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March 2008

Wednesday, March 05, 2008

New Email Features

This past week, the email team added some great new features to the webmail and email service. A lot of these features came directly from requests that you made! I'm exceptionally pleased that the email team has been able to be so responsive to the needs of our customers.

  • You will no longer be prompted to confirm that they wish to logout. Apparently this was driving a lot of you understandably crazy, so the webmail will no longer second guess you.
  • Email messages with links will now be clickable. If someone sends you an email with an HTML link in it, the link will be clickable and the website that they want you to visit will load. This is a completely commonsense feature that we can't believe we missed in the first place.
  • You may now choose to block images in the message view pane. The choice is remembered across sessions through the use of a browser cookie. Within the spam folder, images are always blocked by default. This will make it a lot easier to hide from spammers more effectively, but at the same time, ensure that you will be able to see the real content that you want to see.
  • The link to webmail help is now displayed with a more universal question mark (?).
  • The mailbox quota indicator has been moved into the mail settings area.

If you have any questions about any of these changes, please let us know in the comments.

Also look for some more information about our customer service improvement plan later on this week.