBJECT MESSING WITH THE DATES, AUUUGGHHH!!! I´M BACK TO YAHOO.
  • koutkarganesh · 1 year ago
    hi
  • vaibhav · 1 year ago
    Vaibhav- its nice but but when can we open name centre
  • Saddles For Sale · 3 months ago
    Wasn't yahoomail first?
  • coxy · 1 year ago
    I'm looking forward to being able to grab a new ymail.com domain - I only hope you can add it onto / combine the address with your current account - and not have to run the email addresses as two seperate accounts.
  • Palin Ningthoujam · 1 year ago
    If Yahoo and MSN could stop inserting ads on my email footers, I'd have tried them for sending mails to my professional contacts.
  • Sam · 1 year ago
    Yahoo has done away with the signature ads in the email footers. It's a big step forward IMO.
  • coxy · 1 year ago
    As of when? I still get them in my outgoing emails. But then, I am on Y! UK & Ireland
  • Daniel Richard | WE · 1 year ago
    I'm sticking with my Gmail. :)
  • Dusti · 1 year ago
    I'm Staying with gmail
  • eric · 9 months ago
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  • Sam · 1 year ago
    Hmmm...sounds a little biased in favor of Gmail. Do I sense a fanboy? Yahoo successfully trounced Gmail with unlimited storage, and I wish Gmail would catch up. You should at least admit that.

    "Yahoo Mail now offers unlimited storage - but Gmail is now killing them with features and great integration with other Google services."

    What features exactly are you referring to? Yes, Gmail has great features, but they haven't added anything significant in years and they are still in beta. Are you referring to "Snakey," perhaps? Give me a break.

    And "great integration with other Google services?" Gmail is integrated with Google services, sure. But they don't improve on anything Yahoo offers. Yahoo has a calendar (and I think they integrate it better in their mail client), notepad, etc. With their purchase of Zimbra, I'm sure it will only get better.

    Do I like Gmail? Yes. Does Gmail have some nice features? Of course. But I think you are really exaggerating when you say they are just blowing away the competition in features and storage. When they first launched they were innovative, but no longer. I, for one, would like to see gmail innovate again.

    http://socialpo.st/2008/06/18/dear-gmail/
  • Stan_Schroeder · 1 year ago
    I can't see how you can conclude that GMail hasn't "added anything significant in years".

    A very recent addition - perhaps aimed at advanced users, but still significant - was Gmail Labs. POP and IMAP support were also quite big in my opinion.

    Of course, you can find most of what Gmail offers in Yahoo mail. But the fact remains that Yahoo waited for Gmail to innovate and then followed suit, and now it feels like they're always playing second fiddle, even though they are the market leader in this field.
  • Sam · 1 year ago
    I think the biggest reason it seems Yahoo is playing second fiddle is because blogs like this either ignore the new features Yahoo adds, or put them down. For example, Yahoo just added a really cool slideshow feature to emails with photos. They also have integrated an RSS reader inside their actual mail client, among other things. As I mentioned, they bought Zimbra which probably means good things for the future.

    Yahoo adds new features quite regularly, Gmail doesn't. Does anybody write about when they do? No. All I'm saying is, give credit where credit is due. Gmail is good, and Yahoo is good. It's not like Yahoo is this awful email client and Gmail is just awesome. They both have their strengths and weaknesses, and I don't think it would hurt to acknowledge that. They are just different and appeal to different folks.
  • RS · 1 year ago
    Indeed. Google has some great products and innovates extremely well in some areas. But most of their changes aren't exactly revolutionary, just evolutionary (and even then, a lot of the features are already offered by their competitors.) But they get a ton of coverage and publicity presenting everything they do as ground-breaking mostly because they're a 'cool' brand right now. It's why I always try to put all the stories on Google and Apple on tech blogs in the appropriate real-world context. There's a certain fascination with those two companies among some geeks and bloggers which skews things out of whack much of the time.
  • duckworth · 1 year ago
    They can offer as many domains and features as they wan't but it still won't matter as I can use gmail with my own domain for free. I would never want to have my primary email address permanently bound to one provider.
  • Stan · 1 year ago
    At 6.8 GB free storage (and constantly growing), unlimited storage is really a non-issue for most Gmail users.

    However, it is not just email features that is makes Gmail so compelling. Here are a few: Google Docs. Google Sites. Google Reader. Google Notebook. And, for corporate users, Google Apps for Domains, which includes some great enterprise features in the back-end. These are FREE for educational institutions and non-profits. Sure, non-corporate end-users can link some of these services by setting up Google accounts and still use Yahoo, but having access to a wide range of secure, integrated services which are available for both an end-user and corporate environments is quite compelling. And best of all, there are none of those annoying display ads.

    You just have to try Gmail to see what a difference their approach to email is, and why so many people like it. Yahoo has a LOT of
    catching up to do.
  • steve · 1 year ago
    Yahoo has "a LOT of catching up to do"? I think it's the other way around. Forget about ever getting features like drag-and-drop and sorting; Gmail can't even be bothered with fixing the simple stuff, like their horrible contacts list. Instead they add trivial things like "Snakey."

