Yahoo Mail has introduced long awaited “download all attachments” feature. I had blogged about this usability issue in late 2006, then Gmail had this feature already. Download all feature is really vital when you get more than 10 attachments in the mail. It allows you to download all attachments as one zip file, rather than downloading them one by one. Because, Yahoo Mail’s popup window that scans your file before the download, makes downloading x2 more difficult. (why won’t they scan it in the background? why popup? that’s another issue altogether).
Anyway it’s still nice to have this feature in Yahoo Mail. It’s better late then never, right?
So, just continue to point out problems and request new features from the sites that you use regularly. They are might be too big to respond to the requests quickly, but still, they are listening.
* Thanks to Daniel for pointing this out.
I wonder if you have noticed another problem with yahoo. I get mail in yahoo as well as in gmail accouonts and have redirected mail from the former to the latter. Attachments never get redirected from yahoo to gamil. I have to go to yahoo to read attachments. This is particularly so when the mail is from a member of a yahoo group to the group.
DRF, you mean forwarding? I think when you forward the mail attachments go just fine.
Oh wow! I’ve waited for that feature too to be on Yahoo Mail. Finally!
Overall I like Yahoo’s email service a lot. I have accounts with them Google and Hotmail and the one I use predominantly is Yahoo. I never really noticed the lack of the this feature, but then again I don’t receive a lot of attachments. My wife on the other hand will love this
This seems like a very interesting feature that they should have had in there from the start. Yahoo is in decline and there is a reason for that.
Yeah Yahoo is struggling to define itself, 2008 will be very important year for them.
Very cool! I just discovered this today. Oh man, after all those years of having people send me 10 pictures per e-mail message and then having to download them one by one… I stuck with Yahoo! Mail after all these years!
thanks anyway for that piece of information about yahoo. i sure never knew before now. i will have to give it a trial then.
nice feature but i’ve been saving files within my messages and suddenly i can’t download some bcoz of the anti virus. i do hope that we can have the choice to download it or not… ‘coz eventhough some of my files are infected i still needed those softwares… i hope you can give a solution for this
Does anyone know where and how to get this
new yahoo mail download? Does this yahoo have
a special name? This is the one I want but can’t seem to find the right download for it.
Is this better than the yahoo messenger 9?
burn, i think you are using the old yahoo mail. when you login to your mail, there should be a link to new interface. try that out, this feature is in the new interface.
What happens when a yahoo webmail customer receives two or more emails each with different versions of an attached file using the same name?
My experience so far with folks on Yahoo is that they keep downloading the FIRST copy they got, and the updates are simply lost. Does Yahoo have some idea that same name means same contents? Or are my Yahoo friends just yahoos who can’t download an update reliably?
gjx, by right yahoo shouldn’t interfere with your attachments – it doesn’t matter if they are the same file with different versions – they should leave them as it is and let you download whichever version you want.
this never happened to me though.