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Web Mail 6.0 is near! - 07/14/08

From: Email Guy
Subject:       Web Mail 6.0 is near!
Date: July 14, 2008 12:45 PM
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Finally we're getting close to releasing the new and improved Web Mail interface, and some very nice new features based on your feedback.

Here's a sneak peek (click image to view full size):

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I'll be providing more details about which new features get included in the first round when we get close to the release date. The obvious change is a much more usable layout, with tasks on a toolbar at the top and a re-organized folder tree. There will be some other goodies too, so stay tuned. Some of what might be included is listed in this older post, when 6.0 was just a concept. We've refined it a bit since then.

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Discussion

Posted by: Brandon   |   July 18, 2008 3:00 PM    |   (1)

This looks great! I can't wait to use it.

Posted by: speed42   |   July 19, 2008 12:11 AM    |   (2)

I just checked my watch and it's already 2008. Any chance the update will include at least a mobile version if not a totally iPhone-specific version? How about IMAP? Please. Please. Please.

Posted by: Tanikaze   |   July 28, 2008 1:48 AM    |   (3)

Hope to see an increase in storage space real soon!

Posted by: Gramps   |   July 29, 2008 11:49 PM    |   (4)

Any chance of getting a better spell checker -- the one we have is VERY weak and very outdated. Also, how about more options for text style and color -- maybe background colors. Some simple directions on the formating features would be nice! All the "options' on the right hand site of the composing bar are totaly lost on me.

Posted by: David Hannibal   |   August 9, 2008 3:36 PM    |   (5)

Hi,
will this new release of web mail fix any address book import problems? I've been trying to import my addresses from the .csv files that I exported from Thunderbird, but the only fields that web mail imports into the address book are under the Contact section (Names, Nicknames, etc). No other information (including email!) seems to make it into the address book.

Is there a work around for this? I could reformat my .csv files if that is the problem. I want to set my spam filter to the highest setting, and I don't want to enter all my contacts in manually.

Thanks,
David

This may help.

Email Guy

Posted by: Dave Gillogly   |   August 11, 2008 10:04 AM    |   (6)

this computer (at my son's house) remembers both my email address and my password automatically. how can I make it disremember the password? I'm leaving town this p.m. s/dave

Those are saved by your browser. Click the form box to put your cursor in it, then press the down arrow key to show you all the saved entries. Then use the down arrow key to move the selection to the one you want to remove, and press Delete on IE, or Shift-Delete on Firefox. One of these will work for most other browsers. That deletes the saved entry, including the password. Next time you log in from that computer, the browser will ask you again if you want to save it or not.

Email Guy


Posted by: Ramblin' Granny   |   August 12, 2008 1:46 PM    |   (7)

Amazing. The new look is just what I was going to suggest. Having the sign out or off at the top right is the right place for it. Keep up the good work.
Nancy

Posted by: William D. Goodwin   |   August 18, 2008 6:14 PM    |   (8)

Has there been any effort to upgrade the anti-spamming function, to allow for prohibiting at the "." level, as in ".ru" ".it" etc, or even better, at the IP level -- more than 90% of the SPAM I receive is coming from "out of this country" when the source code is examined at the IP address level. I think I can speak for a large number of your customers when I say I am definitely NOT interested in ANY content that is coming in from the RIPE, APNIC, (and others) IP networks who manage (or better characterized as mismanage) a bulk of the SPAMMING sources -- WDG

Top level domain blocking is included in Web Mail 6.0. You can already block most domains at the second level. See the FAQ.

Email Guy


Posted by: Barb   |   September 4, 2008 7:02 PM    |   (9)

Please fix an ongoing problem with folders. For some time now, when I want to file email under a subfolder, I encounter a frustrating problem.

When scrolling through my list of folders to select the folder to more email into, the folder I am in and filing from is not listed in the heirarchy BUT all of the folders beneath the folder I am in and filing emails from are listed as if they are under a different folder. It is very confusing.

Posted by: Bob   |   September 9, 2008 2:53 PM    |   (10)

In the new release, please arrange to stop letting OBVIOUS spam get into my Suspect folder. I get 1 or 2 "Vi.ag.ra" spams a day and Earthlink needs to put up a filter against all this obvious junk. It clearly not "suspect" but rather is easily seen as spam.

(Third request)

Spam filtering will never catch 100%. If you only get 1 or 2 uncaught spam a day, that is pretty good. The subject line alone is not going to flag the message as spam, as words like Viagra can certainly be part of legitimate email, and often are, so that does not make it "obvious" spam. It looks obvious to a human, because we're a lot smarter than a computer filter. Spammers constantly find new ways to get around filtering and we constantly try to keep up. Realistically, if we are catching 80-90% of your spam, we're doing great. That's true of any email service. You can get that ratio by looking at the number of messages in your Known Spam folder over a couple of days, and compare that to the number that didn't go in there. For most users we're hitting 90%+ pretty consistently. Also know that there is a great deal more spam (double at least) that you never see in Known Spam because we have blocked the spammer's IP number entirely.

Email Guy


Posted by: Pam   |   September 9, 2008 6:25 PM    |   (11)

RESIZE - Please allow us to resize the Folder area to allow for more screen space on the right. Most of the time I do not need to know the exact name of my folders except the Inbox, therefore I would like to adjust the width of that folder area to allow for more visible readable email width on the right side of the page.

EMAIL STORAGE - Please Please Please provide unlimited space for our email on webmail for paying customers instead of the paltry 100MB we now have. Yahoo and Google and others provide unlimited for free.

SORT - When we Sort email messages alphabetically, can you please put links for categories like A-H, I-P, etc so we can click on the link to go to that section? Ditto for the numbers of messages 1-200, 201-400 etc. (Yes, I saw the workaround of editing the url)

Posted by: Rob S   |   September 20, 2008 10:15 PM    |   (12)

Any new updates? eta?

Also, I'd sure like to be able to use webmail from my mobile phone. Currently, I have to forward everything to gmail and use gmail's web browser. I wish I didn't have to make all of the content of all of my email subject to Google's scanners just to be able to check my mail from my phone!!

Also, being able to dynamically load images/html after seeing the message in text form would be great.

Posted by: rasmalai   |   September 27, 2008 3:32 PM    |   (13)

when will earthlink keep the promises it makes, e.g. strorage space etc.

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