    I'll give Google credit for one thing: their marketing. They've convinced an entire generation that you have to use Gmail to be one of the "cool kids," and that anyone who uses another service is an idiot.

    I have a Gmail account too, and the service definitely has some great features. But I got tired of waiting for Google to fix Gmail's biggest annoyances and I doubt they ever will.
  • daniel · 1 year ago
    MAIL.com rules...

    you can get your name@mail.com, email.com, usa.com, writeme.com and a lot of great other names through mail.com

    Why don't google or yahoo buy mail.com? Is it not the greatest mail/email name ever?
  • Jeff · 1 year ago
    Mail.com and email.com are indeed great domain names. However, Mail.com's interface sucks. I'm sorry, it just sucks. It's stuck in a time warp from 5-8 years ago. At least they did get rid of some of the ridiculously invasive advertising from a few years ago. It made using their service unbearable. You'd get a page blocking click-through ad on practically every page load, which there are a lot of since AJAX is nowhere to be found. It is possible to use your great email address and simply grab your email through POP and reading it elsewhere, except they charge a hefty fee for this. That has a hard time competing with Gmail's free POP (and even IMAP) access.
  • Simon Haynes · 1 year ago
    Hmm - I released a free app called yMail in 2003, which has been publicly available and frequently updated ever since. It's currently the #2 search result on Google.

    I wonder how long it'll be before Yahoo's lawyers send me a nastygram? They shouldn't, given I live in Australia and I was using the name long before they were, but you know how the big guy/little guy thing pans out.

    I only mention this because I usually get 50 hits a day to the yMail page, and today it's already 1500.
  • mike · 1 year ago
    Just to school everyone, Google is not winning the email business, Yahoo! is.

    Look at registered email addresses for both, and Yahoo! still triples that of Google.
  • Sam · 1 year ago
    @Simon The ymail domain was registered by Yahoo in 1999.
  • ron · 1 year ago
    I'm surprised Yahoo has a bigger mkt share. Will sign for a new email and try it out.
  • Ashley · 1 year ago
    The bottomline for me is that Yahoo does not give free POP access whereas gmail does.
    Also, Yahoo displays annoying image ads on the mail whereas gmail ads are not so annoying. Even those can be blocked using plugins available for firefox.
  • tex · 1 year ago
    Ashley- Try "YPOPs". Works for me using Outlook Express 6. http://ypopsemail.com/
  • hiddenmuse · 1 year ago
    Well, I'm trying to sign up for Rocketmail right now, but it keeps forwarding to the Yahoo.com email sign up page. Way to go, Yahoo!
  • Sandra · 1 year ago
    Signing up for YMail and Rocketmail are completely impossible right now... Just stick with GMail, and save the hassle, it just would of been nice to try it out, only if it worked, but that's Yahoo!
  • hiddenmuse · 1 year ago
    Well this is rich: There were some people commenting over on Yahoo's blog entry about the service not working, and now yahoo has deleted them all.

    Wow. Just wow.
  • Will · 1 year ago
    not up yet..
  • Google FanBoy · 1 year ago
    You serious? Gmail sucks. Stability issues...poor usability/design, and wow Google stopped unlimited free storage (Yahoo has that now).

    Oh and they are in beta (still!) --- you want trust you everyday communications to something in perptual beta? At least Yahoo gives an option of production or beta interfaces.

    Finally, GMAIL is horrible at spam. I have spam on gmail accounts I HAVE NEVER USED (except to register them).
  • Stan Shaw · 1 year ago
    I'm quite surprised by the fellow who complained about SPAM filtering on Gmail. In my experience, SPAM filtering is excellent. I cannot remember the last time I received a SPAM message in my inbox. HUNDREDS of SPAM messages are trapped in Gmail's spam filter, though, so it clearly works.

    As a precaution, I regularly check my SPAM folder for possible messages over the past several months. I think I'll stop doing that now. Not one message observed during this time time has been a legitimate message that was tagged as SPAM.

    Best regards,

    Stan
  • eric · 9 months ago
    google fanboy? more like google fagboy
  • DanJ · 8 months ago
    Please forgive me for replying to a terribly old comment. I have never once gotten a single piece of spam in my gmail account since 2006. I have also never gotten any falsely marked legitimate mail, either.
  • Sven Gali · 1 year ago
    No contest. It's been Gmail from day one, and everybody knows it. RIP Yahoo.
  • Devan · 1 year ago
    i 'm also like to be with my Gmail.
  • RadioLeg · 1 year ago
    In general I love Yahoo Mail. BUT, 2 big problems I have with them which is making me want to switch is: lack of IMAP, and their inability to complete their transition to the new Ajax based UI across all the additional areas of the Mail product. Notably, their calendar is terrible compared to the slickness of GMail's offering; add GMail's calendar sync and calendar subscription into the mix and Yahoo Mail is quickly losing all the "power users".... -r
  • jiri · 1 year ago
    I have been using Yahoo Mail since 1999 and i love it. They had big issue with new interface (it was dam slow and was crashing a lot), but now it's fast and clean and rocks. Being able to write 2 emails, chat with 3 people and still see my calendar at the same time is sometimes dam useful. Filter based search saved me many times.

