Ya-hah?

[filkertom]

Is it just me, or is Yahoo mail really screwed up the past couple of days? It doesn't want to let me into any of my folders, doesn't let me read anything... unless I right-click them into new tabs... if it feels like it. Frustrating.

What do you use for e-mail, and how's it working out for you? Remember to tell us your OS as well. I'm using Windows XP Home SP3, and Firefox 3.5.1 with about ten plug-ins.

ETA: I can tell you this much: It's something in Firefox. Opera (v9.64) gives me no trouble at all.

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[cassildra.livejournal.com]

I'm using Linux Xandros for the eee, and I love Gmail. :)

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Windows Vista, and I use Gmail. I use a couple of add-ons in Firefox to enhance the experience.

So far, no problems.

[stormsdotter.livejournal.com]

I have Windows XP at home, and Mac OS 10 at work. I use Firefox on both systems, and I just use gmail for my e-mail. I swear by gmail: it stores thousands of e-mails, I never have to worry about losing anything, and my "professional" gmail forwards straight to my private one.

[sdelmonte]

GMail is my primary e-mail service, and I like it. Much of my mail still routes through my old AOL account, though, and sometimes there are things from mailing lists I'm on that get stuck between AOL and GMail. Probably will slowly change every last setting to send to GMail, though I didn't have a problem with AOL in the day.

[wingus.livejournal.com]

Windows XP Professional, SP...3, I guess. Whatever the most recent stuff for it is. I use Thunderbird for my email, connected to my ISP-provided account and two GMail accounts.

[maiac.livejournal.com]

I have Windows XP SP2 (I'd heard scary things about SP3), with Internet Exploder 8 (home) and 7 (work). Yahoo mail is working just fine for me. I also use Gmail.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

So had I. When it first came out, it had a bunch of problems. Those seem to have been long fixed.

[bryanp.livejournal.com]

Having rolled SP3 to an awful lot of machines at work, the most common problem was the same problem SP2 had. If you tried to install it on a machine that had been gakked up with malware / spyware, Bad Things Happened.

[jss]

At home, I use the command-line elm on the (remote) NetBSD 3.1 box I've used for personal email since, um, 1994.

At work, I usually use Entourage 2008 on the Mac (10.5.6) to connect to the back-end Exchange servers. I occasionally use Outlook on the PC (XP) if I need to, and from home I connect to it using Outlook Web Access (OWA) in my web browser (usually Mozilla 1.7.12, occasionally Safari 3.2.1).

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

I had been using Thunderbird to read mail off our domain.. had been working fine.

Then our provider's mail server decided my incoming mail was coming from a spammer and started blocking all of it.

I've moved over to using Gmail to read mail, pullin in mail from several server into a single place. So Gmail is serving me well.

[anjala.livejournal.com]

Lemme see...At home, we use Microsoft XP, Mozilla Firefox and g-mail. At work, We have Windows 2007 and IE.

Hope that helps. :)

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

I have two machines, the desktop with XP SP3, and the laptop running Win7RC. I use Firefox 3.0.11 (3.5 kept eating all my RAM) on both, to access two main accounts (Gmail and my POP mail via Earthlink, generally via their webmail). Both run fine, for the most part (though the Earthlink webmail's been having some odd "this [check mail] link can't update your box" issues lately that they seem to think is a cookie issue).

Every so often I empty out the POP box with Thunderbird, and that's so far, so good.

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

I download into Thunderbird myself. And even so - SBCGlobal.net which runs off of Yahoo Servers has been a bit wonky the last few days. Must be a server problem, which means it should clear up soon. And I don't think it is anything you are doing.
When I read online from home, I use the AT&T skin on IE (My ID in Yahoo is Auntie+M, which I run on Firefox, but my e-mail addys are many, and AT&T on IE lets me keep Mail and my Yahoo ID separate).
Note - Just opened my IE and checked my e-mail accounts and encountered some problems there too. Again, I think it's a server problem.

[aiela.livejournal.com]

I've been using GMail exclusively since 2005 or so, and have never seen anything since that would get me to change.

(Vista 64 on the new home laptop. Firefox. No extensions.)

[palenoue.livejournal.com]

I'm on a mac, OS X, and use the standard Mail program that comes with it. Haven't had any problems with Apple's email and they do a very good job filtering out the spam, so never needed to try anything else. With my iPod Touch I can check it anywhere with wifi, which was the only reason I considered gmail.

Ya-hah

[kanemaker.livejournal.com]

Tom,I use the e-mail provided by my ISP and never have had a problem.It handles my Windows XP home just fine.

[dornbeast.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is. I've noticed that anything in the main pane is more likely to be unresponsive. Getting into your folders through the links on the left column is the best bet.