    I pay $20/year for ad-free, clean iterface with pop access. Why do I pay? Nobody offers everything for free. Did you think GMAIL is ad-free? Well, it is not right? It scans your personal emails.
  • DanJ · 8 months ago
    I love conspiracy theories. You think Yahoo doesn't? *rollseyes*
  • keiichiroy · 1 year ago
    stupid ymail!!! it'll just make you mess around just to login.....very stupid...!!!

    and of course a lot of spams and a lot this and that before you can attach and send emails!!!

    unlike Gmail....
  • John Famosa · 1 year ago
    Yahoo sucks big time. I signed up for a few ymail addresses and was excited and all. Now I discover that most of us cannot even log into the ymail accounts we registered. And there is no way of contacting ymail support #$%@!!!
  • Manjunath · 1 year ago
    Gmail is one of the best email service with best spam filters and whats more you can get POP and IMAP for free so that you can configure it to outlook , outlook express or any email client and it is adv free it is exactly like my office mail.... why pay 20$ a year for yahoo when you can get same service for free?

    Regards,
    Man
    http://probedeep.blogspot.com/
  • eric · 1 year ago
    While I do have Gmail account, and as much as I want to like it, I can't. First deal breaker is the ugly, ugly interface. Second thing that kept me from using it as a primary account is that they scan the content of all your emails. That's not too far off from spying on you on a constant basis. You basically have to trust that a big profit-focused corporation will always be honest and have good intentions when they spy on you and want hold on to all your data....good luck with that~
  • back to gmail · 1 year ago
    rocketmail sucks i signed up and can't even get in my mail now back to gmail i go.
  • Rob · 1 year ago
    I had a Yahoo email account for over 8 years and a month ago ditched it, due to large amounts of spam, and moved to gmail and life has been sweet. I considered paying $20 for email with Yahoo just to improve the spam filter, but only idiots pay for email service. The gmail spam filter is FAR SUPERIOR to Yahoo's on its own, but does offer great configuration of blacklists. And they offer free POP/IMAP email (Yahoo charges for this) so its seamless with Mac Mail. Yahoo will soon be Microsoft and all Yahoo users will be sorry. Viva la gmail!!!
  • CaptainBob · 1 year ago
    Well I prefer Windows Live Mail and services *shot*
  • Van · 1 year ago
    Well...Yahoo! is doing a great job, the look, the design, the interface, everything's so cool, even the mail system is quite impressive...whereas Google lacks them...but that's not just it, Google is good too...some good features of Google are still persistent...they just need to get better.
  • DanJ · 8 months ago
    Haven't tried out gmail themes, eh?
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  • ravi · 1 year ago
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  • dan · 1 year ago
    are you paid by google?
  • yudibali · 1 year ago
    i stick with Gmail even Yahoo release a new services, it just to many hassle with Yahoo, and the most irritated me Yahoo Customer Service is suck!
  • usws · 1 year ago
    I can't stand mail organization in Gmail. It's like they're expecting you to just leave your junk all over cause you have so much space.
  • KHALLID MOHD · 1 year ago
    i think gmail better than yahoo becouse yahoo is too slow and so dirty in look in my opinion gmail is better than yahoo
    thanks!
  • kevin · 9 months ago
    ge
  • Matheuss_Lie · 8 months ago
    How to register my Bloger in rocketmail? ? ?
    If i use yahoo.com, i must sign in at yahoomail.
    If i use rocketmail, where are i must sign in. .
    When i sign in in rocketmail, always has some problem.
    Please help me and how to register my Blogger at adSence. .
    Please give me advence in indonesia language...
    Please help me....


    intro me . . .
  • lynn · 8 months ago
    looking for my e-mail on here and i cant fine it on here at all? it under lynnreitz@rocxketmail.com
  • Paul Akagu-jones · 8 months ago
    can i do sex?
  • Rayya · 8 months ago
    ¡Qué tan maravillosa cosa de hacer! ¡Son felices para este! Pero mejor dicho me pego con mi yahoo..
  • Wil Vill · 7 months ago
    yahoo mail is nothing compared to gmail's features. plus add on the labs.
  • ugo · 2 months ago
    Since rocketmail is now yahoomail, thats good but when i log into Rocketmail from address Bar it leads me to yahoomail.com, but when i log in my rocketmail ID and PASSWORD it does not open,it shows incorrect Email add. and pasword. WHY??? What will i do? please contact me on my yahoomail: ugochukwuc@yahoo.com