[bayushisan.livejournal.com]

I think we have vista, at least I'm pretty sure anyway.

I tend to use gmail for most stuff. Well that and Yahoo mail.

[tollermom]

When I got out of the hosting business at the beginning of this year and stopped running my own mailserver, I moved all my email to Google for Domains. Depending on which domain and which account we're talking about, I access some via POP, some via iMAP and occasionally hit some of them via the web.

Mac OS X 10.5.7, Entourage 12.2 for desktop mail, Firefox 3.current for webmail (with a variety of plugins, none of which are specifically for mail), or Apple's Mail from the iPhone. All work well, and I've found GMail's spam filters to be some of the best in the business.

[bryanp.livejournal.com]

I use a for-pay webmail service, Runbox (http://www.runbox.com). They're based in Norway. It's not free like gmail or yahoo, but with money comes actual customer service if I have problems.

Oh, Firefox 3.5.1 on XPSP3. The only addons I run are Adblock Plus and ForecastFox.

[mouser.livejournal.com]

GMail, mostly with FireFox; various plug-ins depending where I am. XPpro-SP3 usually.


Works great, love me long time!

[jacob-day.livejournal.com]

Yahoo's been fine with me, I'm on Chrome.

[raven-ap-morgan.livejournal.com]

Webmail is the bane of e-mail's existence.

My "personal" account is with AT&T, and all of my other accounts are my own domains, with their service administered by www.ixwebhosting.com. The only trouble I have is that occasionally the AT&T spam blocker is a bit too aggressive, so I have to go into the web-based spam folder and sift through that. Other than that, I have no trouble.

I download everything onto an Ubuntu Linux netbook, using Thunderbird.

Raven

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

The biggest issue with Yahoo is when you hvae a cellphone or PDA accessing it at the same time. Things get screwed up when two things want to access the same data at the same time. Otherwise, it has worked fine.

[randwolf.livejournal.com]

My main mail service is Panix ($10/mo), which is an old-line Unix company. I've also had good results with Gmail.

For clients, I've had good results with Thunderbird and Apple's Mail.app.

There are ways to download Yahoo's mail folders, but it takes some expertise--look for help with that.

[joecoustic.livejournal.com]

I have Vista and am using Firefox 3.0.12. And the newer version of Yahoo mail. I've had no problems the last few days - she says tempting fate.

[brmj.livejournal.com]

Most of my systems run Debian or Ubuntu GNU/Linux. I usually use Thunderbird on the graphical systems and Mutt on the command line only systems. I use gmail for my primary account, but have others with RIT and some of the websites I help run.

[valkyrwench.livejournal.com]

Vista, XP, and Mac OS X running Firefox, and I use Gmail. I don't remember when I *haven't* used Gmail, but I suppose there had to have been a time when I didn't. It generally runs really well on Firefox, whereas I know people have had problems with Yahoo Mail et al on Firefox.

[silentpheonix.livejournal.com]

Yahoo mail classic has been very slow accessing my inbox for the past week, two weeks maybe. I run Firefox 3.0.12 on XP with SP2.

[ororo.livejournal.com]

gmail and yahoo--yahoo I had to refresh a couple times yesterday, but it's working now I'm using OS X v10 something

[poltr1]

Another Gmail user here, using the IMAP settings. I reach it with both a desktop and a laptop running Windows XP SP3 and Thunderbird 2.0.0.22. (And when I boot up the laptop with Ubuntu, I'm also using Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 as well.)

Oh yeah. My current browser of choice? Firefox 3.0.12.

[vik_thor]

(hmmm… looks like my post didn't make it, trying again…)

Use Mac OS10.4.11, and the included Mail.app.
I use Gmail POP for 2 accounts, 1 IMAP, 1 Yahoo! POP account and 1 account from my domain,

I have been having quite a bit of problems with Yahoo! lately, both my POP account, and my Y! messenger account on Adium. It seems that Yahoo! will periodically change something that keeps other clients from working…

[hillarysherwood.livejournal.com]

I use Mac OS 10.4.11 and Firefox 3.0.12. I've been using Yahoo Classic Mail for my mail program. Recently it's been behaving itself (knock wood) but I have had problems accessing my Inbox from my folders and vise versa in the the past.

[dan-ad-nauseam.livejournal.com]

Firefox on the office computer has been doing some strange things the past few days after adding NoScript. Among other problems, it has a tendency to pop tabs onto new windows.

[smparadox.livejournal.com]

I use Gmail, primarily through Chrome on Windows Vista (I forget if it is up to SP 3 yet). I used to use primarily Firefox, but it got slower and slower and Chrome runs so nice and fast...

It works well. I don't even bother to use Thunderbird any more, and just read and manage directly in the web interface now.